Ballinree

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinree, from 340 m² to 244,768 m² (24.48 ha, 60.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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.

• G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Birr Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Offaly · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 31 Oct 2025Conditional

  the installation of external lighting and associated site works along the walking track previously granted permission under Planning Ref: 2360093

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560529

• 24 Oct 2025N/a

  the installation of external lighting and associated site works for the walking track previously granted permission under Planning Ref: 2360093

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560514

• 15 May 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new spectator stand, a new turnstile block and all associated site development works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560175

• 1 Sept 2023Conditional

  (A)a new grass Camogie pitch complete with surrounding fence, 2no. new dugouts, 1no. new ball stop and floodlights,(B)1no. new ball wall with fencing and floodlights, (C)new walking track to perimeter,and all associated site development works, including a maintenance road, to complete the development. The overall development is located to the rear (east) of the existing Crinkill GAA pitch and will be accessed via the existing entrance and car park.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360093

• 24 Aug 2023N/a

  (A) a new grass camogie pitch complete with surrounding fence, 2no. new dugouts, 1no. new ball stop and floodlights, (B) 1no. new ball wall with fencing and floodlights, (C) a new walking track to perimeter and all associated site development works, including a maintenance road, to complete the development. The overall development is located to the rear (east) of the existing Crinkill GAA pitch and will be accessed via the existing entrance and car park

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360080

• 31 Mar 2020Conditional

  ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, AND DOMESTIC SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20118

• 29 Jan 2019Conditional

  EXTENSION & REFURBISHMENT TO EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING DEMOLITION OF PORTION OF DWELLING TO SOUTH & EAST, INSTALLATION OF NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA, ALL WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1929

• 14 Jun 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL HAYSHED AND REVISE SITE BOUNDARIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 18256

• 14 Jun 2018Conditional

  1) DEMOLITION OF EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING. 2) DEMOLITION OF 2NO. FARM BUILDINGS LOCATED TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING. 3) REVISION OF SITE BOUNDARIES. 4) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND REPLACEMENT OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH A NEW PROPRIETARY SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18257

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

• OF035-027 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  No surface trace visible of Loretto Castle which is depicted on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map. 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. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballinree, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1647 (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 Ballinree with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Ballinree · Baile an Fhraoigh

Area

1,219,437 m² (121.94 ha, 301.33 acres)

Civil parish

Birr, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Birr Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,300 people lived in 478 households in the Birr Rural electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boherboy, Boherdeel, Clonoghil Upper, Coolnagrower, Cree, Crinkill, Derrinduff

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.