Ballypierce
Ballypierce is a townland in the civil parish of Barragh, barony of St. Mullin's Upper, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is Baile Phiarais.
- Area
- 252.9 ha
- 625 acres
- Land parcels
- 102
- registered freehold, median 4,033 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing / Infill Residential
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
102 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballypierce, from 56 m² to 191,312 m² (19.13 ha, 47.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing / Infill Residential (Existing residential)
Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Variation Number 1 Kildavin Larger Serviced Village, Carlow · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space and Amenity (Open space, park)
Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Variation Number 1 Kildavin Larger Serviced Village, Carlow · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Jan 2026Conditional
(1) renovate and extend an existing two storey dwelling house, (2) construct a new entranceway, together with tree planting, general landscaping and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2660015
11 Dec 2024Conditional
Construction of a single-storey domestic dwelling, with on-site wastewater treatment system compliant with current EPA requirement, detached domestic garage, bored well, new entrance/access from adjoining public road and all ancillary site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460403
29 Oct 2024N/a
construct a single-storey domestic dwelling, with on-site wastewater treatment system compliant with current EPA requirement, detached domestic garage, bored well, new entrance/access from adjoining public road and all ancillary site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2446
21 Aug 2024Conditional
to construct an agricultural entrance with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2460248
24 Feb 2022Conditional
to construct a dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated site works, with new shared entrance to accommodate the proposed site and the existing agricultural field
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2272
22 Oct 2021Conditional
Construct a dwelling house with services, domestic garage & all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 21404
19 Mar 2020Conditional
Permission to subdivide existing site with two number single storey dwellings (granted under PL98/409), and to construct a new entrance, new waste water treatment system and percolation area, new bored well, new drive way and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2097
20 Jul 2018Conditional
for the construction of a new slatted cattle shed, farmyard manure storage area, run-off water and effluent collection tanks, concrete yards and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 18284
29 Jun 2017Conditional
Seek retention permission for the altered house design as constructed from planning previously granted. Retention permission is also being sought for existing domestic sheds.
Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 17205
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballypierce.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballypierce.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballypierce.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballypierce, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballypierce.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballypierce with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballypierce · Baile Phiarais
- Area
- 2,529,430 m² (252.94 ha, 625.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Barragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- St. Mullin's Upper
- Electoral division
- Clonegall, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,105 people lived in 380 households in the Clonegall electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyshancarragh, Cranemore, Deerpark Old, Glebe, Kildavin, Lackabeg
- Placenames
- Ballypierce 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.