BallinaghCo. Cavan vs VirginiaCo. CavanTown level

The same comparison as the area page, but measured for the town itself, not the whole Eircode routing key.

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iBallinagh sits in H12, Virginia in A82. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it's actually measured at.
Ballinagh
Virginia

Outlines are each town's CSO Small Areas — the exact footprint every figure is measured over.

TOWNS
Ballinagh
Co. CAVAN · in H12 · pop 1,280 · 4 small areas
Virginia
Co. CAVAN · in A82 · pop 3,017 · 11 small areas
Prices & market● TOWN · exact
Median sale price
€272k
€308k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€174k – €305k
€231k – €389k
Sales (24m)
46
146
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
N/A
New-build share
8.7%
2.7%
Schools, health & amenities● TOWN · counts
Facilities in and around each town — each counted once, for the town it’s closest to. Bigger towns naturally score higher — read alongside population.
Schools
2 prim · 0 sec
1 prim · 1 sec
Ballinagh · 2 schools (largest first)
S N Beal Atha Na Neach Primary
228 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Scoil Mhuire Primary
103 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Virginia · 2 schools (largest first)
Virginia College Secondary
844 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
Virginia Mxd N S Primary
481 pupils · Catholic
Creches
4
2
GP practices
N/A
N/A
Pharmacies
1
3
Hospitals
1
0
Bus stops
7
6
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
2
6
Parks & playgrounds
2
3
Sports pitches
10
12
Social life● TOWN · counts
Places to eat, drink and go out in and around each town — each counted once, for the town it’s closest to. The per 10,000 residents row is the fairer read — raw counts just track town size.
Restaurants
2
5
Cafés
1
4
Pubs & bars
7
3
Takeaways
3
4
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
1
All venues, per 10,000 residents
101.6
56.3
Day-to-day● TOWN · counts
The errands you run without thinking about them. Same caveat — read the per-10,000 row alongside the counts.
Supermarkets
0
2
Convenience shops
3
3
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
4
1
Banks
0
1
Post offices
0
1
Hairdressers
4
5
Dentists
0
2
Vets
0
2
Filling stations
1
1
EV charging
1
1
Library & community centre
1
5
All shops & services, per 10,000 residents
109.4
79.5
Commute by car● TOWN · from centre
Drive time from the town centre to each city centre — typical off-peak, with an estimated weekday rush hour. OSRM road routing.
Dublin
101m · ~135 rush
71m · ~105 rush
Galway
126m · ~150 rush
144m · ~170 rush
Limerick
164m · ~180 rush
181m · ~200 rush
Waterford
192m · ~205 rush
167m · ~180 rush
Cork
227m · ~250 rush
228m · ~250 rush
Affluence & profile● ELECTORAL DIVISION
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-8.5
-1.9
Ballinagh · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-11BellananaghDisadvantaged
-6BellananaghBelow average
Virginia · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-3VirginiaBelow average
-1VirginiaBelow average
Third-level educated
25.9%
35.2%
Professional class
28.8%
36.5%
Unemployment
15.5%
10.4%
Owner-occupier
64.1%
68.0%
Private rental
17.7%
21.3%
Social housing (LA)
16.5%
8.0%
Liveability & safety● AREA · H12 / A82
Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BallinaghH12, VirginiaA82); safety & crime are the Cavan/Monaghan Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.
Quality of Life
62/100
62/100

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (H12 / A82) from official data — Garda crime, CSO income & census, OPW flood, EPA water, and transport/healthcare/broadband coverage. Refreshed quarterly. The dashed line is each town's overall score (that average) — dimensions to its right beat the average, to its left fall short. Two towns can share a score with a very different mix.

BallinaghVirginiaOverall (avg)
Safety62746274
Affordability10094
Infrastructure2426
Family8283
Education4242
Environment7684
Economic3434
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National rank
#66
#66
County rank
#1
#1
Safety
74/100
74/100
Crime / 1,000
40
40

Affluence range

Pobal HP deprivation index — published per Electoral Division, so the spread shows the town's poorest to richest ED. A town that is a single ED shows one mark, no range.

Ballinagh Disadvantaged-8.5
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Bellananagh -11 (least affluent) → Bellananagh -6 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Virginia Below average-1.9
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Virginia -3 (least affluent) → Virginia -1 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.

How accurate is this, and at what level?

● TOWN
Prices, amenities & commute — exact, town-specific.

Prices come from individual PPR sales inside the town's Small-Area boundary; schools, GPs, transport, gyms and parks are counted the same way; commute is routed from the town centre. The figures the routing-key area page can't give you.

● ED
Affluence, profile & tenure — Electoral-Division level.

Pobal HP, third-level, class, unemployment, tenure are published per Electoral Division and averaged across the town's EDs — a range where the town spans several EDs (see the bar above).

● AREA
Liveability & safety — wider-area, not the town.

Quality of life and rank are per Eircode routing key; safety & crime are the Garda division (Cavan/Monaghan) — coarser than a town, so two towns in the same county read the same.

Population & growth are loaded for ~7 counties so far (not Leinster yet); rent & yield are too sparse per town. Tap Schools or Affluence to drill in. Built from 15 CSO Small Areas.
AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BallinaghVirginia
The verdict

Virginia is the stronger town on the data — it leads on 4 of the 7 dimensions to Ballinagh’s 2, with 1 level: affluence, education levels, schools & amenities and access to its nearest city. Ballinagh leads on public transport and affordability.

Higher is better on every spoke — affluence, education, amenity density, transport, safety, affordability and nearest-city access, scored head-to-head.

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