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Ballyveal

Townland in the civil parish of Kellistown, barony of Forth, Co. Carlow; in Irish Baile Bheithil

Area
80.4 ha
199 acres
Land parcels
9
registered freehold, median 2,486 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres)
Zoning
not in a zoned settlement
Planning
5
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

BallyvealBallykealeyKilknock
500 m
19 parcels, click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyveal, from 1,338 m² to 276,300 m² (27.63 ha, 68.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Ballyveal 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

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 Ballyveal.

Recorded monuments

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.
Terrain model
LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2633 (ZIP).
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 Ballyveal with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

The townland

Name
Ballyveal · Baile Bheithil
Area
803,606 m² (80.36 ha, 198.58 acres)
Civil parish
Kellistown, and its townlands
Barony
Forth
Electoral division
Rathrush, the unit of the census
Census 2022
Rathrush electoral division: 1,139 people in 350 households; 92% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Ballykealey, Kilknock
Placenames
Ballyveal 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.