# Ballaghmoon, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Ballaghmoon, barony of Kilkea and Moone, Co. Kildare; in Irish Bealach Múna.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,088,329 m² (108.83 ha, 268.93 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,772 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Ballaghmoon, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/ballaghmoon.md
- Barony: Kilkea and Moone
- Electoral division: Ballaghmoon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 223 people lived in 80 households in the Ballaghmoon electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24903
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80035
- Centre: latitude 52.878491, longitude -6.88415 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghmoon, from 841 m² to 775,528 m² (77.55 ha, 191.64 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1053885: 775,528 m² (77.55 ha, 191.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1053885.md
- Parcel 1073245: 108,444 m² (10.84 ha, 26.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1073245.md
- Parcel 5332350: 94,054 m² (9.41 ha, 23.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5332350.md
- Parcel 1084582: 90,582 m² (9.06 ha, 22.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1084582.md
- Parcel 1089355: 2,808 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089355.md
- Parcel 1074007: 2,772 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1074007.md
- Parcel 1024940: 2,606 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1024940.md
- Parcel 1054216: 2,404 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1054216.md
- Parcel 1038504: 1,822 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1038504.md
- Parcel 1057412: 1,061 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1057412.md
- Parcel 1036929: 841 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1036929.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ballaghmoon 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)

7 applications, newest first.

- 26 May 2026, Kildare County Council 2660550: Conditional. Permission. Replacement (“restringing”) and uprating of c.8.89km section of the conductor along the existing Athy - Carlow 110 kV OHL circuit; - Provision of fibre communication connection on the uprated circuit; - Replacement of 11No. existing Intermediate Wooden Polesets, with similar structures. The replacement of these structures will result in standardised heights from 16m to 24m, with height increases between 1m and 3m; - Replacement of 12No. existing intermediate Wooden Polesets crossarms; - Recapping works on shear blocks at 1No. existing steel angle mast; - Foundation strengthening of 1No. existing steel angle mast; - Bar member replacements to 8No. existing steel angle masts; - Separation of the existing double OHL circuit to provide for a new bypass OHL section measuring approximately 422m, connecting from the existing Athy 110 kV substation to the following proposed new structures on the existing Athy - Portlaoise 110 kV OHL: 2no. new single circuit angle masts (approximately 22.5m maximum height) and 1no. new wooden poleset (approximately 23.6m maximum height); and, - All associated works/development to existing structures, including hardware replacement (strain clamps, suspension clamps and vibration dampers), replacement of step bolts, replacement of line identification and danger notices, painting of angle masts, replacement/installation of anti-climbing guards, access tracks, vegetation clearance, temporary construction compounds and all other works necessary to facilitate the development. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660550/0
- 28 Jul 2025, Kildare County Council 2560851: Refused. Permission. Retention permission and permission for development that consists of: Existing pre-1963 self-contained unit with altered independent access, retention of four no. single-storey commercial units in use as industry and warehousing; additional vehicular entrance to the north of the site, storage and parking yard; signage, site lighting. landscaping and boundary treatments and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including permission for a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, (Note: a small portion of the subject site and an additional building is in Gorteengrone, Co. Carlow which is the subject of a concurrent planning application Carlow Co. Council Pl. Ref. 2560051). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560851/0
- 28 Feb 2025, Carlow County Council 2560051: N/a. Retention. The development consists of the retention of one no. single-storey commercial unit and a portion of a single storey commercial unit in use as industry and warehousing; a storage and hard surfaced parking yard; and permission for the decommissioning of the existing septic tank, new site lighting, landscaping and boundary treatments and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, to connect to a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area. (Note: the wastewater treatment system and percolation area are the subject of the separate retention/permission planning application to Kildare Co. Council).. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560051/0
- 28 Feb 2025, Kildare County Council 2560198: N/a. Retention. for retention permission and permission for development that consists of: four no. single-storey commercial units in use as industry and warehousing; alterations to existing access and additional vehicular entrance, storage and parking yard; site lighting, landscaping and boundary treatments and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including permission for a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560198/0
- 20 Dec 2024, Kildare County Council 2461384: N/a. Retention. for four no. single-storey commercial units in use as industry and warehousing; alterations to existing access and additional vehicular entrance, storage and parking yard; site lighting, landscaping and boundary treatments and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461384/0
- 16 Dec 2024, Carlow County Council 2460411: N/a. Retention. development ( Note: the main portion of the subject site and additional buildings are in Kocknagee, Co. Kildare, R93 PD78 which is the subject of a concurrent planning application) The development consists of: one no. single-storey commercial unit in use as industry and warehousing; alterations to existing access and additional vehicular entrance, storage and parking yard; site lighting, landscaping and boundary treatments and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460411/0
- 16 Dec 2024, Kildare County Council 2461350: N/a. Retention. for four no. single-storey commercial units in use as industry and warehousing; alterations to existing access and additional vehicular entrance, storage and parking yard; site lighting, landscaping and boundary treatments and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461350/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC, site code 002162, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002162

