Ballynalour

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynalour, from 63 m² to 261,172 m² (26.12 ha, 64.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Ballynalour 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.

• 16 Dec 2024Conditional

  • the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing overhead line circuit conductor wires with a new higher capacity conductor • the strengthening of foundations at 7no. locations • shear block remedial works at 77no. locations • the strengthening of towers (i.e., member replacement) at 34no. locations • the replacement of 5.1km of earthwire • the painting of all structures • the replacement of insulating and ancillary hardware at structures • all associated works within the existing Kellis 220kV substation to accommodate the uprated 220kV OHL including uprating of the Great Island bay in Kellis 220kV substation • the installation of a temporary link between the Great Island – Kellis and Dunstown = Kellis 220kV OHLs to create a temporary circuit, which will include the erection of a temporary four-pole timber structure between the existing Angle Mast 191 on the Great Island- Kellis circuit and the existing Angle Mast 157 on the Dunstown – Kellis circuit • all associated temporary site development works to gain access to the existing structures including vegetation clearance and management, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts/piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing, and • other temporary associated and ancillary site development works required for the purpose of the uprate of the existing circuit, including construction compounds, silt traps, silt fences, vegetation clearance and management, stone tracks, ground protection mats, infrastructure crossing support systems (i.e., guard poles) and temporary watercourse crossings. Where required, an aerial catenary stringing system (ACSS) will be used to facilitate stringing operations over major obstacles, e.g., busy national roads, wide rivers, etc. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. Please see Site Notice for full development description

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460410

• 7 Oct 2024N/a

  for development consisting of works along the ca. 70.3km Great Island – Kellis 220kV OHL between the existing Great Island 220kV substation in the townland of Great Island in southwest County Wexford and the Kellis 220kV substation located in the townland of Kellistown East, central County Carlow. The OHL has a total of 216no. supporting structures. Within the functional area of Carlow County Council, there is 44.2km of the existing OHL circuit, with 135no. structures. Within the functional area of Wexford County Council there is 26.1km, with 81no. structures. A separate planning application is being lodged with Wexford County Council. The proposed development within Co. Carlow will comprise: • the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing overhead line circuit conductor wires with a new higher capacity conductor; • the strengthening of foundations at 7no. locations; • shear block remedial works at 77no. locations; • the strengthening of towers (i.e., member replacement) at 34no. locations; • the replacement of 5.1km of earthwire; • the painting of all structures; • the replacement of insulating and ancillary hardware at structures; • all associated works within the existing Kellis 220kV substation to accommodate the uprated 220kV OHL including uprating of the Great Island bay in the Kellis 220kV substation; • the installation of a temporary link between the Great Island – Kellis and Dunstown – Kellis 220kV OHLs to create a temporary circuit, which will include the erection of a temporary four-pole timber structure between the existing Angle Mast 191 on the Great Island – Kellis circuit and the existing Angle Mast 157 on the Dunstown – Kellis circuit; • all associated temporary site development works to gain access to the existing structures including vegetation clearance and management, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts / piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing; and • other temporary associated and ancillary site development works required for the purpose of the uprate of the existing circuit, including construction compounds, silt traps, silt fences, vegetation clearance and management, stone tracks, ground protection mats, infrastructure crossing support systems (i.e., guard poles) and temporary watercourse crossings. Where required, an aerial catenary stringing system (ACSS) will be used to facilitate stringing operations over major obstacles, e.g., busy national roads, wide rivers, etc.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460319

• 1 Feb 2024Conditional

  the construction of an above ground slurry store and associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460019

• 24 Nov 2022Conditional

  to (1) demolish existing fire damaged dwelling (2) erection of a new replacement dwelling (3) upgrade of existing septic tank to a treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 22400

• 15 Mar 2022Conditional

  the construction of (a) a slatted shed, (b) a lean-to roof over an existing cattle handling yard, (c) a new milking parlour, dairy and drafting area (d) a collecting yard with slatted tank and associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2299

• 24 May 2021Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 21185

• 12 Aug 2019Conditional

  the erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store, treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 19311

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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Pollmounty River Valley 000812

Recorded monuments

• CW026-022 Enclosure
  Description

  Possible enclosure visible on aerial photograph (GSIAP). No features discernible at ground level. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

• CW026-024 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Located 100m N of the Pollmounty River and c. 20m W of a small stream, at the upper edge of the steep scarp descending to the river. The remains are densely overgrown and stand at the S edge of an abandoned farmstead, incorporated into the field boundary system. The area is wooded. According to Comerford (1886, 317), ‘The remains of the Castle of Polmonty, which are but little, shew it to have been a rectangular fortress: it evidently was destroyed by powder, as portions of the walls, measuring 5½ feet [1.65m] in thickness, lie in large masses at a considerable distance from the site of the building; one huge piece, of several tons weight, is 20 feet [6m] from its former position; the mortar of it is so good that the smallest stone could not be detached without considerable force being used. The only portion of the wall now standing shows the remains of a stone stairway’. Built of roughly coursed granite rubble, with split pinning stones laid in mortar, only a length (7m) of the NW wall (Wth 0.9m) and probable attached section of the NE wall survive, to a maximum height of c. 2m. The wall rests on a low plinth (H c. 0.2m) which projects out by c. 0.1m. Internally on the NW wall 3 broken treads of a stair survive, rising to the N. Immediately outside the wall, to the SSW, where it merges with a field wall, lies a large rebated and chamfered jambstone (L 1.2m; Wth 0.5-0.59m tapering towards the top; T 0.4m) from a doorway. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 6 December 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballynalour.

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

Name

Ballynalour · Baile Bhoth na Lobhar

Area

3,095,103 m² (309.51 ha, 764.82 acres)

Civil parish

St. Mullins, and its townlands

Barony

St. Mullin'S Lower

Electoral division

Glynn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glynn electoral division: 395 people in 136 households; 91% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyknockcrumpin, Ballyleigh (Co. Wexford), Ballynabearna (Co. Wexford), Bantry Commons (Co. Wexford), Curraun (Co. Wexford), Dranagh, Drummin

Placenames

Ballynalour 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.