Bauck
Townland in the civil parish of St. Mullins, barony of St. Mullin's Lower, Co. Carlow; in Irish An Bac
- Area
- 77.1 ha
- 191 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 2,166 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bauck, from 1 m² to 107,840 m² (10.78 ha, 26.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Bauck 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
28 Oct 2025Conditional
an agricultural shed part for livestock with slatted storage tank and part for storage of straw and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560330
14 May 2025Conditional
the installation of a new drainage pipe to an existing open drain as part of restoration work of the bog and the construction of a new wooden boardwalk, passing points and observation platform for safe access to the bog, along with all associated site and landscaping works. This submission includes a Natura Impact Statement (NIS), Archaeological Impact Assessment (AIA) and other associated documentation for these works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560123
28 Feb 2023Conditional
Permission for retention of extension to existing dwelling house and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2360025
11 May 2020Refused
to demolish existing dwelling house and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement is submitted with this application.
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 20147
29 May 2017Conditional
for retention of granny flat extension to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 17176
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
Recorded monuments
- CW026-021 Ringfort - cashel
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 upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Circular area (diam. 26m) enclosed by drystone wall (H 1.1m; T 2m). Entrance at SE (Wth 1.8m) with drystone-built E jamb still partly preserved. Some possible wall foundations in interior.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bauck.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bauck.
- 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 Bauck with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Bauck · An Bac
- Area
- 771,153 m² (77.12 ha, 190.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Mullins, and its townlands
- Barony
- St. Mullin's Lower
- Electoral division
- Glynn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glynn electoral division: 395 people in 136 households; 91% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyknock, Drummin, St. Mullin's
- Placenames
- Bauck 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.