Ballygibbon West
Townland in the civil parish of Carrick, barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 306.5 ha
- 757 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 4,616 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygibbon West, from 602 m² to 532,097 m² (53.21 ha, 131.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Ballygibbon West 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
25 Apr 2024Conditional
for (A) a proposed single storey extension to front (east) elevation of existing studio providing music room for domestic use, (B) for single storey office to side (north) of existing studio for use as an office to service the existing agricultural business and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460363
26 Oct 2023Conditional
of existing two storey music studio, located to the rear of the existing house, consisting of music/hobby room at ground floor level and storage at first floor level
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2360332
29 Sept 2023N/a
retention permission for existing two storey music studio, located to the rear of the existing house, consisting of music/hobby room at ground floor level and storage at first floor level
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2360259
11 Nov 2022Conditional
(a) retention permission for a ground floor extension to the rear (west) elevation of the existing house, including minor internal amendments, (b) retention permission for an attic conversion for habitable use, over an existing ground floor extension previously granted under file ref. 00/144, (c) retention permission of the addition of a window in the side (south) elevation of the existing house at ground floor level, (d) retention permission for existing two storey studio, located to the rear of the existing house, consisting of music/hobby room and utility/kitchenette at ground floor level and storage at first floor level. All for domestic use, (e) planning permission for a proposed single storey extension to front (east) elevation of existing studio noted above in (d), providing music/hobby room for domestic use, (f) planning permission for two storey extension to side (north) elevation of existing studio noted above in (d), providing a study at ground floor level, and storage at first floor level, (g) retention permission of existing steel-clad shed, located to the rear of the existing house, for agricultural machinery repair use, (h) planning permission for an extension to existing shed noted above in (g), for agricultural machinery repair use, (i) decommission of existing septic tank, (j) installation of a proprietary waste water treatment system and raised percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 221347
16 Apr 2019Conditional
the construction of a slatted shed to house cattle, and ancillary works (i.e. concrete yards, manure pit area, cattle handling facilities and crush all for agricultural purposes only) in existing farmyard, utilizing existing farm entrance
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19416
25 Mar 2019N/a
The construction of a slatted shed to house cattle, and ancillary works (i.e. concrete yards, manure pit area, cattle handling facilities and crush all for agricultural purposes only) in existing farmyard, utilizing existing farm entrance.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19313
8 Mar 2019Conditional
the construction of an American barn and the construction of two extensions: (a) Living room to the west of the existing dwelling, and (b) Covered walkway between the existing dwelling and the existing garage to the east of the existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19225
15 Feb 2019N/a
the construction of an American barn (448sqm) and the construction of two extensions: (a) a living room (24.3sqm) to the west of the existing dwelling and (b) a covered walkway (21.4sqm) between the existing dwelling and the existing garage to the east of the existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19142
14 Nov 2017Conditional
of a 45.2sqm single storey extension to the western elevation containing a kitchen area, one bedroom and one bathroom. Retention is also sought for the connection to the existing services on site and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171273
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 Ballygibbon West.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballygibbon West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygibbon West.
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 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_2280 (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 Ballygibbon West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballygibbon West
- Area
- 3,065,054 m² (306.51 ha, 757.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carrick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Carbury, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carbury electoral division: 2,345 people in 780 households; 77% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygibbon East, Carrick, Edenderry (Co. Offaly), Kinnafad (Co. Offaly), Kinnafad, Monasteroris (Co. Offaly)
- Placenames
- Ballygibbon West 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.