Ballincur
Ballincur is a townland in the civil parish of Rahan, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is Baile an Churraigh.
Parcel 284191
- Area
- 63,268 m² (6.33 ha, 15.63 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballincur
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1828 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 137.9 ha
- 341 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 27,478 m² (2.75 ha, 6.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballincur, from 1,785 m² to 286,069 m² (28.61 ha, 70.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballincur 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
31 Mar 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/ ETS, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2628
4 Nov 2024N/a
(A) A NEW PARTIALTWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH FOUR BEDROOMS OF 302.2SQ. (B) PARTIAL REFURBISHMENT OF DERELICT STONE STRUCTURE AS A CARPORT AND STORAGE SHED OF 26.6 SQ.M (C) A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE WITH ASSOCIATED CHANGE TO ROADSIDE BOUNDARY TREATMENT FOR SIGHTLINES. (D) AND A NEW WASTEWATER TREAMENT, PERCOLATION AREA, AND ANCILLARY LANDSCAPE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 24160
22 Feb 2023Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE DWELLING, SEPARATE GARAGE, A NEW ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY, NEW HEDGE AT BOUNDARY, NEW SEPTIC TANK, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, SOAKAWAYS, CONNECTION TO MAINS WATER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2363
8 Feb 2023N/a
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE DWELLING, SEPARATE GARAGE, A NEW ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY, NEW HEDGE AT BOUNDARY, NEW SEPTIC TANK, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, SOAKAWAYS, CONNECTION TO MAINS WATER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2345
11 Feb 2021Conditional
THE RE-USE AND REFURBISHMENT OF A DERELICT STONE STRUCTURE WITH ATTACHED NEW BUILD CONSTRUCTION TO PROVIDE FOR A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2161
25 Nov 2019Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19557
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballincur.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballincur.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballincur, about 1 in 5 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_1828 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballincur with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Ballincur · Baile an Churraigh
- Area
- 1,378,652 m² (137.87 ha, 340.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rahan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballycowan
- Electoral division
- Rahan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 753 people lived in 243 households in the Rahan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincloghan, Cappaloughan, Cornalaur, Derrycooly, Killaranny
- Placenames
- Ballincur 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.