Ballybarney
Ballybarney is a townland in the civil parish of Davidstown, barony of Narragh and Reban East, Co. Kildare. Its name in Irish is Baile na Bearna.
- Area
- 159.9 ha
- 395 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 4,398 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybarney, from 198 m² to 167,351 m² (16.74 ha, 41.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Ballybarney 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
27 Jul 2026N/a
for the existing house location and finished floor level on site to that previously approved under Planning File Ref No. 98/1089. Planning Permission for a single storey extension to the Side (north) Elevation, Rear (west) Elevation and Side (south) Elevation and new entrance porch to the Front ( east) Elevation and the insertion of new windows to the existing bungalow garage / store for domestic use, the decommissioning of the existing septic tank and the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system with polishing filter percolation area, and the closing up of the unauthorised entrance piers and gateway into the existing house with the upgrading of the existing agricultural field gateway to a new combined vehicular recessed entrance and access driveway to serve the dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660857
24 Jul 2026N/a
(A) Retention Permission for the existing house location and finished floor level on site to that previously approved under Planning File Ref No. 98/1089, (B) Planning Permission for a single storey extension to the Side (north) Elevation, Rear (west) Elevation and Side (south) Elevation and new entrance porch to the Front ( east) Elevation and the insertion of new windows to the existing bungalow, (C) garage / store for domestic use, (D) the decommissioning of the existing septic tank and the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system with polishing filter percolation area, and (E) the closing up of the unauthorised entrance piers and gateway into the existing house with the upgrading of the existing agricultural field gateway to a new combined vehicular recessed entrance and access driveway to serve the dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660848
5 Jun 2025Conditional
for the erection of a single storey 4-bedroom dwelling including a TGD Part M compliant double bedroom suite & wheelchair accessible en-suite bathroom, domestic proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter, a well for a potable water supply, a new site entrance from an existing private laneway, and all site works including a driveway, entrance gates and site landscaping
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560615
21 May 2025N/a
for the erection of a single storey 4-bedroom dwelling including a TGD Part M compliant double bedroom suite & wheelchair accessible en-suite bathroom, domestic proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter, a well for a potable water supply, a new site entrance from an existing private laneway, and all site works including a driveway, entrance gates and site landscaping
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560537
21 May 2024Conditional
for a) proposed new single story dwelling, b) domestic garage, c) new double recessed vehicle entrance, d) closing up of existing agricultural entrance, e) treatment system & percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460442
21 Jul 2023Conditional
to retain the existing domestic garage, also all associated site development and facilitating works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2360056
28 Jun 2023Refused
single storey house, agricultural shed, upgrade of existing agricultural entrance to recessed entrance, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site development works. Revised by Significant Information of drawings and design submitted with Site Location has changed.
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23718
23 Jun 2023N/a
single storey house, agricultural shed, upgrade of existing agricultural entrance, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site development works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23700
16 Mar 2022Refused
the erection of a single storey dwelling containing three bedrooms, a combined kitchen/living/dining room, snug, play room, home office, as well as ancillary bathroom, utility and hallway accommodation, domestic proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter, a well for a potable water supply, a new site entrance from an existing private laneway, and all site works including a driveway, entrance gates and site landscaping
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22298
23 Feb 2022Refused
Sought for single storey house, upgrade of existing agricultural entrance to recessed entrance. Single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22191
20 Sept 2021Refused
for the erection of a single storey dwelling containing three bedrooms, a combined kitchen/living/dining room, snug, play room, home office, as well as ancillary bathroom, utility and hallway accommodation, domestic proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter, a well for a potable water supply, a new site entrance from an existing private laneway, and all site works including a driveway entrance gates and site landscaping.
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211337
4 Jun 2021Refused
the erection of a single storey dwelling containing three bedrooms, a combined kitchen/living/dining room, snug, play room, home office, as well as ancillary bathroom, utility and hallway accommodation, domestic proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter, a well for a potable water supply, a new site entrance from an existing private laneway, and all site works including a driveway, entrance gates and site landscaping
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21799
7 Feb 2020Conditional
a bungalow, recessed residential entrance, wastewater treatment system and raised sand polishing filter, replace septic tank serving existing dwelling with new wastewater treatment system and raised sand polishing filter and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2095
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 Ballybarney.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballybarney.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybarney.
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 Ballybarney, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Ballybarney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybarney · Baile na Bearna
- Area
- 1,598,972 m² (159.9 ha, 395.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Davidstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Narragh and Reban East
- Electoral division
- Narraghmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 867 people lived in 257 households in the Narraghmore electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Blackhall, Bullhill, Hillfarm, Lipstown, Lipstown Lower, Lipstown Upper
- Placenames
- Ballybarney 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.