# Borough, Co. Carlow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Hacketstown, barony of Rathvilly, Co. Carlow; in Irish Bruigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 671,848 m² (67.18 ha, 166.02 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 24,622 m² (2.46 ha, 6.08 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Hacketstown, https://everytownland.com/carlow/parish/hacketstown.md - Barony: Rathvilly - Electoral division: Hacketstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Carlow, https://everytownland.com/carlow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/3032 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 10148 - Centre: latitude 52.873418, longitude -6.552117 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Borough, from 750 m² to 195,053 m² (19.51 ha, 48.2 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 796522: 195,053 m² (19.51 ha, 48.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/796522.md - Parcel 805924: 109,517 m² (10.95 ha, 27.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/805924.md - Parcel 796408: 85,568 m² (8.56 ha, 21.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/796408.md - Parcel 796508: 84,664 m² (8.47 ha, 20.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/796508.md - Parcel 784255: 73,950 m² (7.4 ha, 18.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/784255.md - Parcel 806017: 56,734 m² (5.67 ha, 14.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/806017.md - Parcel 805925: 38,747 m² (3.87 ha, 9.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/805925.md - Parcel 796518: 10,496 m² (1.05 ha, 2.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/796518.md - Parcel 805922: 7,032 m² (0.7 ha, 1.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/805922.md - Parcel 806018: 3,627 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/806018.md - Parcel 796407: 2,616 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/796407.md - Parcel 796517: 1,872 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/796517.md - Parcel 805923: 1,227 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/805923.md - Parcel 805921: 750 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/805921.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Borough in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 27 Jun 2019, Carlow County Council 19257: N/a. Permission. dredging along a 180m length of a leat off the River Derreen that supplies water to Hacketstown Water Treatment Plant. The works consist of the removal of up to 0.3m of silt from the bed of the leat and the spreading of this material on the left bank. A Natura Impact Statement accompanies this planning application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19257/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC, site code 000781, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000781 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CW005-003: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCW005-003----. 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. 37m) with field bank from N-SE-SW. Possibly a tree ring. Not marked on 1839 'OS 6-inch' map although trig point (576ft) is shown on site. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Borough. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Borough, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Borough. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/carlow/borough.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/carlow/borough.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/carlow/borough.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Borough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow: https://everytownland.com/carlow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballybrack More (Co. Wicklow): https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballybrack-more.md - Hacketstown Lower: https://everytownland.com/carlow/hacketstown-lower.md - Kilmacart: https://everytownland.com/carlow/kilmacart.md - Rathnafushoge: https://everytownland.com/carlow/rathnafushoge.md - Scotland: https://everytownland.com/carlow/scotland.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/carlow/borough - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/carlow/borough