Ballybeg Big

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybeg Big, from 445 m² to 1,185,323 m² (118.53 ha, 292.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 Ballybeg Big 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.

• 24 Jun 2025Conditional

  the construction of a bovine slatted shed extension with a straw lie back area, cattle crush & handling facilities, roofed feed passage, underground slurry storage tanks with agitation points, hard and soft landscaping and all associated works to facilitate the development

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560182

• 13 Jun 2025Conditional

  the erection of an agricultural cattle shed with slatted slurry storage tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560170

• 16 Dec 2024Conditional

  • the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing overhead line circuit conductor wires with a new higher capacity conductor • the strengthening of foundations at 7no. locations • shear block remedial works at 77no. locations • the strengthening of towers (i.e., member replacement) at 34no. locations • the replacement of 5.1km of earthwire • the painting of all structures • the replacement of insulating and ancillary hardware at structures • all associated works within the existing Kellis 220kV substation to accommodate the uprated 220kV OHL including uprating of the Great Island bay in Kellis 220kV substation • the installation of a temporary link between the Great Island – Kellis and Dunstown = Kellis 220kV OHLs to create a temporary circuit, which will include the erection of a temporary four-pole timber structure between the existing Angle Mast 191 on the Great Island- Kellis circuit and the existing Angle Mast 157 on the Dunstown – Kellis circuit • all associated temporary site development works to gain access to the existing structures including vegetation clearance and management, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts/piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing, and • other temporary associated and ancillary site development works required for the purpose of the uprate of the existing circuit, including construction compounds, silt traps, silt fences, vegetation clearance and management, stone tracks, ground protection mats, infrastructure crossing support systems (i.e., guard poles) and temporary watercourse crossings. Where required, an aerial catenary stringing system (ACSS) will be used to facilitate stringing operations over major obstacles, e.g., busy national roads, wide rivers, etc. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. Please see Site Notice for full development description

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460410

• 7 Oct 2024N/a

  for development consisting of works along the ca. 70.3km Great Island – Kellis 220kV OHL between the existing Great Island 220kV substation in the townland of Great Island in southwest County Wexford and the Kellis 220kV substation located in the townland of Kellistown East, central County Carlow. The OHL has a total of 216no. supporting structures. Within the functional area of Carlow County Council, there is 44.2km of the existing OHL circuit, with 135no. structures. Within the functional area of Wexford County Council there is 26.1km, with 81no. structures. A separate planning application is being lodged with Wexford County Council. The proposed development within Co. Carlow will comprise: • the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing overhead line circuit conductor wires with a new higher capacity conductor; • the strengthening of foundations at 7no. locations; • shear block remedial works at 77no. locations; • the strengthening of towers (i.e., member replacement) at 34no. locations; • the replacement of 5.1km of earthwire; • the painting of all structures; • the replacement of insulating and ancillary hardware at structures; • all associated works within the existing Kellis 220kV substation to accommodate the uprated 220kV OHL including uprating of the Great Island bay in the Kellis 220kV substation; • the installation of a temporary link between the Great Island – Kellis and Dunstown – Kellis 220kV OHLs to create a temporary circuit, which will include the erection of a temporary four-pole timber structure between the existing Angle Mast 191 on the Great Island – Kellis circuit and the existing Angle Mast 157 on the Dunstown – Kellis circuit; • all associated temporary site development works to gain access to the existing structures including vegetation clearance and management, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts / piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing; and • other temporary associated and ancillary site development works required for the purpose of the uprate of the existing circuit, including construction compounds, silt traps, silt fences, vegetation clearance and management, stone tracks, ground protection mats, infrastructure crossing support systems (i.e., guard poles) and temporary watercourse crossings. Where required, an aerial catenary stringing system (ACSS) will be used to facilitate stringing operations over major obstacles, e.g., busy national roads, wide rivers, etc.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460319

• 29 Feb 2024Conditional

  the erection of a dwelling house and domestic garage / store with treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2460044

• 30 Nov 2023Conditional

  the part demolition and extension to the rear of an existing farm house, along with the installation of a new waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associate site and landscaping works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2360279

• 2 Mar 2020Conditional

  Permission for the erection of a dwelling house and domestic garage/store with treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2072

• 31 May 2019N/a

  the construction of an extension to an existing domestic dwelling, attic conversion for habitation and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19225

• 8 May 2019Conditional

  to demolish existing milking parlour and calving pens and permission for the erection of (1) a new milking parlour, (2) new slatted slurry storage tank and (3) meal storage bin and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19179

• 23 Apr 2019N/a

  to demolish existing milking parlour and calving pens and permission for the erection of (1) a new milking parlour, (2) new slatted slurry storage tank and (3) meal storage bin and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19151

• 8 Apr 2019N/a

  for the construction of an extension to an existing domestic dwelling, attic conversion for habitation and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19134

• 11 Sept 2018Conditional

  for part demolition, restoration and extension to the rear of an existing farm house, along with the installation of a new waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site and landscaping works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 18358

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: Blackstairs Mountains SAC 000770
• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackstairs Mountains 000770

Recorded monuments

• CW024-023 Enclosure
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Referred to by local tradition as 'rath' and not cultivated. No visible surface indications of an antiquity.

• CW024-025 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Circular area (diam. 29m) surrounded by stone wall. Gap at NW is probably original entrance. Field boundary wall stands on inner face of cashel wall from NW-N-E.

• CW024-036 Enclosure
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Reported locally as 'rath'. Subcircular, slightly angular area (int. dims. 32m N-S, c. 36m E-W) enclosed by field boundaries. In its present form, probably of nineteenth-century date but may reflect earlier circular enclosure.

• CW024-056 Rock art (present location)
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 April 2009 Massive granite boulder now lying on cashel wall (CW024-025----). Thought to have come from somewhere in the field to the NE of cashel. Three cupmarks, one surrounded by faint circle, scattered over surface. Two grooves appear to be natural as similar marks appear on other boulders nearby.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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 Ballybeg Big.

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 Ballybeg Big with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Ballybeg Big · An Baile Beag Mór

Area

4,976,206 m² (497.62 ha, 1,229.65 acres)

Civil parish

St. Mullins, and its townlands

Barony

St. Mullin'S Lower

Electoral division

Ballymurphy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymurphy electoral division: 282 people in 95 households; 89% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnaglear, Ballybeg Little, Bantry Commons (Co. Wexford), Bantry Commons (Co. Wexford), Gowlin, Marley Or Knockduff, Newtown, Slievedurda

Placenames

Ballybeg Big 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.