Ballinlavan

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlavan, from 1,912 m² to 190,172 m² (19.02 ha, 46.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Ballinlavan 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 Ballinlavan 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 Ballinlavan.

Recorded monuments

• WM024-151 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on the N-facing slope of a hill, in pasture, with good views to E and W. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 35m) standing just W of the townland boundary. Shown on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oblong, irregular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1971 as no surface remains visible. Barely discernible cropmark of levelled monument visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 28 August 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballinlavan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Ballinlavan

Area

223,382 m² (22.34 ha, 55.2 acres)

Civil parish

Killare, and its townlands

Barony

Rathconrath

Electoral division

Killare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killare electoral division: 369 people in 124 households; 91% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bessville, Clyglass, Killaroo, Killeenbrack, Rowe or Toordillon

Placenames

Ballinlavan 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.