Ballycaghan
Townland in the civil parish of Cloncurry, barony of Ikeathy and Oughterany, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 155.9 ha
- 385 acres
- Land parcels
- 76
- registered freehold, median 3,293 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 20
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycaghan, from 37 m² to 218,171 m² (21.82 ha, 53.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ballycaghan 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
15 Apr 2026Conditional
A family cluster type development, including an existing family member dwelling KCC Planning Ref: 21690 and a proposed new dwelling for the applicant: (A) with part one and a half storey, part single storey type house, (B) garage / fuel store for domestic use, (C) the installation of a proprietary waste water treatment system with sand filter polishing filter, (D) Existing vehicular entrance on adjoining site to become shared entry between both existing & new dwelling, with part combined access driveway, and secondary gates off each driveway to each individual house and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660411
14 Apr 2026N/a
A family cluster type development, including an existing family member dwelling KCC Planning Ref: 21690 and a proposed new dwelling for the applicant: (A) with part one and a half storey, part single storey type house, (B) garage / fuel store for domestic use, (C) the installation of a proprietary waste water treatment system with sand filter polishing filter, (D) Existing vehicular entrance on adjoining site to become shared entry between both existing & new dwelling, with part combined access driveway, and secondary gates off each driveway to each individual house and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660397
8 Apr 2026N/a
A family cluster type development, including an existing family member dwelling KCC Planning Ref: 21690 and a proposed new dwelling for the applicant: (A) with part one and a half storey, part single storey type house, (B) garage / fuel store for domestic use, (C) the installation of a proprietary waste water treatment system with sand filter polishing filter, (D) Existing vehicular entrance on adjoining site to become shared entry between both existing & new dwelling, with part combined access driveway, and secondary gates off each driveway to each individual house and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660377
19 Aug 2025Refused
A family cluster type development, including an existing family member dwelling KCC Planning Ref: 21690 and a proposed new dwelling for the applicant: (A) with part one and a half storey, part single storey type house (B) garage / fuel store for domestic use (C) the installation of a proprietary waste water treatment system with sand filter polishing filter (D) new combined recessed vehicular entrance and access driveway and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560945
8 Aug 2025N/a
for (A) part one and a half storey, part single storey type house to form part of a family cluster (B) garage / fuel store for domestic use (C) the installation of a proprietary waste water treatment system with sand filter polishing filter (D) new combined recessed vehicular entrance and access driveway and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560913
26 Apr 2024Conditional
for existing single story shed for vintage tractor and car storage, and retention of existing percolation area and sewage treatment system as installed and all associated site works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460368
19 Apr 2024N/a
for retention permission for existing single story shed for vintage tractor and car storage, retention of existing percolation area and sewage treatment system as installed and all associated site works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460337
15 Sept 2023Conditional
for a single storey extension to side and rear of two storey detached dwelling together with associated siteworks
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360216
1 Sept 2023N/a
for a single storey extension to side and rear of two storey detached dwelling together with associated siteworks
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360164
22 Aug 2023Conditional
the demolition of existing single storey detached house with permission for the construction of a replacement two storey house with single storey element with integrated family unit, upgrade existing septic tank with secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2360133
21 Aug 2023Conditional
change of House Type on my site previously granted under planning Ref.16/424 and 21/831 for 4 bedroom two storey house to redesigned 4 bed two storey house along with all associated site developments works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360130
18 Aug 2023N/a
for change of House Type on my site previously granted under planning Ref.16/424 and 21/831 for 4 bedroom two storey house to redesigned 4 bed two storey house along with all associated site developments works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360125
10 Aug 2022Conditional
1. New farm entrance from public road. 2. Milking Parlour, drafting yard, collecting yard with soiled water tank, dairy, plant room, farm office and meal bin. 3. Slurry tank and extension of existing livestock shed. 4. Dry Store. 5. Concrete yards and all ancillary works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 22982
14 Apr 2022Refused
sought for two storey house, new 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, 22447
4 Apr 2022N/a
Planning Permission previously granted under 07/2198. 16424 and 21831 at Ballycaghan, Kilcock, County Kildare, for two storey house, new 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, 22384
9 Jun 2021Conditional
Extension of Duration of Planning Ref. 16/424 - two storey house, domestic garage, secondary effluent tratment system and all ancillary works and services. (previous planning) granted on this site under Ref. No. 07/2198.
Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 21831
19 May 2021Conditional
(A) part one and a half storey, part single storey type house (B) garage/fuel store for domestic use (C) the installation of a proprietary waste water treatment system with sand filter polishing filter (D) new combined recessed vehicular entrance and access driveway and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21690
30 Apr 2021Conditional
Permission to vary previous Planning Permission as granted (reference No.11/545 and extended permission as granted under the extension of duration planning reference No.16/1032) to consist of revision of house and garage design from that as previously granted, inclusive of all ancillary and associated site works (as previously granted ref no 16/1032 and 11/545)
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21592
26 Feb 2020Conditional
for extension and minor modifications to existing Two Storey House (previously granted under file ref. 98/1443. To include; Conservatory to side of house on North-Western elevation. Bay window to side of house on South-Eastern elevation. Two storey rear extension and minor modifications to protruding two storey section and canopy area over front entrance to front elevation. Velux roof light in roof to front elevation. And also retain 2 no. stables, domestic garage/agricultural shed. All contained under the same single storey building and all associated site development works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 20184
16 Jun 2017Conditional
Change of house type and relocation of domestic garage. No change to the previously permitted effluent treatment system, recessed entrance and associated site works as previously granted planning permission file no. 071722 and 12284
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17708
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 Ballycaghan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballycaghan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycaghan.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_2680 (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 Ballycaghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballycaghan
- Area
- 1,558,716 m² (155.87 ha, 385.17 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloncurry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ikeathy and Oughterany
- Electoral division
- Cloncurry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cloncurry electoral division: 1,648 people in 512 households; 90% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycanon, Duncreevan, Grange, Hodgestown, Killickaweeny, Pitchfordstown, Portgloriam
- Placenames
- Ballycaghan 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.