Ballycarney

101 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycarney, from 32 m² to 160,483 m² (16.05 ha, 39.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.

• G1Open Space and Amenity (Open space, park)
  Carlow_County_Development_Plan_2022_2028_Variation_Number_4_Carlow_Town_and_Environs, Carlow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 26 Mar 2026Conditional

  the change of use of existing domestic garage for use as a granny flat ancillary to the use of the existing dwelling house including elevational alterations to same, full planning permission is sought to construct a single storey extension to the rear of same and to construct an extension linking the existing building to the existing dwelling house, all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2660080

• 22 May 2025Conditional

  A 10 Year Planning Permission for a solar farm with a total area of circa 57 hectares. The solar farm will consist of solar panels on ground mounted frames, 8 no. single storey electrical inverter/transformer stations, 2 no. single storey spare parts containers, 1 no. Ring Main Unit, 3 no. weather stations, underground electrical ducting and cabling within the development site, private lands and within the L4038, L8185, R448, L3051, L3052 and L3050 public roads to connect solar farm field parcels, security fencing, CCTV, access tracks, 5 no. watercourse/drain deck crossings and 2 no. horizontal directional drill crossings (under M9 motorway and the Dublin - Waterford railway), temporary construction compounds, landscaping and all associated ancillary development and drainage works. Construction and operational access will be via 2 no. existing entrances from the R448 and L1010. Sections of the proposed underground electrical cabling will traverse the solar farms proposed under Carlow County Council References 24/60043 and 24/60205, but will not alter infrastructure proposed under these applications. The operational lifespan of the solar farm will be 40 years and planning permission is requested for this duration. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560137

• 1 Nov 2024Refused

  1. The change of use of our existing dwelling to be used to facilitate the expansion of our existing adjoining childcare facility, upgrading of existing septic tank & percolation area to secondary treatment system & soil polishing filter. 2. The construction of a single storey extension to the rear & side elevations of the afore mentioned childcare facility, associated carparking spaces and all associated site works at

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460349

• 19 Jul 2024Conditional

  A 10 Year planning permission for a solar farm with a total area of circa 73 hectares in the townlands of Ballybar Lower, Ballybar Upper, Ballycarney, Ballyloo, Linkardstown, Park and Tinryland in County Carlow. The solar farm will consist of solar panels on ground mounted frames, 11 no. single storey electrical inverter/transformer stations, 3 no. single storey spare parts containers, 2 no. Ring Main Units, 3 no. weather stations, underground electrical ducting and cabling within the development site, private lands and within the L1010, L3051, L3052 and L3050 public roads to connect solar farm field parcels, security fencing, CCTV, access tracks, 3 no. watercourse/drain deck crossings and 2 no. horizontal directional drill crossings (under M9 motorway and L3050), temporary construction compounds, landscaping and all associated ancillary development and drainage works. Construction and operational access will be via 2 no. entrances from the L1022 and L1010. Sections of the proposed underground electrical cabling will traverse the solar farm proposed under Carlow County Council Reference 24/60043, but will not alter infrastructure proposed under that application. The operational lifespan of the solar farm will be 40 years and planning permission is requested for this duration. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460205

• 14 Apr 2020Conditional

  to demolish existing single storey dwelling and remove existing septic tank and shed, and construct a replacement single storey dwelling, revisions to existing entrance, new waste treatment system and percolation area, use of on-site mains water and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 20123

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 Ballycarney.

Recorded monuments

• CW007-034 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 Marked on 1839 'OS 6-inch' map as circular enclosure. Aerial photograph (GSI S 22) shows circular cropmark suggesting raised platform without, or with only very shallow, enclosing fosse (est max. diam. c. 50m).

• CW007-178 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m N-S; c. 37m E-W) visible as a faint cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling. A slightly larger enclosure (CW007-034----) appears to be conjoined to the E. See attached: CW007-178----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) CW007-178----_02 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) with enclosure highlighted Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 11 February 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballycarney, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2461 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballycarney · Baile Uí Chearnaigh

Area

1,274,204 m² (127.42 ha, 314.86 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinacarrig, and its townlands

Barony

Carlow

Electoral division

Ballinacarrig, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,122 people lived in 395 households in the Ballinacarrig electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybar Lower, Cloghna, Mortarstown Lower, Mortarstown Upper, Park, Quinagh

Placenames

Ballycarney 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.