Ballyhacket Lower

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhacket Lower, from 178 m² to 179,221 m² (17.92 ha, 44.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Ballyhacket Lower 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.

• 31 Mar 2026N/a

  a proposed Solar Farm and Battery Energy Storage System. The development that will consist of: (i) Construction and operation solar PV panels on ground mounted steel supported structures with associated string inverters; (ii) Construction of a 50 MW Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) compound consisting of BESS units, integrated cabinets, spare parts containers, independent power producer (IPP) building (c. 64sqm) and security fencing (c. 2.6m in height); (iii) Installation of 13 no. transformer stations at various points across the site; (iv) Internal underground trenching, electrical cabling and ducting between the solar PV arrays and electrical inverters/transformers; (v) Provision of 1 no. new site entrance from the L6003 and provision of 2 no. passing bays along the L6003; (vi) Provision of internal access tracks and watercourse/drain crossings, perimeter fencing, pole mounted CCTV cameras; (vii) 1 no. temporary construction compound; (viii) All associated site development, landscaping, drainage arrangements and ancillary works. The proposed solar farm development spans a total site area measuring c. 126.4ha, of which c. 61.3ha, the subject of this application, is located in Co. Carlow and c. 65.1ha is located in Co. Kildare. A separate planning application is being lodged with Kildare County Council. Permission is sought for a period of 10 years with an operational period of 40 years. The total capacity of solar PV panels on the entire development, including Carlow and Kildare, is estimated to be c. 120MW. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and was submitted as part of this application. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660091

• 31 Mar 2026N/a

  RED III Application for a solar farm development that will consist of: (i) Construction and operation solar PV panels on ground mounted steel supported structures with associated string inverters; (ii) Installation of 18 no. transformer stations at various points across the site; (iii) Internal underground trenching, electrical cabling and ducting between the solar PV arrays and electrical inverters/transformers; (iv) Provision of 1 no. site entrance from the L4014 via an existing agricultural access point and provision of 1 no. passing bay along the L4014; (v) Provision of internal access tracks and watercourse/drain crossings, perimeter fencing and pole mounted CCTV cameras; (vi) 1 no. temporary construction compound; (vii) All associated site development, landscaping, drainage arrangements and ancillary works. The proposed solar farm development spans a total site area measuring c. 126.4ha, of which c. 65.1ha, the subject of this application, is located in Co. Kildare and c. 61.3ha is located in Co. Carlow. A separate planning application is being lodged with Carlow County Council. Permission is sought for a period of 10 years with an operational period of 40 years. The total capacity of solar PV panels of the entire development including Carlow and Kildare is estimated to be c. 120MW. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and was submitted as part of this application. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660343

• 27 Mar 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, upgrade existing entrance onto public road, new section of driveway and associate works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2560073

• 25 Mar 2025N/a

  for the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, upgrade existing entrance onto public road, new section of driveway and associate works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560070

• 29 Jun 2020Conditional

  the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic garage, all with ancillary site works. A Stage 1 Appropriate Assessment Screening Report enclosed.

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 20210

• 4 Jun 2020N/a

  for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic garage, all with ancillary site works, a NIA (Natura Impact Assessment) is enclosed with this planning application)

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 20166

• 7 Jun 2017Conditional

  development will consist of a single storey porch on the ground floor to the front of the existing dwelling, an attic conversion incorporating a new stairs with a landing space, three new bedrooms, a shower room, a new window on the side gable elevation and three new dormer windows to the front elevation together with all associated site works.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 17187

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

• CW003-041 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Located c. 150m NE of the River Slaney, in tillage. A large oval enclosure (diam. c. 87m N-S; c. 74m E-W), identified as the cropmark of a fosse/fosses on satellite imagery (Google Earth satellite imagery, 21 July 2021) by Jean-Charles Caillère. In the SW-W sector there are indications that the enclosure was defined by two fosses (Wth of each c. 3m), c. 5m apart. See attached: CW003-041----_01 Google Earth satellite imagery, 21 July 2021 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 7 December 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Ballyhacket Lower.

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

Name

Ballyhacket Lower · Baile Haicéid Íochtarach

Area

1,868,630 m² (186.86 ha, 461.75 acres)

Civil parish

Kineagh, and its townlands

Barony

Rathvilly

Electoral division

Kineagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kineagh electoral division: 371 people in 132 households; 91% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycook, Ballyhacket Upper, Downings, Kilmagarvoge, Rathmore, Straboe

Placenames

Ballyhacket Lower 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.