Ballinvally

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinvally, from 468 m² to 62,998 m² (6.3 ha, 15.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Ballinvally 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 Ballinvally 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Unshin River SAC 001898

Recorded monuments

• SL025-022 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  At the foot of a NW-facing slope and close to a stream in damp pasture. The structure is damaged and difficult to interpret. The main feature is an uphill- and E-facing chamber (L 4m; Wth c. 2m) with its back to the stream. A large stone (H c. 1.5m) forms each side and it is closed by an inset backstone (L 1.8m; min. T 0.3m; H 1.4m), the jagged top of which indicates it has been broken. In front of the northern sidestone there is the stump of another orthostat (L 1.6m; min. H 1.7m) possibly a broken portal-stone. Part of its detached upper portion lies at the front of the chamber. Some low stones just N of the stump of this orthostat are part of an old field fence. A large flat slab (4m x 3m; T 0.4m), a displaced roofstone, leans against the outer face of the southern sidestone. Both sidestones lean to the S and both are split. There is considerable grass-grown fill in the chamber. The tomb must remain unclassified but its location, facing uphill away from a stream, the use of a single large stone for each side of the chamber, and the presence of a great roofstone would suggest it may be a ruined portal-tomb. Five metres W of the chamber there is a large prostrate slab (2.45m x 2.5m; T 0.4m), its W end raised clear of the ground where it rests on a set stone (L 1.1m; H 0.55m; T 0.15m). There are other partly buried slabs here. The indications are that this may have been some form of chamber. Some 7m to the N there is another large prostrate slab (4m x 2.4m; max. T 0.4m). 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

• SL025-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, near the base of a S-facing slope. A slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by an earthen bank incorporating some stones. The bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 1.95m; ext. H 0.5m) is best evident along the N arc while along the S arc it is low internally but substantial (ext. H 2.8m) externally. The N half of the interior is level and, while the S portion is raised to compensate for the hillslope, it retains a slope down to S. In the centre at the break of slope is a large horizontal slab, probably a lintel from a possible souterrain (SL025-023001-). 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

• SL025-023001 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (SL025-023----). There is a local tradition of a souterrain in the interior of the rath. A horizontal slab, evident in the centre of interior, may be a roof lintel of a 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

• SL025-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, at the base of an E-facing slope. The rath is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 25m) and on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as a circular area, open to N. The E half of the rath is now truncated by a N-S road. There is an arc of an earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.1m) SW-WNW, c. 6.3m W of the road, and another short section of bank at NW, obscured by overgrowth. Immediately to S of the latter section of bank is a field boundary which extends westwards from the road. Another rath (SL025-031----) is c. 60m to SSW. 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

• SL025-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, near the base of a SE-facing slope and c. 30m N of the Owenboy River. A raised roughly oval area (25.8m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.2m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.5m) which is low or levelled E-S. There is a possible entrance (Wth 1.2m) at ENE, the N face of which is marked by a large stone, and a gap (Wth 1.6m) at N. A band (Wth 2m) of irises and lush grass is evident SW-NW and may indicate a silted-up external fosse. A field boundary, indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map abutting the rath at SSW, has been removed. The broad external slope of the bank here may be the result of piling field boundary material against the bank. The interior slopes down to SE. A level area (c. 11.6m E-W) in the SW quadrant is defined on the E side by a scarp (H 0.7m) which extends c. 6m N from the bank at S. The bank and the interior are covered in long grass. Another rath (SL025-030----) is c. 60m to NNE. 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

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_946 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballinvally · Baile an Bhealaigh

Area

954,265 m² (95.43 ha, 235.8 acres)

Civil parish

Killoran, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Carrownaskeagh, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Cabragh, Cappagh, Carrownabanny, Gortakeeran, Knockadoo

Placenames

Ballinvally 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.