Ballindrum

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballindrum, from 27 m² to 951,200 m² (95.12 ha, 235.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballindrum 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.

• 28 Aug 2026N/a

  for a milking parlour (3), dairy (5), machine room (4) and meal bin, walled manure pit (12A), slurry tank (T1) and slatted feeding area (12C & 19), 2 no. loose houses (9 & 8A), cubicle shed (16) and unroofed cubicles (17), roofed silage pit (15) and unroofed, walled silage pit (15), feed store (13) concrete yards (A & 18), hardcore yards and all ancillary works. The new development will consist of the erection of a roof over existing collecting yard (3A) and new slurry tank (T3), cattle drafting yard (3B), roof over existing manure pit (12A), feed passage (12B) and unroofed slatted feeding area (12C), roof over existing loose yard ((11) previously granted permission under Pl. Ref. 07/466), underground slatted slurry tank (T3) and underground slabbed soiled water tank (T4), alterations to existing farm road, concrete yards and ancillary works.

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2660971

• 6 Mar 2026N/a

  Renewable Energy Directive (REDIII) Development. Application for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a solar PV energy development (renewable energy development) with a total site area of 137.7 hectares, comprising of the construction of PV panels mounted on metal frames, inverters, internal access tracks, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, electrical cabling and ducting, creation of a new access off the L8017, a temporary construction compound, landscaping and all ancillary infrastructure and associated works. The solar farm would be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of this application. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660249

• 26 Jan 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a part single-storey, part two-storey dwelling; recessed residential entrance; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including a new secondary treatment system and soil polishing filter. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of Relocation of proposed entrance; change of house design from a new - build part single-storey dwelling tot he refurbishment and single storey extension of the existing single storey vernacular cottage and the relocation of site services.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460050

• 14 Oct 2021Conditional

  to erect a new two storey dwelling with attached out building comprising of a garage, farm office and utilities store, new septic tank, percolation area and all ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211486

• 5 Feb 2021Conditional

  to construct a bungalow dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, bored well, new splayed entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21123

• 12 Jul 2019Conditional

  Retention of garage conversion to master bedroom, kitchen/bathroom extension to rear, porch to front of dwelling, detached garage and sundry minor works. Revised by significant further information consisting of; proposed upgrading of existing wastewater treatment system

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 19796

• 27 Apr 2018Conditional

  to construct a livestock underpass and all associated site-works across the L8017 Road

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18484

• 21 Aug 2017Refused

  to construct a road underpass for agricultural use along with all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 17949

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballindrum.

Recorded monuments

• KD035-071 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett on 13 July 1990. Aerial photograph (GB90.BT.19) shows the cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse, with a smaller enclosure or ring-ditch attached on the south-east. Located in close proximity to sub-rectangular enclosure (KD035-071001-) and a large, incomplete curvilinear enclosure (KD035-072----). Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

• KD035-071001 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett on 13 July 1990. Aerial photograph (GB90.BT.19) shows the cropmark of a sub-rectangular enclosure defined by a fosse. Located in close proximity to a circular enclosure defined by a fosse, with a smaller enclosure or ring-ditch attached on the south-east (KD035-071----) and a large, incomplete curvilinear enclosure (KD035-072----). Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

• KD035-072 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett on 13 July 1990. Aerial photograph (GB90.BT.19) shows the cropmark of the western half of an incomplete curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse, and bisected N-S by a later field boundary. Located in close proximity to a sub-rectangular enclosure defined by a fosse (KD035-071001-) and a circular enclosure defined by a fosse, with a smaller enclosure or ring-ditch attached on the south-east (KD035-071----). Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

• KD035-123 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of small circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 30m) visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018 See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Pat Reid Date of upload: 05 December 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballindrum, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Ballindrum.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballindrum with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Ballindrum

Area

2,716,910 m² (271.69 ha, 671.36 acres)

Civil parish

Narraghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Burtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

421 people lived in 157 households in the Burtown electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardscull, Burtown Big, Burtown Little, Glassely, Kilmead, Mullamast

Placenames

Ballindrum 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.