Ballyhacket Upper

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhacket Upper, from 1,015 m² to 224,803 m² (22.48 ha, 55.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Ballyhacket Upper 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

• 6 Jul 2018Conditional

  for construction of (1) milking parlour, dairy, plant room, office and drafting facility, (2) steel slurry tower, (3) collecting yard, (4) underground tank for grey/dirty water, (5) underground slurry tank, (6) outdoor cow cubicles, (7) associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 18260

• 28 Feb 2018N/a

  Planning permission for construction of (1) milking parlour, dairy, plant room and office, (2) steel slurry tower, (3) collecting yard, (4) underground tank for grey/dirty water, (5) underground slurry tank, (6) outdoor cow cubicles, (7) associated site works.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 1866

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 Ballyhacket Upper.

Recorded monuments

• CW003-006 Earthwork
  Description

  On slight rise, in pasture, a mound of earth (H above fosse 8-9m) constructed of material excavated from wide fosse (Wth 20m; D 0.8m). May represent the E portion of a badly mutilated ringfort. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

• CW003-007 Cist
  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 Irregular cist of three boulders and drystone walling containing crouched inhumation of adult female with bowl food vessel at E and cremation burial at W (JRSAI 1934, 139-42).

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyhacket Upper, 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 Ballyhacket Upper.

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

Name

Ballyhacket Upper · Baile Haicéid Uachtarach

Area

1,089,513 m² (108.95 ha, 269.22 acres)

Civil parish

Kineagh, and its townlands

Barony

Rathvilly

Electoral division

Kineagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

371 people lived in 132 households in the Kineagh electoral division. 91% of households owned 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 Lower, Oldtown, Phillipstown, Rathdaniel, Rathmore

Placenames

Ballyhacket Upper 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.