Ballinvally
Townland in the civil parish of Castletowndelvin, barony of Delvin, Co. Westmeath
- Area
- 107.5 ha
- 266 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 5,415 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinvally, from 84 m² to 127,686 m² (12.77 ha, 31.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Dec 2025N/a
to construct a single storey dwelling (130.3sqm), a domestic garage (sqm) and a new domestic entrance onto the public roadway. Permission is also sought to install a septic tank and raised bed and all associated site works
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560616
23 Oct 2025Conditional
Retention Permission to retain as follows (i) Alterations to Dwelling house as constructed (previously granted planning reference 72/20) (ii) Granny Flat to the side of Dwelling as constructed (iii) Rear Extension as constructed (iv) Domestic garage as constructed (v) Domestic Storage Shed as constructed and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560519
13 Sept 2021Conditional
to (a) construct a single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling, (b) make internal alterations to existing dwelling & all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21505
5 Jul 2017Conditional
to construct a traditional two storey type dwelling and domestic garage. Permission is also sought to install a septic tank and percolation area, to erect new site boundaries and to construct a new combined site entrance to serve both the proposed dwelling and farm and to close existing farm gates onto the public road together with all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176195
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 Ballinvally.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinvally.
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).
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinvally.
- 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 Ballinvally with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinvally
- Area
- 1,074,665 m² (107.47 ha, 265.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castletowndelvin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Delvin
- Electoral division
- Clonarney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clonarney electoral division: 538 people in 174 households; 86% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynaskeagh, Dunganstown, Killadoughran, Mabestown, Moyleroe Big, Sheepstown, Stonestown
- 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.