Ballyglisheen

100 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyglisheen, from 169 m² to 537,950 m² (53.79 ha, 132.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Ballyglisheen 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.

• 17 Aug 2026N/a

  change of use of existing dwelling granted permission under Planning Reference number 03/655 to short term holiday let and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660255

• 19 Aug 2025Refused

  a) The construction of a new 292.4sq.m single storey, part flat roof, part pitched roof family dwelling, b) A new proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter to serve the new dwelling, c) A new vehicular entrance to serve the new dwelling, d) All associated site & landscaping works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2560242

• 18 Oct 2021Conditional

  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, 21394

• 18 May 2017Conditional

  the erection of a dwelling house with treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated sit works.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 17163

• 5 May 2017N/a

  Permission for the erection of a dwelling house with treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 17142

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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackstairs Mountains 000770

Recorded monuments

• CW024-052 Earthwork
  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 Small cairn of stones (diam. c. 6m) in rectangular uncultivated area (L c. 24m). Known locally as 'rath'.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyglisheen.

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

Name

Ballyglisheen · Baile Uí Ghlaisín

Area

3,368,713 m² (336.87 ha, 832.43 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

Bantry Commons (Co. Wexford), Clanagh, Gowlin, Knockymullgurry, Lacken, Mullannagaun, Mullannavode

Placenames

Ballyglisheen 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.