Ballinvoher

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinvoher, from 1,189 m² to 116,033 m² (11.6 ha, 28.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Ballinvoher 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballinvoher 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 the townland of Ballinvoher.

Recorded monuments

• SL033-126 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a N-facing slope. A raised circular area (diam. 21m) defined by a scarp (H 1m), bisected by a road (on a NNW-SSE axis). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL033-155 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on an ENE-facing slope. A raised circular area (28m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by an eroded earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.55m) WSW-NNE and by a scarp (H 0.8m) elsewhere. An external fosse (D 0.4m) is evident W-NNE. There is a field boundary on the line of the fosse E-SE. Another field boundary exists along the line of the scarp S-WSW. The interior slopes slightly to ENE and is clear of overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL033-156 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In coppiced woodland, on the steep S-facing slope of a drumlin. A circular area (int. diam. c. 28m), enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 2m; ext. H 1.2m) with an external fosse (Wth 2.86m) along the N arc. The S portion of the interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope, however, the interior retains a slope down to the S. There is a possible entrance (Wth 1m) at N. The rath is densely overgrown with trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL033-157 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In coppiced woodland, on the steep S-facing slope of a drumlin. A circular area (int. diam. 18.5m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.4m) which is very low along the E arc and is replaced by a NW-SE field boundary along the NNE arc. There is another rath (SL033-158001-) c. 30m to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL033-158001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a drumlin. The remains of a raised oval area (int. diam. 28m E-W; 20m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1.8m), the S arc is quarried away and a NNE-SSW field boundary replaces the E arc. There is a possible souterrain (SL033-158002-) near the scarp in the NW quadrant. Another rath (SL033-157----) is c. 30m to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL033-158002 Souterrain
  Description

  In the NW quadrant of a rath (SL033-158001-). A depression (L 6m N-S; Wth 4m; D 1.2m) with a projection (L 3m) to E may indicate a collapsed souterrain chamber. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

• House, 1870–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-storey with attic stone house, built c. 1885. Asymmetric front elevation with single dormer centrally-located over paired ground floor windows to east side, single-storey pitched roof return to centre rear (west). Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, hipped dormer window, brick corbelled chimneystack, painted zig-zag-edged projecting timber bargeboards, profiled extruded aluminium gutters c. 2000 on painted timber overhanging eaves. Coursed rubble limestone walling, tooled squared limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings, yellow brick dressings, limestone sills, uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door openings, yellow brick dressings, painted vertically-sheeted timber doors. Fronting gravel path, lawns, rubble stone boundary wall, wrought-iron gate to road. Enclosed yard to south, two-storey pitched roof rubble stone outbuilding to west, tooled limestone gate piers, wrought-iron gates.

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 Ballinvoher, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballinvoher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Ballinvoher · Baile an Bhóthair

Area

802,602 m² (80.26 ha, 198.33 acres)

Civil parish

Toomour, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Bricklieve, the unit of the census

Census 2022

213 people lived in 85 households in the Bricklieve electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownacreevy, Cletty, Doonmeegin, Graniamore, Lugacaha, Roscrib East

Placenames

Ballinvoher 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.