Ballynunnery

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynunnery, from 227 m² to 291,250 m² (29.13 ha, 71.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Ballynunnery 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 Dec 2021Conditional

  Permission for development for a part single storey / part two storey dwelling, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 21505

• 11 May 2020Refused

  A 10 year Planning Permission for a solar farm which will connect to the national grid on lands with a total area of circa 127 hectares, consisting of solar panels on ground mounted frames, 28 No. single storey electrical inverter/transformer stations and associated equipment container, security fencing, satellite communications pole, CCTV, upgrading to existing access tracks and new access tracks, temporary construction compounds, landscaping and all associated ancillary development works. Construction and operational access will be via entrances from the L-7111 and L-7112. The operational lifespan of the solar farm will be 35 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 20143

• 27 Jan 2020Conditional

  for a new vehicular entrance, driveway and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2017

• 8 Feb 2019Conditional

  single storey dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank and raised percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 1932

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 Ballynunnery.

Recorded monuments

• CW013-019 Barrow - mound barrow
  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 Mound with gently sloping sides and small rounded summit (H 2-2.5m; base diam.. c. 16m). Formerly tree-covered. According to local tradition, bell from nearby church to SE (CW013-020----) buried here to prevent its use for sacrilegious purposes. (JKAS 1933, 303)

• CW013-020001 Church
  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 revision: 22 December 2009 Revised by: J. Farrelly Roughly centrally placed within a graveyard (CW013-020002-). Referred to as 'Ballyrownery' (nave dims. 8.16m x 5.9m; chancel dims. 6.6m x 5.3m) (JKAS 1933, 302). Present remains consist of S, W and portions of N and E walls of rectangular church chiefly rebuilt prior to 1839 by Eustace family as mortuary chapel. Entrance (modern in W gable. Possible window splay visible in E wall. Very little of N wall now standing. Corbel and possible piscina in E wall (JRSAI 1933, 303). Only portion of church which is substantially ancient is E gable, with traces of window, rectangular recess and possible corbel, all of which indicate considerably lower floor than present level.

• CW013-020002 Graveyard
  Description

  Irregular-shaped graveyard (map dims. c. 51m NE-SW; c. 56m NW-SW) with a roughly centrally placed church (CW013-020001-). The Burren River flows past the SE boundary of the graveyard and appears to have influenced its shape. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 August 2011

• CW013-022 Castle - unclassified
  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 OS Namebooks record 'the ruins of a Castle … with part of one tower standing'. According to O'Toole (JKAS 1933, 301, 304-5) who includes a photograph, 'portion of the tower … is about 12 feet in height, and has walls 5 feet thick. Several of the out houses of the present farm house, seem to be have been portion of the out buildings of the Castle. In one there is a splayed window, which is 2 feet 10 inches wide inside, and narrows to 1 foot 8 inches on the outside; the wall is 3 feet thick'. Tower and some out houses have been levelled. Remains appear to belong to fairly substantial building. Down Survey (1655-6) map records castle and mill downstream (CW013-021----). Dineley's sketch of 1680 shows a complex of buildings including two tall square, gabled towers but no obvious signs of fortification (JRSAI 1862-3, 46-7).

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Ballynunnery.

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

Name

Ballynunnery · Baile an Fhionraí

Area

776,609 m² (77.66 ha, 191.9 acres)

Civil parish

Gilbertstown, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Templepeter, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Templepeter electoral division: 470 people in 160 households; 93% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycurragh, Ballymogue, Bendinstown, Garreenleen, Gilbertstown, Kellistown West, Kilcoole

Placenames

Ballynunnery 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.