Ballyoliver

200 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyoliver, from 9 m² to 138,722 m² (13.87 ha, 34.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing / Infill Residential (Existing residential)
  Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Rathvilly Small Town Plan, Carlow · 85 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Rathvilly Small Town Plan, Carlow · 42 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space and Amenity (Open space, park)
  Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Rathvilly Small Town Plan, Carlow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Rathvilly Small Town Plan, Carlow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Rathvilly Small Town Plan, Carlow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 12 Dec 2025Conditional

  1. permission for the redevelopment of an existing single storey dwelling to include the demolition of a single storey extension to the East elevation, increase in height of existing dwelling to storey & half, and will include storey & Half type extensions to South, East & west elevations. 2. Permission for the demolition of an existing domestic garage and permission for the construction of a new domestic garage / store, a new vehicular entrance to the southern boundary, an increase in width the existing vehicular entrance to the Western boundary, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2560410

• 7 Aug 2025Conditional

  sun lounge to side, non habitable attic conversion with dormer windows to front and roof windows to side and rear and detached metal shed to side garden

  Retention, 3 homes · Carlow County Council, 2560230

• 19 Dec 2024Conditional

  the construction of 27 no. dwellings consisting of 4no. three bed (2-storey) townhouses and 23no. four bed (2-storey) townhouses, connection to existing site services and completion of existing vehicular access road, provision of landscaping and communal open space, boundary treatment works, and all associated and ancillary development works

  Permission, 28 homes · Carlow County Council, 2460420

• 1 Oct 2024Conditional

  the construction of a 2-storey detached townhouse dwelling, connection to existing site services and existing vehicular access road, provision of landscaping and boundary treatment works, and all associated and ancillary development works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2460310

• 16 Sept 2024N/a

  for the construction of a 2-storey detached townhouse dwelling, connection to existing site services and existing vehicular access road, provision of landscaping and boundary treatment works, and all associated and ancillary development works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460291

• 24 Jul 2024Conditional

  retention permission for the following, 1. alterations to previously granted granny flat Pl.No.01/563 to include ground floor & first floor extensions, the addition of 2. No. roof lights, changes to elevations and internal alterations. 2. Alterations to my existing dwelling to include a single storey extension to the rear elevation, changes to roof pitch & height, the construction of 2no. domestic sheds, a green house and all associated site works

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 2460211

• 3 Nov 2023Conditional

  is sought to retain gym / home office building with storage ancillary to the use of the dwelling house as constructed to the rear of existing dwelling house all ancillary site works and services

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 2360257

• 26 Oct 2023Conditional

  to retain existing two-storey dwelling house as constructed and retention planning permission is sought to retain domestic garage as constructed to the rear of existing dwelling house, all ancillary site works and services

  Retention, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2360250

• 23 Oct 2023N/a

  is sought to retain gym / home office building with storage ancillary to the use of the dwelling house as constructed to the rear of existing dwelling house all ancillary site works and services

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 2360247

• 30 Sept 2022Conditional

  to retain extension as constructed to the rear of existing dwelling house, to retain elevational alterations to the existing dwelling house as constructed, retention planning permission is sought to retain chalet as constructed to the rear of existing dwelling house as constructed, all ancillary site works and services

  Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 22331

• 8 Jul 2021Conditional

  Retention permission for the construction of a single storey extension to the south elevation of my existing dwelling, the construction of a domestic garage and domestic storage sheds and all associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 21261

• 28 Jun 2021Conditional

  For the construction of 10 No. dwellings consisting of 3 No. three bed (2 storey) townhouses and 7 No. four bed (2 storey) townhouses, connection to existing site services and vehicular access road, provision of landscaping and communal open space, boundary treatment works, and all associated and ancillary development works

  Permission, 10 homes · Carlow County Council, 21246

• 14 Jun 2021Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a single storey extension to the Northwest elevation of existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 21222

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

• CW004-062 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Three irregular-shaped features containing charcoal-rich soil and heat-affected stones were uncovered during archaeological monitoring carried out during the development phase of a housing estate (Excavation Licence 06E0654). (Halpin B. 2009, 39) Reference: Halpin, B. (2009) Ballyolivor Bronze Age potboilers In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 39 (162). Bray. Wordwell Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 10 November 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyoliver.

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.

• Ballyoliver, Rathvilly6 sales

Name

Ballyoliver · Baile Oilibhéir

Area

2,011,719 m² (201.17 ha, 497.11 acres)

Civil parish

Rathvilly, and its townlands

Barony

Rathvilly

Electoral division

Rahill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rahill electoral division: 792 people in 272 households; 83% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybit Big, Ballybit Little, Bough, Lisnevagh, Moanavoth, Raheenadaw, Rathvilly, Ricketstown South

Placenames

Ballyoliver 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.