Balkinstown

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balkinstown, from 538 m² to 384,634 m² (38.46 ha, 95.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Balkinstown 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.

• 31 Mar 2025Refused

  for Bungalow Type Dwelling with Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area with Vehicular Entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560332

• 24 Feb 2025N/a

  for Bungalow Type Dwelling with Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area with Vehicular Entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560173

• 1 Oct 2024Refused

  For Planning Permission sought Bungalow Type Dwelling with Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area with Vehicular Entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460988

• 8 Jul 2024Conditional

  for alterations to the existing two-storey dwelling. Works include the demolition of an existing front porch and an existing extension to the rear. A modified window on the front elevation. New extension to the rear with courtyard garden. Demolition of existing garden shed. An upgraded effluent treatment system. The closure of an existing site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460635

• 27 Jun 2024N/a

  for alterations to the existing two-storey dwelling. Works include the demolition of an existing front porch and an existing extension to the rear. A modified window on the front elevation. New extension to the rear with courtyard garden. Demolition of existing garden shed. An upgraded effluent treatment system. The closure of an existing site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460585

• 11 Mar 2024Refused

  alterations and partial demolition to the existing 181m2 dwelling and the construction of a 257m2 extension, an upgraded effluent treatment system and site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460215

• 8 Mar 2024N/a

  alterations and partial demolition to the existing 181m2 dwelling and the construction of a 257m2 extension, an upgraded effluent treatment system and site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460199

• 5 Oct 2023Conditional

  a new single storey dwelling house, new domestic vehicular entrance, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23927

• 31 Jul 2023Refused

  Bungalow Type Dwelling with Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area with Vehicular Entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360076

• 26 Oct 2022Refused

  A new single storey dwelling house, new domestic vehicular entrance to replace existing agricultural entrance, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system with polishing filter and all associated siteworks.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221270

• 10 Jan 2020Conditional

  (a) single storey extension to side of existing dwelling house, (c) minor internal modifications, connection to all existing services on site and all associated development works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2016

• 10 Jun 2019Conditional

  of sun room to the front of existing two storey dwelling, retention of existing domestic outbuildings and all ancillary site development works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 19656

• 2 Jul 2018Conditional

  proposed single storey bungalow, domestic garage, recessed entrance, septic tank and secondary effluent treatment system, percolation area, new connection to public water mains and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18790

• 21 Mar 2018N/a

  to extend and renovate their current family home. Works include a storey and half extension to the rear of the property, additional half storey above part of the existing to include additional living and dining space, first floor bedroom, studio and bathroom. Alterations to the ground floor layout of the property and new external insulation and render is proposed for the existing building. Retention planning permission is also being sought for the existing garage to the rear of the property

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18302

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• KD027-032 Fulacht fia
  Description

  One of three small, closely associated mounds (KD027-032---- KD027-033---- and KD027-034----) shown on the current ed. (1939) of the OS 6-inch map lying parallel to and just SW of a small stream. In level pasture. No visible surface trace of any of the mounds - possible fulachtaí fia - survived in 1986 (SMR file). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 16 October 2012

• KD027-033 Fulacht fia
  Description

  One of three small, closely associated mounds (KD027-032---- KD027-033---- and KD027-034----) shown on the current ed. (1939) of the OS 6-inch map lying parallel to and just SW of a small stream. In level pasture. No visible surface trace of any of the mounds - possible fulachtaí fia - survived in 1986 (SMR file). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 16 October 2012

• KD027-034 Fulacht fia
  Description

  One of three small, closely associated mounds (KD027-032---- KD027-033---- and KD027-034----) shown on the current ed. (1939) of the OS 6-inch map lying parallel to and just SW of a small stream. In level pasture. No visible surface trace of any of the mounds - possible fulachtaí fia - survived in 1986 (SMR file). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 16 October 2012

• KD031-002 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  On a low knoll in level pasture. Shown on the OS 25-inch map as a small oval shaped mound(approx. int. diam. c. 18m NNE-SSW; c. 10m ENE-WSW; approx. H 6m) enclosed by a broad bank with a trigonometrical station on the bank at SE (marked OD 254 feet on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map) and named ‘Susan’s Fort’. Gravel pits have been dug out of the knoll and no visible surface trace of an enclosing element was visible in 1987 (SMR file). In recent times a human skull was discovered in the exposed section of a gravel pit in the NE quadrant of the monument. The skull was retrieved by the NMI and verified as an ancient skull by Laureen Buckley. A number of exposed section faces in the monument indicate a multi-layered construction. There are a number of badger sets on the monument so it is likely that the skull was displaced by animals. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 20 January 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2502 (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.

No address of the register names Balkinstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Balkinstown

Area

1,233,486 m² (123.35 ha, 304.8 acres)

Civil parish

Nurney, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Nurney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Nurney electoral division: 1,196 people in 361 households; 86% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clarey, Coolyphullagh, Gorteen Upper, Kildoon, Nurney, Nurney Demesne

Placenames

Balkinstown 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.