# Ballyhegan, Co. Carlow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of St. Mullins, barony of St. Mullin's Lower, Co. Carlow; in Irish Baile Uí Aogáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 721,590 m² (72.16 ha, 178.31 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,453 m² (0.85 ha, 2.09 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: St. Mullins, https://everytownland.com/carlow/parish/st-mullins.md - Barony: St. Mullin's Lower - Electoral division: Marley, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Marley electoral division: 433 people in 132 households; 93% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Carlow, https://everytownland.com/carlow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/3597 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 10066 - Centre: latitude 52.542926, longitude -6.919033 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhegan, from 50 m² to 130,996 m² (13.1 ha, 32.37 acres); 35 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 794700: 130,996 m² (13.1 ha, 32.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/794700.md - Parcel 794657: 95,900 m² (9.59 ha, 23.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/794657.md - Parcel 5047542: 89,747 m² (8.97 ha, 22.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5047542.md - Parcel 794655: 60,590 m² (6.06 ha, 14.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/794655.md - Parcel 5058069: 57,398 m² (5.74 ha, 14.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5058069.md - Parcel 794654: 45,066 m² (4.51 ha, 11.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/794654.md - Parcel 794651: 44,208 m² (4.42 ha, 10.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/794651.md - Parcel 4431870: 32,433 m² (3.24 ha, 8.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4431870.md - Parcel 807435: 30,937 m² (3.09 ha, 7.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/807435.md - Parcel 794653: 28,854 m² (2.89 ha, 7.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/794653.md - Parcel 794656: 23,051 m² (2.31 ha, 5.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/794656.md - Parcel 5663399: 15,975 m² (1.6 ha, 3.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5663399.md - Parcel 794659: 8,515 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/794659.md - Parcel 794652: 8,392 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/794652.md - Parcel 807438: 8,175 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/807438.md - Parcel 807437: 6,602 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/807437.md - Parcel 2737369: 6,580 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2737369.md - Parcel 794699: 6,256 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/794699.md - Parcel 2737319: 4,925 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2737319.md - Parcel 807439: 3,905 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/807439.md - Parcel 784292: 3,877 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/784292.md - Parcel 4811700: 3,115 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4811700.md - Parcel 807436: 1,931 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/807436.md - Parcel 794658: 1,619 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/794658.md - Parcel 794698: 370 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/794698.md - Parcel 4431930: 50 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4431930.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhegan in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 21 Feb 2022, Carlow County Council 2265: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission for an agricultural shed for machinery storage, farm workshop and general storage and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2265/0 - 4 Jan 2022, Carlow County Council 221: N/a. Permission. agricultural shed for machinery storage, farm workshop and general storage and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/221/0 - 22 Feb 2021, Carlow County Council 2154: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission for the erection of a dwelling house (alterations to plans approved under planning Register Number 19/455). The alterations include the re-location of the dwelling house on site and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2154/0 - 18 Nov 2019, Carlow County Council 19455: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. Permission for the erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store and stables with treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19455/0 - 31 Jan 2017, Carlow County Council 1722: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission for the erection of a dwelling house and domestic garage/store with septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/1722/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyhegan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CW024-013: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCW024-013----. 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 Original bank represented by bank of stone collapse (max. ext. H at NE 1.2m). Straight field walls have replaced bank at W and N, but site appears to have been originally circular (est original diam. c. 40m). Aerial photograph (GB89.S.15) shows well preserved ringfort (Barrett 1989). - CW024-014: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCW024-014----. 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 Approximately circular area (dims. 43m NNE-SSW, 45m WNW-ESE), enclosed by poorly preserved bank, chiefly of stone. Modified and incorporated into adjacent field boundaries. Grass covered wall extends WNW-ESE through interior. Interior very uneven and rock-strewn. Aerial photograph (GB89.S.15) shows well preserved ringfort (Barrett 1989). 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyhegan. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2517, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2517.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballyhegan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballyhegan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballyhegan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyhegan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow: https://everytownland.com/carlow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballykeenan: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballykeenan-10071.md - Coolnamara: https://everytownland.com/carlow/coolnamara.md - Coolyhune: https://everytownland.com/carlow/coolyhune.md - Harristown: https://everytownland.com/carlow/harristown.md - Knockeen: https://everytownland.com/carlow/knockeen.md - Newtown: https://everytownland.com/carlow/newtown-10431.md - Tinnahinch: https://everytownland.com/carlow/tinnahinch.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballyhegan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/carlow/ballyhegan