Ballyshancarragh
Townland in the civil parish of Barragh, barony of St. Mullin's Upper, Co. Carlow; in Irish Baile Sheáin Charraigh
- Area
- 122.3 ha
- 302 acres
- Land parcels
- 49
- registered freehold, median 3,854 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyshancarragh, from 55 m² to 214,179 m² (21.42 ha, 52.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyshancarragh 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
21 Aug 2024Conditional
to construct an agricultural entrance with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2460248
18 Aug 2023Conditional
Retention planning permission is sought for a domestic store and all associated works
Retention · Carlow County Council, 2360179
16 Aug 2023N/a
Retention planning permission is sought for a domestic store and all associated works
Retention · Carlow County Council, 2360174
2 Jul 2020Conditional
(1) construct an extension to the rear and side of existing dwelling & upgrade of on-site sewerage facilities (2) demolish existing storage shed to make way for said extension & (3) construct new domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 20219
22 Jun 2017Conditional
to construct a new proposed two storey dormer style dwelling house, single storey detached domestic garage, on site domestic waste water treatment system and percolation area, new bored well, new site entrance to public road and all associated site developments works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 17200
22 Jun 2017Conditional
the erection of a dwelling house, entrance, domestic garage, installation of sewerage treatment plant, polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 17201
2 Jun 2017N/a
Planning Permission to construct a new proposed two storey dormer style dwelling house, single storey detached domestic garage, on site domestic waste water treatment system and percolation area, new bored well, new site entrance to public road and all associated site developments works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 17184
26 May 2017N/a
the erection of a dwelling house, entrance, domestic garage, installation of sewerage treatment plant, polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 17174
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 Ballyshancarragh.
Recorded monuments
- CW017-071 Enclosure
Description
In tillage. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 22m) identified as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 7 December 2021). Two other smaller, overlapping enclosures (CW018-022----; CW018-023----) are also visible c. 40m to the NE. See attached: CW017-071----_01 satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 7 December 2021) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 7 December 2021
- CW018-022 Ring-ditch
Description
In tillage. A small circular enclosure (diam. c. 13m) identified as the cropmark of a fosse on satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 7 December 2021). A similarly sized enclosure (CW018-023----) overlaps the NE sector. A larger enclosure (CW018-071----) is also visible as a cropmark c. 40m to the SW. See attached: CW018-022----_01 satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 7 December 2021) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 7 December 2021
- CW018-023 Ring-ditch
Description
In tillage. A small circular enclosure (diam. c. 13m) identified as the cropmark of a fosse on satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 7 December 2021). A similarly sized enclosure (CW018-022----) appears to underlie the SW sector. A larger enclosure (CW018-071----) is also visible as a cropmark c. 40m to the SW. See attached: CW018-023----_01 satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 7 December 2021) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 7 December 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyshancarragh.
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
- 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 Ballyshancarragh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyshancarragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyshancarragh · Baile Sheáin Charraigh
- Area
- 1,223,401 m² (122.34 ha, 302.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Barragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- St. Mullin's Upper
- Electoral division
- Clonegall, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clonegall electoral division: 1,105 people in 380 households; 84% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvally, Ballypierce, Cranemore, Lackabeg, Raheen
- Placenames
- Ballyshancarragh 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.