Ballinvarry
Ballinvarry is a townland in the civil parish of The Rower, barony of Ida, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is Baile an Bharraigh.
Parcel 849193
- Area
- 2,500 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 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
- Ballinvarry
Planning applications on this parcel
27 Jan 2026Refused
to relocate the percolation area and revise the site layout and the site boundaries from plans approved under Planning Register Number 21/250 and all associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660048
1 Apr 2021Conditional
is sought to erect a 4 bedroom single storey dwelling house with new entrance sewage treatment system with partially raised soil polishing filter and associated site works at Ballinvarry, Graiguenamanagh Co. Kilkenny.
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21250
22 Dec 2020Refused
to erect a 4 bedroom single storey dwelling house with new entrance, sewage treatment system with partially raised soil polishing filter and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20904
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 moderately high, moderately low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 49 ha
- 121 acres
- Land parcels
- 58
- registered freehold, median 2,832 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinvarry, from 32 m² to 49,750 m² (4.98 ha, 12.29 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 Ballinvarry 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
27 Jan 2026Refused
to relocate the percolation area and revise the site layout and the site boundaries from plans approved under Planning Register Number 21/250 and all associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660048
1 Apr 2021Conditional
is sought to erect a 4 bedroom single storey dwelling house with new entrance sewage treatment system with partially raised soil polishing filter and associated site works at Ballinvarry, Graiguenamanagh Co. Kilkenny.
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21250
22 Dec 2020Refused
to erect a 4 bedroom single storey dwelling house with new entrance, sewage treatment system with partially raised soil polishing filter and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20904
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinvarry.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinvarry.
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 Ballinvarry, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinvarry.
- 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 Ballinvarry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinvarry · Baile an Bharraigh
- Area
- 490,165 m² (49.02 ha, 121.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- The Rower, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ida
- Electoral division
- Coolhill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 280 people lived in 93 households in the Coolhill electoral division. 98% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvarry English, Ballinvarry Irish, Brandonhill, Carrickanoran
- Placenames
- Ballinvarry 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.