# Ballyryan, Co. Carlow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tullowmagimma, barony of Carlow, Co. Carlow; in Irish Baile Uí Riain. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 370,432 m² (37.04 ha, 91.54 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 97,509 m² (9.75 ha, 24.1 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Tullowmagimma, https://everytownland.com/carlow/parish/tullowmagimma.md - Barony: Carlow - Electoral division: Nurney, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 893 people lived in 294 households in the Nurney electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Carlow, https://everytownland.com/carlow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/3422 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 10108 - Centre: latitude 52.763875, longitude -6.895132 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyryan, from 65,632 m² (6.56 ha, 16.22 acres) to 111,236 m² (11.12 ha, 27.49 acres); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 799768: 111,236 m² (11.12 ha, 27.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/799768.md - Parcel 1918566: 99,264 m² (9.93 ha, 24.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1918566.md - Parcel 799769: 95,754 m² (9.58 ha, 23.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/799769.md - Parcel 1918565: 65,632 m² (6.56 ha, 16.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1918565.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyryan in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 28 Feb 2024, Carlow County Council 2460043: Refused. Permission. A 10 Year Planning Permission for a solar farm with a total area of circa 192 hectares. The solar farm will consist of solar panels on ground mounted frames, 30 no. single storey electrical inverter/transformer stations, 4 no. single storey spare parts containers, 4 no. Ring Main Units, 8 no. weather stations, underground electrical ducting and cabling within the development site, private lands and within the L3051, L3052 and L3050 public roads to connect solar farm field parcels, security fencing, CCTV, access tracks, 2 no. stream deck crossings and 1 no. horizontal directional drill, temporary construction compounds, landscaping and all associated ancillary development and drainage works. Construction and operational access will be via 4 no. entrances from the L3051, L3052 and L3050. The operational lifespan of the solar farm will be 40 years and planning permission is requested for this duration. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460043/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyryan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CW012-051: Concentric enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCW012-051----. Indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) with an outer hachured concentric enclosure at a distance of c. 15m. Shown on 1938-39 'OS 6-inch' map as circular raised area (diam. c. 30m). Visible on aerial photograph (GSI S 436) as circular area defined by cropmark of fosse. No visible surface traces. It is visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018) as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 34m) with an outer concentric sub-circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 65m). The fosses are c. 15-20m apart. The above 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. See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) Compiled by: Anna Brindley, Annaba Kilfeather and Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 11 February 2020 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyryan. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballyryan, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Ballyryan. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballyryan-10108.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballyryan-10108.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballyryan-10108.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyryan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow: https://everytownland.com/carlow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyloo: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballyloo.md - Ballyryan: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballyryan-10109.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballyryan-10108 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/carlow/ballyryan-10108