# Balliver, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Gallen, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Baile Íomhair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,955,486 m² (195.55 ha, 483.21 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,345 m² (1.13 ha, 2.8 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Gallen, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/gallen.md - Barony: Garrycastle - Electoral division: Shannonharbour, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 363 people lived in 132 households in the Shannonharbour electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41567 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180087 - Centre: latitude 53.19665, longitude -7.924181 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balliver, from 2,177 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 823,603 m² (82.36 ha, 203.52 acres); 29 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 294191: 823,603 m² (82.36 ha, 203.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294191.md - Parcel 296819: 301,842 m² (30.18 ha, 74.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296819.md - Parcel 310057: 256,941 m² (25.69 ha, 63.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310057.md - Parcel 277509: 231,534 m² (23.15 ha, 57.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277509.md - Parcel 274533: 184,411 m² (18.44 ha, 45.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274533.md - Parcel 299843: 121,375 m² (12.14 ha, 29.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299843.md - Parcel 279684: 11,345 m² (1.13 ha, 2.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279684.md - Parcel 284134: 10,019 m² (1 ha, 2.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284134.md - Parcel 291064: 5,384 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291064.md - Parcel 312612: 4,332 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312612.md - Parcel 5500195: 4,322 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5500195.md - Parcel 307090: 3,995 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307090.md - Parcel 307489: 2,177 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307489.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Balliver in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Balliver in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Banagher (Domestic Dwelling, Occupied), site code 000567 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Balliver. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Balliver House, country house, 1720–1740, Regional interest, registry number 14922009, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14922009. Detached double-pile three-bay two-storey over basement country house, built c.1730 with pair of full-height bows to façade, walled garden to south-west and farmyard to south. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, conical roof to bows, roughcast rendered chimneystack and cast-iron and lead rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined render to façade, roughcast render to rear and side elevations, smooth rendered quoins. Timber sash windows with tooled stone sills. Large fixed pane window and paired sash window to ground floor of bows with tooled stone sills. Square-headed door opening with tooled limestone surround and glazed double doors under limestone portico with frieze and cornice supported by Doric columns and pilasters and limestone entrance platform. Timber and glazed porch to east elevation surmounting rendered plinth with limestone coping. Square-headed door opening with timber pilastered doorcase supporting frieze and cornice. Timber louvred double doors with overlight. Round-headed door opening to west elevation with tooled stone surround and spoked fanlight. Replacement timber door with brick infill, accessed by concrete steps. West elevation accessed through segmental-headed carriage arch. Walled garden to south-west with random coursed stone walls with some yellow brick to internal walls. Former farmyard to south with pitched slate roof with bellcote to south elevation and modern farm buildings. Entrance gates to north-west and south-east of house. Gates to south-east with tooled limestone plinth surmounted by cast-iron railings, square-profile gate piers and cast-iron gates. Gates to north-west with rendered gate piers and cast-iron gates. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Balliver, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1616, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1616.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/balliver.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/balliver.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/balliver.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Balliver with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Attinkee: https://everytownland.com/offaly/attinkee.md - Carrick: https://everytownland.com/offaly/carrick-180310.md - Coolfin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coolfin.md - Curraghlahan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/curraghlahan.md - Dernafanny: https://everytownland.com/offaly/dernafanny.md - Guernal: https://everytownland.com/offaly/guernal.md - Park: https://everytownland.com/offaly/park-181006.md - Timolin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/timolin.md A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/offaly/balliver - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/balliver