Ballycanon
Townland in the civil parish of Cloncurry, barony of Ikeathy and Oughterany, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 242.1 ha
- 598 acres
- Land parcels
- 76
- registered freehold, median 4,348 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycanon, from 59 m² to 221,497 m² (22.15 ha, 54.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Ballycanon 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
18 Dec 2025Conditional
a two storey style dwelling with a detached domestic garage, a domestic wastewater disposal system, a new site entrance, and all associated site works; Revised by Significant Further Information which consist of a revised site layout plan including a new storey and a half style dwelling and detached single storey domestic garage design, new landscaping plan, external finishes photographic samples, folio maps including accompanying documents and letters and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561458
11 Sept 2025Refused
for a two storey style dwelling with a detached domestic garage, a domestic wastewater disposal system, a new site entrance, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561043
2 Sept 2025N/a
for a two storey style dwelling with a detached domestic garage, a domestic wastewater disposal system, a new site entrance, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561001
30 Jan 2023Conditional
(a) Demolition of existing cubicle shed and silage pits; (b) Construction of an extension to existing milking parlour consisting of dairy, plant room, meal bin, water storage tank and underground slatted parlour washings tank; (c) Construction of an agricultural shed comprising of cubicles, feeding area, calving area, drafting and handling area with underground slatted slurry storage tank; (d) Construction of 2 No. silage pits and all associated siteworks
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2373
28 Nov 2022N/a
The development will consist of the construction of a single storey detached garage to the front of existing detached dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 221410
7 Oct 2022Conditional
The construction of a single storey detached garage and farm machinery storage building and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 221205
14 Sept 2022N/a
the construction of a single storey detached garage and farm machinery storage building and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 221125
18 Oct 2021Conditional
for a storey and a half style dwelling, detached garage, effluent treatment system, new site entrance and all associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211497
11 May 2021Conditional
alterations and extensions to the existing single storey house including the following: a new first floor with 3 bedrooms, bathrooms and balcony; additional ground floor accommodation with extended sitting room and kitchen/dining; new sun room, living room, utility room and toilet; new front porch; new septic tank and percolation area; the demolition of an existing shed, and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 21643
21 Apr 2021N/a
The development will consist of: alterations and extensions to the existing single storey house including the following: a new first floor with 3 bedrooms, bathrooms and balcony; additional ground floor accommodation with extended sitting room and kitchen/dining; new sun room, living room, utility room and toilet; new front porch; new septic tank and percolation area; and all associated site works.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 21528
20 Jan 2021Refused
a storey and a half style dwelling, detached garage, effluent treatment system, new site entrance and all associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2150
17 Oct 2019Conditional
of: (a) Minor alterations to one and a half storey type house previously granted under file ref. No. 02/1878 consisting of increased floor area of 32sqm and increase overall height of 600mm to house, giving a total height of 6.9m; (b) Retention of a garage for domestic use consisting of increase floor area of 5sqm and (c) Retention of steel storage shed for d9omestic use, having a floor area of 31sqm
Retention · Kildare County Council, 191148
22 Jan 2019Refused
the construction of a new detached storey and a half type dwelling along with a single storey detached garage for domestic use, access via a family owned shared driveway to entrance on to public road to serve the proposed dwelling, installation of a new proprietary waste water treatment system together with all associated landscaping, site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 1945
23 Jun 2017Conditional
minor alterations to previously approved permission granted under Planning Application Register Reference 16/451, comprising of: (1) Increase in ground floor area by 14.63sqm to rear, and (2) Corresponding increase in first floor area by 14.63sqm directly overhead, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17732
27 Jan 2017Conditional
relocated vehicular entrance to existing dwelling, comprising minor modifications, rooflights and an extension (ground & first floor / attic level circa 40sqm) with canopies to rear / side of dwelling, with new septic tank and percolation area, modified boundaries and all associated landscaping & site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 1780
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 Ballycanon.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballycanon.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycanon.
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballycanon.
- 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 Ballycanon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballycanon
- Area
- 2,421,219 m² (242.12 ha, 598.3 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
- Ballybrack, Ballycaghan, Belgard, Corcoranstown, Grange, Hodgestown, Kilmagorroge, Lugadoo, Portgloriam
- Placenames
- Ballycanon 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.