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
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
17 Oct 2024Conditional
alterations and additions to an existing single storey dwelling house, namely erection of a single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling, removal of existing lean-to extension to side of dwelling and removal of garage at rear of existing dwelling, internal alterations, and all associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2445
2 Sept 2024N/a
alteration and additions to an existing single storey dwelling house, namely erection of a single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling, removal of existing lean-to extension to side of dwelling and removal of garage at rear of existing dwelling, internal alterations, and all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2438
6 Aug 2024N/a
alterations and additions to an existing single storey dwelling house, namely erection of a single store extension to the rear of existing dwelling, removal of existing lean-to extension to the side of dwelling and removal of garage at rear of existing dwelling, internal alterations, and all ancillary site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2434
9 Dec 2020Conditional
Permission for retention of a wall and cappings to the front boundary of existing dwelling and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 20446
25 Mar 2020N/a
PL10/38 - The construction of a two storey dwelling, garage, mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter, a bored well and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Carlow County Council, 20108
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
- CW013-049001 Church
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 revision: 22 December 2009 Revised by: J. Farrelly Lowest courses of nave and chancel church (dims. c. 14m x c. 8.2m (nave c. 9.8m; chancel c. 4.2m), recorded by O'Toole (JKAS 1933, 280), still visible in small approximately rectangular graveyard (CW013-049002-) enclosed by wall.
- CW013-049002 Graveyard
Description
Small approximately rectangular graveyard (map dims. c. 25m NE-SW; c. 23m NW-SE) enclosed by wall. Lowest courses of church (CW013-049001-) visible in interior. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011
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.