Ballygreany
Ballygreany is a townland in the civil parish of Duneany, barony of Offaly West, Co. Kildare.
- Area
- 171.6 ha
- 424 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 18,953 m² (1.9 ha, 4.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygreany, from 11 m² to 222,718 m² (22.27 ha, 55.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Ballygreany 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
4 Apr 2024Conditional
for the demolition of existing single storey rear extension to allow for the construction of a single-storey rear extension with mezzanine area to existing detached bungalow, minor internal amendments to accommodate the proposed extension and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460284
2 Jun 2023Conditional
to sub-divide property and Retention planning permission for the inner gate which facilitates the sub division of the property and Retention permission for the extended haybarn and for the single storey service building consisting of a reception & hospitality area and WC and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23605
25 May 2023N/a
to sub-divide property and Retention Planning Permission for the inner gate which facilitates the sub division of the property and Retention Planning Permission for the extended hay barn and for the single storey extension to the two storey extension to the two storey service building consisting of a reception & hospitality area and WC and all associated and necessary site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23564
1 Oct 2021Conditional
(a) retention permission for (i) first floor extension to front elevation, (ii) new window to kitchen located along side elevation facing south west, (iii) carport/porch to front elevation (iv) rooflight in ensuite bathroom to side elevation facing north east, (v) lean-to shed type structure o side of dwelling house and (b) full planning permission for the modification to existing first floor rooflights in the bedroom spaces facing south west to comply with means of escape and all associated site development works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 211411
13 Apr 2021Conditional
the construction of an equine therapy pool, all weather gallops and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 21487
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 Ballygreany.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballygreany.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygreany.
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 Ballygreany, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballygreany.
- 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 Ballygreany with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballygreany
- Area
- 1,715,995 m² (171.6 ha, 424.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Duneany, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly West
- Electoral division
- Kildangan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 736 people lived in 239 households in the Kildangan electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Ballygreany 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.