Ballinlig
Ballinlig is a townland in the civil parish of Kilrainy, barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare. Its name in Irish is Baile an Loig.
- Area
- 160.2 ha
- 396 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 5,938 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlig, from 1,385 m² to 353,232 m² (35.32 ha, 87.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballinlig 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
26 Feb 2025Conditional
for (a) erection of single storey type house; (b) garage/fuel store for domestic use; (c) the installation of a septic tank and percolation area and (d) installation of new recessed entrance and all associated site works
Extension of duration, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2542
23 Sept 2024Conditional
for (A) development of a family apartment within the existing house and construction of a single storey extension to the rear (north east) elevation, (B) construction of front porch to serve the existing house with alterations to the front (south west) Elevation consisting of removal of existing bay windows and the insertion of new window fenestration throughout, (C) construction of single storey extension to rear (north west) and side (south east) Elevations, (D) the installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with polishing filter percolation area, (E) removal of existing single storey timber clad structure currently been used as a hair dressing salon and (F) Retention Permission for the partially built structure to the rear of the property and for the completion of the construction to contain the relocated hair dressing salon and garage/ store for domestic use
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460939
4 Nov 2021Conditional
for the following (a) 1 no. new Dormer type dwelling, (b) 1 no. new domestic garage (c) Installation of a new waste water treatment system (d) vehicular entrance (e) new landscaping and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211575
21 Aug 2019Conditional
(a) Erection of single storey type house; (b) Garage/fuel store for domestic use; (c) The installation of a septic tank and percolation area and (d) Installation of new recessed entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19945
23 May 2019Conditional
construction of a single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated ancillary site works. Revised by significant further information consisting of; New percolation area
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19579
12 Oct 2017Conditional
double storey extensions and a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, 2 single storey bay windows to the side, changes to the existing plans and elevations, demolition of the single storey sun room, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171147
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballinlig.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinlig.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinlig.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballinlig, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinlig.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballinlig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinlig · Baile an Loig
- Area
- 1,601,556 m² (160.16 ha, 395.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilrainy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Kilrainy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 773 people lived in 241 households in the Kilrainy electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyonan, Clonard New, Cornamucklagh, Garrisker, Kilrathmurry
- Placenames
- Ballinlig 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.