Ballinree

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinree, from 250 m² to 209,672 m² (20.97 ha, 51.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballinree 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.

• 25 Sept 2025Conditional

  Permission for a replacement dwelling house, new domestic garage, upgrades to the existing site entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated siteworks at Ballinree, Killyon, Birr, Co. Offaly. Permission is also being sought for a change of use of the existing dwelling into agricultural use.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560444

• 19 Sept 2025N/a

  replacement dwelling house, new domestic garage, upgrades to the existing site entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated siteworks at Ballinree, Killyon, Birr, Co. Offaly. Permission is also being sought for a change of use of the existing dwelling into agricultural use.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560431

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 Ballinree.

Recorded monuments

• OF035-018 Bawn
  Description

  According to O' Flanagan (1933, vol. 2, 19) St. Ciaran of Saiger founded a nunnery at Killiadhuin [Killyon] in the fifth century. According to local tradition the fortified house and bawn built by Nicholas Herbert in 1627 may have been built on site of the nunnery. Today all that remains are the wall footings of what appears to be a large walled area 52m N/S by 52m E/W with the fragmentary remains of a NW circular turret (H 3m; W T 0.8m) and the foundations of a SE turret with adjoining S wall (L 7m; H 3m; wall T 0.8m). Gun loops visible on S wall. Inside this courtyard area to the N are the grass covered wall footings of a long building (12m N-S by 33m E-W) orientated on an E/W axis. Overall this may be the site of a large defended fortified house (OF036-035002-) with bawn wall and circular corner towers. The presence of gun loops for defensive purposes would indicate a late medieval date for the site. Cooke (1875, 178) described the site as having a large square shaped gatehouse which opened onto a courtyard with small round flanking towers with gun loops visible. The remains represent the site of Killyon Manor which according to Cooke (1875, 182) was occupied by a person named Herbert (Harbart) in 1634. Possibly built near the site of 'Killyon Abbey' which as a result was marked on the six inch OS 6-inch map. A datestone (OF031-069----) from this castle was moved from here to the parish hall in the nearby village of Rath. Monument entered into the Register of Historic Monuments on the 16 December 1988. 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. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 4 January 2016

• OF035-018001 House - fortified house
  Description

  According to O' Flanagan (1933, vol. 2, 19) St. Ciaran of Saiger founded a nunnery at Killiadhuin [Killyon] in the fifth century. According to local tradition the fortified house and bawn built by Nicholas Herbert in 1627 may have been built on site of the nunnery. Today all that remains are the wall footings of what appears to be a large walled area 52m N/S by 52m E/W with the fragmentary remains of a NW circular turret (H 3m; W T 0.8m) and the foundations of a SE turret with adjoining S wall (L 7m; H 3m; wall T 0.8m). Gun loops visible on S wall. Inside this courtyard area to the N are the grass covered wall footings of a long building (12m N-S by 33m E-W) orientated on an E/W axis. Overall this may be the site of a large defended fortified house (OF036-035002-) with bawn wall and circular corner towers. The presence of gun loops for defensive purposes would indicate a late medieval date for the site. Cooke (1875, 178) described the site as having a large square shaped gatehouse which opened onto a courtyard with small round flanking towers with gun loops visible. The remains represent the site of Killyon Manor which according to Cooke (1875, 182) was occupied by a person named Herbert (Harbart) in 1634. Possibly built near the site of 'Killyon Abbey' which as a result was marked on the six inch OS 6-inch map. A datestone (OF031-069----) from this castle was moved from here to the parish hall in the nearby village of Rath. Monument entered into the Register of Historic Monuments on the 16 December 1988. Monitoring took place under licence no. 04E1197 of foundation trench excavation associated with the construction of a single-storey extension to a house at Ballinree, Killyon, Birr, Co. Offaly. The development is near Killyon Abbey (in ruins) (SMR OF036-035----). Nothing of archaeological significance was recorded during the monitoring. Ellen O'Carroll, The Archaeology Company, 17 Castle Street, Dalkey, Co. Dublin. 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. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 4 January 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballinree with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Ballinree · Baile an Fhraoigh

Area

1,800,119 m² (180.01 ha, 444.82 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcullen, and its townlands

Barony

Eglish

Electoral division

Killyon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killyon electoral division: 276 people in 95 households; 92% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coole, Fortel, Killaun, Killyon, Kilmaine, Rathgibbon South, Rathure South

Placenames

Ballinree 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.