Ballyduff
Ballyduff is a townland in the civil parish of Clonmore, barony of Rathvilly, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is An Baile Dubh.
- Area
- 125.1 ha
- 309 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 6,867 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyduff, from 302 m² to 198,363 m² (19.84 ha, 49.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyduff 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
8 May 2026Conditional
the renovation & alteration of the existing cottage, the construction of a single-storey extension, the installation of a new wastewater treatment system, upgrade of existing entrance and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2660135
26 Aug 2024Conditional
to retain small side extension to existing dwelling and to retain domestic garage and planning sought to relocate and upgrade effluent treatment system and ancillary works
Retention, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2437
26 Jul 2024N/a
to retain small side extension to existing dwelling and to retain domestic garage and planning sought to relocate and upgrade effluent treatment system and ancillary works
Retention · Carlow County Council, 2431
18 Aug 2017Conditional
for the construction of a proposed two storey extension to the rear of existing two storey dwelling, exterior and interior alterations, demolition of existing storage shed to the side of existing dwelling, proposed treatment system and percolation area, decommissioning of existing septic tank and all ancillary site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 17244
30 Jun 2017Conditional
for construction of a new 389m2 machinery storage and stock shed, underground effluent storage tank, concrete yard and all associated ancillary works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 17208
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 Ballyduff.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyduff.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyduff.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyduff, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyduff.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyduff · An Baile Dubh
- Area
- 1,250,906 m² (125.09 ha, 309.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathvilly
- Electoral division
- Clonmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 548 people lived in 199 households in the Clonmore electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynakill, Blackhill, Duffery, Island, Raheen
- Placenames
- Ballyduff 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.