Ballybit Big

99 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybit Big, from 38 m² to 213,368 m² (21.34 ha, 52.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballybit 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.

• 16 Nov 2025N/a

  existing domestic garage and Planning permission for new extension to garage, and partial conversion to one bedroomed granny flat and all associated site works

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 2560371

• 18 Sept 2025Conditional

  extension to existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2560285

• 19 Sept 2022Conditional

  1) extension to side and rear of dwelling as constructed from that previously granted under Pl. Reg. No. 11/97 and 2) Planning permission for relocation of soil polishing filter / percolation area and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 22308

• 28 May 2019Conditional

  the upgrade of an existing agricultural entrance to accommodate a 30m wide bellmouth forest road entrance, construction of a forest road and ancillary works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19212

• 15 May 2019N/a

  for the upgrade of an existing agricultural entrance to accommodate a 30m wide bellmouth forest road entrance, construction of a forest road and ancillary works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19194

• 18 Apr 2019N/a

  for the construction of a 30m wide bellmouth entrance, construction of a forest road, and ancillary works at Ballybit Big, Rathvilly, Co. Carlow. The forest entrance will adjoin the public road and will facilitate occasional access of forestry vehicles

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19147

• 29 Mar 2019Refused

  new dwelling with detached garage, wastewater treatment unit, private well, new site entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 19123

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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

• CW003-040 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A roughly circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 22m) visible as a faint cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018), identified and reported by Faith Bailey. The enclosure is defined by an inner and outer fosse, c. 3-4m apart. See attached: CW003-040----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) CW003-040----_02 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) with enclosure highlighted Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 February 2020

Architectural heritage

• Lisnavagh House, gate lodge, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway and gate lodge, c.1847.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballybit Big, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballybit Big with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Ballybit Big · Baile Bheit Mór

Area

2,641,629 m² (264.16 ha, 652.76 acres)

Civil parish

Rathvilly, and its townlands

Barony

Rathvilly

Electoral division

Williamstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

327 people lived in 112 households in the Williamstown electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybit Little, Ballyoliver, Kilmagarvoge, Lisnevagh, Raheenadaw, Rathmore, Tankardstown, Tobinstown, Tuckamine

Placenames

Ballybit 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.