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- KD039-014: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD039-014----. Church ruins in S quadrant of graveyard (KD039-014001-). A simple rectangular structure (dims. 17m x 6m) of undressed, mortared, roughly coursed limestone, completely overgrown with ivy. Only the E portion still stands. There are two narrow lights with rear splays (and possible round heads) in the E gable, and one small rubble arch in the S wall close to the E corner (H. 0.8m). Its purpose is unclear; if it functioned as an entrance, there appears to have been a considerable build-up of the ground level, both inside and outside the church. Date of upload: 6 September 2016
- KD039-014001: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD039-014001-. Church ruins (KD039-014----) in S quadrant of sub-rectangular shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 44m N-S x 75m E-W). Date of upload: 6 September 2016
- KD039-015: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD039-015----. Shown as a rectangular enclosure defined by a bank with an external fosse on the 1837 OS 6-inch map (dims. c. 50m N-S x c. E-W). Aerial photographs (CUCAP ASU 83, BOC 60) show a cropmark of a broad fosse surrounding a rectangular area. Levelled c. 1890 during which 'an unflagged chamber, full of black barley and ashes.. ' which filled twenty-seven cartloads was uncovered, probably a corn-drying kiln (JKAS 1896, 193-4). Situated on a slight SW facing slope, in a tillage area. Probably a moated site. No visible surface traces. Date of upload: 6 September 2016
- KD039-017: Ring-ditch, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD039-017----. Aerial photographs (CUCAP AYL 53) shows the cropmark of a fosse defining a circular area (est. max diam. c. 30m). Probably a ring-barrow or ring-ditch. One of a complex of similar sites (See also KD039-018----/-022----). Date of upload: 6 September 2016
- KD039-018: Ring-ditch, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD039-018----. Aerial photograph (CUCAP AYL 53) shows the cropmark of a fosse defining a circular area (est. max diam. c. 30m). Probably a ring-barrow or ring-ditch. One of a complex of similar sites (See also KD039-018----/-022----). Date of upload: 6 September 2016
- KD039-019: Ring-ditch, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD039-019----. Aerial photograph (CUCAP AYL 53) shows the cropmark of a fosse defining a small circular area (est. max diam. c. 20m). Probably a ring-barrow or ring-ditch. One of a complex of similar sites (See also KD039-018----/-022----).
- KD039-020: Ring-ditch, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD039-020----. Aerial photograph (CUCAP AYL 53) shows the cropmark of a fosse defining a small, circular area (est. max diam. c. 15m). Probably a ring-barrow or ring-ditch. One of a complex of similar sites (See also KD039-018----/-022----). Date of upload: 6 September 2016
- KD039-021: Ring-ditch, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD039-021----. Aerial photograph (CUCAP AYL 53) shows the cropmark of a fosse defining a small, circular area (est. max diam. c. 15m). Probably a ring-barrow or ring-ditch. One of a complex of similar sites (See also KD039-018----/-022----). Date of upload: 6 September 2016
- KD039-022: Ring-ditch, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD039-022----. Aerial photograph (CUCAP AYL 53) shows the cropmark of a fosse defining a small, circular area (est. max diam. c. 15m). Probably a ring-barrow or ring-ditch. One of a complex of similar sites (See also KD039-018----/-022----). Date of upload: 6 September 2016
- KD039-054: Barrow - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD039-054----. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 8m) in centre of a larger enclosure (approx. diam. 20m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 25/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 10 September 2019

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 Ballaghmoon.

## 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 Ballaghmoon, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2547, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2547.zip (ZIP).
- 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/kildare/ballaghmoon.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ballaghmoon.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ballaghmoon.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ballaghmoon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballaghmoon Castle: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ballaghmoon-castle.md
- Gorteenvacan: https://everytownland.com/kildare/gorteenvacan.md
- Knocknagee: https://everytownland.com/kildare/knocknagee.md
- Newtownallen: https://everytownland.com/kildare/newtownallen.md
- Prumpelstown Upper: https://everytownland.com/kildare/prumpelstown-upper.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.

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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.

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