Ballinvoher

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinvoher, from 27 m² to 118,588 m² (11.86 ha, 29.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Ballinvoher 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.

• 22 Nov 2024Conditional

  the construction of a single storey dwelling house, including wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2461144

• 19 Feb 2020Conditional

  revisions to a previously granted permission, reference no. 16/443, which relates to a Protected Structure. Namely, a revised extension design, a revised site layout and associated works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20139

• 17 Feb 2020Conditional

  construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20119

• 11 Jun 2019Conditional

  modification of the permitted development reg. ref. 18/1266 (change of use of existing Carnegie Library to meeting room, single storey extension), the modifications include the addition of pitched roofs to the permitted extension and misc. other amendments

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19559

• 10 May 2019Conditional

  developing existing terrace of derelict buildings into 5 no. holiday homes and a management office, to install new waste treatment system, to form new entrance and site works and to consolidate and make sound the castle structure as a ruin. This is a Protected Structure 179 N3(1) and a Recorded Monument (RMP L1003-002)

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19465

• 25 Jan 2019Conditional

  erection of a resource classroom, ensuite and associated works to the rear of the existing school

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 1953

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  a change of use from library to meeting room, construction of an extension to rear of existing building, to include kitchen, toilets and boiler room and installation of a wastewater treatment system

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 181266

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Inner Shannon Estuary - South Shore 000435

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinvoher.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church, built in 1861. Comprising four-bay nave elevation with lower gabled chancel to east elevation and gable-fronted sacristy to south elevation. Pitched slate roof having cut limestone copings to gables, carved limestone Celtic cross finials to east elevation of chancel and south elevation of sacristy, cut limestone belcote with cast-iron bell and cut limestone Celtic cross finial to west elevation. Cut square-profile limestone chimneystack to sacristy. Rubble limestone walls having rusticated limestone quoins. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to west elevation. Paired pointed arch openings to south elevation of nave with dressed limestone surrounds and dividing mullions and leaded lights to windows. Pointed arch openings to nave and sacristy with cut limestone surrounds and sills and leaded lights to windows. Triple pointed arch openings with dressed limestone surrounds and sills and stained glass windows to east and west elevations. Pointed arch opening to south elevation with dressed limestone surround, cut limestone voussoirs, double-leaf timber battened door having shouldered timber architrave and pointed arch overlight. Shouldered square-headed opening to east elevation of sacristy with dressed limestone surround and timber battened door. Retains interior features including timber pews, timber raised cruck roof supports resting on cut limestone stops and timber confessional boxes to rear. Rubble stone boundary wall with rubble stone copings, terminating in pair of square-profile roughly-dressed limestone piers having dressed limestone caps. Double-leaf cast-iron gate.

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 Ballinvoher, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Ballinvoher, Fr. Russell Road6 sales

Name

Ballinvoher · Baile an Bhóthair

Area

1,490,366 m² (149.04 ha, 368.28 acres)

Civil parish

Iveruss, and its townlands

Barony

Kenry

Electoral division

Iveruss, the unit of the census

Census 2022

350 people lived in 125 households in the Iveruss electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyaglish, Ballycanauna, Beagh, Issane

Placenames

Ballinvoher 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.