Ballinrahin

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinrahin, from 1,971 m² to 121,740 m² (12.17 ha, 30.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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 Ballinrahin 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.

• 14 Jul 2025Conditional

  extend existing hay shed by constructing 1- span to the North and a 4-span lean-to extension to the South and all associated and necessary site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560423

• 10 Jul 2025N/a

  extend existing hay shed by constructing 1- span to the North and a 4-span lean-to extension to the South and all associated and necessary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560415

• 8 Jul 2025N/a

  extend existing hay shed by constructing 1- span to the North and a 4-span lean-to extension to the South and all associated and necessary site works at

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560410

• 3 May 2023Conditional

  retain concrete base for use as a hard standing for the storage of silage/haylage bales, site entrance and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 23135

• 20 Feb 2023Conditional

  retain the cattle house with slatted underground tank, feed passage, straw bedded area, associated walled dungsted and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2354

• 28 Nov 2022N/a

  to retain cattle house with slatted underground tank, feed passage, straw bedded area, associated walled dungstead and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 22722

• 26 Sept 2022N/a

  to retain cattle house with slatted underground tank, feed passage, straw bedded area, associated walled dungstead and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22595

• 18 Sept 2019Conditional

  construct an agricultural fodder shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19523

• 18 Apr 2019Conditional

  construct a one and a half storey dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19222

• 28 Feb 2019N/a

  construct a one and a half storey dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19124

• 19 Apr 2017Conditional

  construct a one and a half storey dwelling house with an attached garage, septic tank, percolation area, stables, dungstead and effluent tank, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17192

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 Ballinrahin.

Recorded monuments

• LA032-011 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an irregular enclosure (max. dims. c. 90m NW-SE, 80m N-S). Situated in gently undulating countryside. No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinrahin.

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 Ballinrahin, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2357 (ZIP).

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 Ballinrahin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Ballinrahin · Baile an Raithin

Area

827,967 m² (82.8 ha, 204.6 acres)

Civil parish

Killabban, and its townlands

Barony

Slievemargy

Electoral division

Ballickmoyler, the unit of the census

Census 2022

848 people lived in 296 households in the Ballickmoyler electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cooperhill Demesne, Killenny, Rathtillig, Rossena, Rosstillegane

Placenames

Ballinrahin 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.