Ballinveny
Townland in the civil parish of Aghnameadle, barony of Ormond Upper, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Baile an Mhéine
- Area
- 344.4 ha
- 851 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 44,324 m² (4.43 ha, 10.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinveny, from 98 m² to 566,379 m² (56.64 ha, 139.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballinveny 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
21 Feb 2025Conditional
a dwelling house, garage, wastewater system and entrance
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2560128
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballinveny.
Recorded monuments
- TN022-054 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on top of a hillock on flat marshy terrain in an upland area with a nearby enclosure site (TN022-055) to the E and the Ollatrim River to the N. A circular area (diam. 50m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 0.8m) mainly reduced to a scarp with an external fosse visible in places. No entrance feature visible. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN022-055 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a N-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area with a nearby ringfort (TN022-054) to the W. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN028-011 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a N-facing slope of rising ground in a mountainous region with a nearby enclosure site (TN028-012) to the NE. Not visible at ground level; farm sheds and a silage pit occupy the site. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN028-012 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a N-facing slope of rising ground in a mountainous region with a nearby enclosure site (TN028-011) to the SW. Depicted as a large circular enclosure on the current edition OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN028-013 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on top of a natural hillock on an E-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area with a nearby ringfort (TN028-022) to the E. A circular area (diam. 57m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.4m) which has been mainly reduced to a scarp (H 2m max.) with outer fosse (Wth 2-4m) and possible entrance gap (Wth 5m) at SW. A trackway (Wth 5m; D 1.5m) cuts through the E sector of the site on a N-S axis. The interior follows the natural slope of the hillock, rising to a summit in the centre. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN028-016 Enclosure
Description
Situated on an E-facing slope on a natural hillock in a mountainous region with extensive views. Depicted as a circular enclosure (dims. c. 66m N-S; c. 54m E-W) on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map 6-inch. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN028-017 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on an E-facing slope of rising ground in a mountainous region. A circular area (diam. 40m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; H 0.5m) and outer fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.3m) both of which are destroyed at E. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN028-018 Enclosure
Description
Situated on an E-facing slope of rising ground in a mountainous region. Not visible at ground level. A modern house and avenue occupy the site. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinveny.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinveny.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballinveny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinveny · Baile an Mhéine
- Area
- 3,444,425 m² (344.44 ha, 851.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghnameadle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Upper
- Electoral division
- Aghnameadle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Aghnameadle electoral division: 350 people in 102 households; 93% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghnameadle, Ballybeg, Barnane, Blakefield, Borrisnafarney, Coologe, Killoskehan, Knockanroger
- Placenames
- Ballinveny 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.