Ballina
Ballina is a townland in the civil parish of Taghboy, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 90.7 ha
- 224 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 3,748 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballina, from 316 m² to 848,612 m² (84.86 ha, 209.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 44 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 Ballina 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
16 Sept 2025Refused
Retention of existing general purpose shed (139.54m²) and associated concrete/paved aprons & as constructed location of septic tank and percolation area to that granted in planning permission PD/04/110 and Permission for an extension (93.03m²) to existing general purpose shed and all necessary site services/ancillary siteworks at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2564
29 Apr 2024Conditional
Permission to construct slatted/loose housing shed to include cattle handling facilities, concrete aprons, farm roadway and all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2467
7 Aug 2020Conditional
for 1. Sheep sheds, 2. Slatted shed with slatted tank and creep area, 3. Silage slab to include concrete apron and all associated works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 20306
2 Jun 2020Conditional
to construct: 1. Slatted/loose housing shed with race and crush; 2. Manure pit and concrete apron to include all associated works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20193
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Suck River Callows NHA 000222
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballina.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballina.
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 Ballina, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Ballina with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Ballina
- Area
- 907,441 m² (90.74 ha, 224.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taghboy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Electoral division
- Turrock, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 322 people lived in 113 households in the Turrock electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyforan, Cloonagh, Coolatober, Garrynagran, Lisseenamanragh, Shanballylosky
- Placenames
- Ballina 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.