Ballinagar

237 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinagar, from 3 m² to 276,466 m² (27.65 ha, 68.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

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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 Ballinagar.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinagar.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Catholic church, built in 1837, with four-bay nave, three-stage tower to west and sacristy to east. Destroyed by fire in February 2003. Located in Ballinagar village. Rendered walls with limestone quoins. Three-stage pinnacled tower with castellated parapet, louvered belfry and limestone string courses. Pointed-arched window openings with chamfered limestone reveals and remains of transitional switch tracery. Oculus to tower. Pointed-arched door openings to tower with limestone surround, label stops and a timber door.

• Farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, built c.1800, with lobby-entry plan. Hipped oaten straw roof. Low rendered chimneystacks. Rendered clay walls. Timber sash windows. Porch addition with flat concrete roof and rendered walls having timber panelled door and replacement timber window. Extension to rear with lean-to corrugated iron roof. Interior features retained include original hearth and jamb wall with two spy windows. Sited in farmyard at end of short avenue and with yard to front having single-storey outbuildings with pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs and rendered walls, one outbuilding having loft and segmental-headed door openings.

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 Ballinagar, 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

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

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 Ballinagar with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Ballinagar · Béal Átha na gCarr

Area

1,492,254 m² (149.23 ha, 368.74 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Geashill

Electoral division

Geashill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,659 people lived in 562 households in the Geashill electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycrumlin, Ballycue, Ballymooney, Cappanageeragh, Knockballyboy, Toberleheen

Placenames

Ballinagar 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.