Ballybought
Townland in the civil parish of St. John's, barony of Narragh and Reban West, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 19.6 ha
- 48 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 8,646 m² (0.86 ha, 2.14 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- Agriculture
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybought, from 55 m² to 50,351 m² (5.04 ha, 12.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P1Agriculture
Athy Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N2.2Transport and Utilities (Wastewater)
Athy Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
Athy Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
Athy Local Area Plan 2021 - 2027, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Feb 2022Conditional
the installation of 320m2 (70kW) of ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and all associated ancillary works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 22173
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
Recorded monuments
- KD035-101 Excavation - miscellaneous
Description
Archaeological monitoring (Fegan 2002. Excavation Licence No. 02E0300) of groundworks necessitated by the Fortbarrington Sewerage Scheme, S of Athy town and to the W of and in the flood-plain of the River Barrow, revealed three, squared, oak timbers lying in river sediments. The timbers lie 21m N of a small E-flowing tributary of the Barrow, which flows S c. 150m to the E. Two timbers were excavated; ‘Timber 1’ (L 1.97m; Wth 0.3m; T 0.25m) and ‘Timber 2’ (L 0.42m; Wth 0.3m; T 0.25m), while ‘Timber 3’ was recorded and preserved in situ (traceable L 3.57m E-W; Wth 0.21m; T 0.18m). The excavator suggests that the timbers may be revetments that were originally set into the bank of a stream, the course of which was subsequently diverted. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 09 January 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybought.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, 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_2399 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballybought with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybought
- Area
- 196,108 m² (19.61 ha, 48.46 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. John's, and its townlands
- Barony
- Narragh and Reban West
- Electoral division
- Athy Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Athy Rural electoral division: 4,548 people in 1,506 households; 65% of households own their home; 66% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardree, Ardrew, Bleach, Dunbrin Upper (Co. Laois), Tonlegee
- Placenames
- Ballybought 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.