Ballyrihy

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyrihy, from 291 m² to 595,722 m² (59.57 ha, 147.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyrihy in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 21 Aug 2025Conditional

  EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560383

• 22 Mar 2023Conditional

  A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23120

• 6 Apr 2020Conditional

  AN EXISTING REAR RESIDENTIAL EXTENSION TO THE DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. PERMISSION FOR THE DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SIDE EXTENSION, THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SINGLE STOREY RESIDENTIAL EXTENSIONS, COMPLETION OF INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND UPGRADING OF THE EXISTING WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ANY ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THIS IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20125

• 16 Mar 2020N/a

  AN EXISTING REAR RESIDENTIAL EXTENSION TO THE DWELLING HOUSE, PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT NEW SINGLE STOREY RESIDENTIAL EXTENSIONS, TO CARRY OUT INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND MODIFICATIONS TO OUR EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND TO UPGRADE THE EXISTING WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ANY ASSOCIATED WORKS. THE ABOVE PERMISSIONS INVOLVE WORKS TO A PROTECTED STRUCTURE

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2090

• 21 Dec 2018Conditional

  THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING AND PROVISION OF AN ENTRANCE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18594

• 30 Aug 2018Refused

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING, GARAGE AND PROVISION OF AN ENTRANCE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18376

• 20 Dec 2017Conditional

  THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING, GARAGE AND PROVISION OF AN ENTRANCE, WELL, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17503

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyrihy.

Recorded monuments

• OF045-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a low natural hillock in undulating countryside. Natural hillock which has been levelled to form a circular flat topped mound (H 1.7m; diam 52m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4m) and external fosse (Wth 5m) from N through E to S with no enclosing element elsewhere. Natural slope of hillock offers the site natural defence from S through W to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF045-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at W end of an E-W esker ridge in undulating countryside. Raised roughly circular area (diam 40m) defined by a scarp (H 2.5m), fosse (Wth 3m) and external bank (Wth 1.2m; ext. H 0.5m) which is only visible from SW through W to NE elsewhere it is destroyed. Modern farm buildings are built along the SE side of the site destroying both fosse and external bank. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Myrtlegrove, farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse built c.1820, with two-storey outbuilding to abutting east gable and single-storey extension to west. Pitched slate roof with ruled-and-lined rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledash, smooth rendered plinth and string courses with diamond pointed quoins to façade. Smooth rendered plinth and roughcast render to side and rear elevations. Replacement uPVC windows with painted sills. Stilted segmental-headed door opening with pebbledash to keystone, moulded stucco surround, panelled door and stained glass overlight and side lights. Two-storey roughcast rendered outbuilding to abutting east gable with corrugated-iron roof and timber battened door. Single-storey extension to west with concrete balustrade to parapet. Single-storey agricultural outbuilding to north with hipped corrugated-iron roof and roughcast rendered walls. Walled garden to north of outbuilding with random coursed walls, square-profile gate piers and segmental-headed carriage arch opening.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ballyrihy, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyrihy.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. 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.

No address of the register names Ballyrihy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Ballyrihy · Baile Riche

Area

4,191,213 m² (419.12 ha, 1,035.67 acres)

Civil parish

Dunkerrin, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Barna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

170 people lived in 62 households in the Barna electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydonagh, Barna, Clonlisk, Clonymohan, Corraclevin, Franckfort, Irishtown

Placenames

Ballyrihy on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. 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.