Ballyroughan Big

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyroughan Big, from 34 m² to 299,075 m² (29.91 ha, 73.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Ballyroughan Big 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.

• 7 Aug 2026N/a

  a dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660249

• 25 Jun 2025Conditional

  The renovation of an existing two story cottage, construction of new side extensions, domestic well, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area including all associate site and landscaping works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2560184

• 14 Sept 2020Conditional

  Retention for (1) Excavation to rear of existing buildings. (2) Change of use of agricultural shed to commercial building for the manufacture of furniture and permission to construct a retaining wall around excavated area for parking and all associated site works

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 20318

• 28 May 2020Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, bored well, new splayed entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 20159

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 Ballyroughan Big.

Recorded monuments

• CW024-005 Ringfort - rath
  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 Shown on 1839 'OS 6-inch' map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 33m). Present remains consist of a small portion of stone-faced bank at S incorporated in adjacent field boundary. Stone facing probably modern.

• CW024-006 Ringfort - rath
  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 Oval area (31m N-S, 43m E-W) divided by N-S field boundary. Bank visible from S-W-N; elsewhere monument survives as platform (H c. 1.1m). Possible entrance at W.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyroughan Big.

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

Name

Ballyroughan Big · Baile Uí Ruacháin Mór

Area

1,123,781 m² (112.38 ha, 277.69 acres)

Civil parish

Ullard, and its townlands

Barony

St. Mullin's Lower

Electoral division

Marley, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykeenan, Ballyroughan Little, Coolnamara, Mullannaskeagh, Newtown, Tinnacarrig

Placenames

Ballyroughan Big 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.