Ballysallagh Upper
Ballysallagh Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Hacketstown, barony of Rathvilly, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is An Baile Salach Uachtarach.
- Area
- 145 ha
- 358 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 15,953 m² (1.6 ha, 3.94 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballysallagh Upper, from 50 m² to 196,583 m² (19.66 ha, 48.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ballysallagh Upper 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Nov 2025Conditional
an existing camping facility (previously granted under planning reference 10/266 and 18/25 ) which includes retention of reading building, 1 static mobile home, 22 mobile caravan pitches, 30 tent pitches, existing hardcore standing driveways and areas, 4 storage sheds, installed wastewater system and associate works
Retention · Carlow County Council, 2560344
29 Apr 2021Conditional
the construction of a single storey dwelling, new entrance, septic tank and percolation area, bored well, domestic garage and all associated works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 21152
2 Feb 2018Conditional
Retention permission for an existing camping facility (previously granted under PRR PL10266) which includes retention of 6 no. mobile homes pitches, 4no. Static mobile home pitches, camping area, existing showers and toilet building, existing storage shed. Planning permission is also being sought for a parking area, an effluent disposal system to current EPA standards along with associated site development works and services.
Retention · Carlow County Council, 1825
18 Dec 2017N/a
Retention permission for an existing camping facility (previously granted under PRR PL 10266) which includes retention of 6 no. mobile home pitches, camping area, existing showers and toilet building, existing storage shed. Planning permission is also being sought for a parking area, an effluent disposal system to current EPA standards along with associated site development works and services.
Retention · Carlow County Council, 17354
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 Ballysallagh Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballysallagh Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballysallagh Upper.
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 Ballysallagh Upper, about 1 in 5 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballysallagh Upper.
- 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 Ballysallagh Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballysallagh Upper · An Baile Salach Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,449,879 m² (144.99 ha, 358.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Hacketstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathvilly
- Electoral division
- Hacketstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,226 people lived in 436 households in the Hacketstown electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinagilky, Ballysallagh Lower, Blindennis, Eaglehill, Eaglehill (Newton), Hacketstown Upper, Monastill
- Placenames
- Ballysallagh Upper 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.