# Ballyloughan, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonshanbo, barony of Ikeathy and Oughterany, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 481,518 m² (48.15 ha, 118.99 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 75,417 m² (7.54 ha, 18.64 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonshanbo, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/clonshanbo.md - Barony: Ikeathy and Oughterany - Electoral division: Balraheen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Balraheen electoral division: 2,559 people in 663 households; 87% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25271 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80075 - Centre: latitude 53.367852, longitude -6.703114 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyloughan, from 2,012 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 404,089 m² (40.41 ha, 99.85 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1018765: 404,089 m² (40.41 ha, 99.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018765.md - Parcel 1075908: 75,417 m² (7.54 ha, 18.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1075908.md - Parcel 1089711: 2,012 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089711.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyloughan in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 1 Mar 2023, Kildare County Council 23183: Conditional. Permission. to renovate, alter and extend existing dwelling and construct a new domestic garage and new wastewater treatment system. Permission is also sought to demolish porch. Alterations include replacing windows and roof of existing dwelling and internal layout changes and all associated site works . Revised by significant further information which consists of revised wastewater treatment system including new on-site treatment system and polishing filter and removal of one vehicular entrance and realignment of roadside boundary walls.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23183/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyloughan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD010-001001: Linear earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD010-001001-. The area which would later be called 'The English Pale', from the Latin 'palus', a stake, and also possibly from the name of an earthen fortification at Calais in France (Lydon 1972, 261), originated in the 14th century when Norman settlers began fortifying their lands in counties Dublin, Kildare, Louth and Meath against attack by the native Irish. By 1435, ongoing attacks, probably primarily aimed at cattle theft (O'Riordáin 1971, 15), prompted the concept of an additional, linear defensive feature, the boundaries of which were defined in a 1488 Act of Parliament as extending, 'from Merrion inclusive to the waters of the Dodder, by the new ditch to Saggard, Rathcoole, Kilheel (Kilteel), Rathmore and Ballymore (Eustace), thence to the county of Kildare into Ballycutlan (Coghlanstown), Harristown and Naas, and so thence to Clane, Kilboyne, and Kilcock' (Mc Neill 1950, 250). In 1494, Parliament directed that, 'every inhabitant, earth tiller and occupier in said marches (borderlands), do build and make a double ditch six feet high above ground at one side or part which meareth next unto Irishmen between this and next Lammas (August 1st.), the said ditches to be kept up and repaired as long as they shall occupy said land.' However, Ellis (Ellis S. G. 'The emergence of the English Pale in Ireland' in Irish Historical Studies) points to a statute in Poyning's parliament in 1495 for 'ditches to be made aboute the Inglishe pale' as the first application of the term to Ireland. The Pale contracted eastwards in subsequent years and it is not certain if its original extent was ever completely ditched. By the seventeenth century, The Pale had ceased to have any real political or defensive significance. Only a few short sections have been positively identified in Co Kildare; in Kilteel Upper/Cupidstown near Rathmore (KD020-008-----), in Bishopsland just SW of Ballymore Eustace (KD029-039----), at Castlebrown or Clongowes (KD010-021----/KD014-008----) and finally, the best preserved, semi-continuous portion which runs for c. 3365m through the townlands of Ballybrack, Ballyloughan, Clonduff, Clonfert South and Graiguepottle, c. 5km N of Clongowes (KD010-001----). There it is traceable from its E end in Clonfert South as a narrow (Wth 3.5m) metalled laneway between two probably recut fosses, running W (L c. 420m), and then veering NW (L c. 365m). [Archaeological test-trenching at one location along this section revealed possible medieval habitation evidence: KD010-001008-.] It then changes direction slightly to head NNW (L c. 660m) as a disused laneway (Wth 4.8m), slightly raised above surrounding field level, and running between two wide, deep fosses (Wth 3.8m; D 2.9m), forming the townland boundary between Clonfert South and Graiguepottle. It then turns sharply to head W (L c. 1085m) mainly as a functioning laneway (Wth 3.5m) between two deep fosses through Clonduff to a point where it appears to divide: one short section (L c. 155m) apparently continues W into Ballyloughan as a metalled laneway (Wth 3.5m) flanked by drains on either side, while the main section turns sharply S (L c. 680m) and continues as a fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 1m), the corresponding bank of which (noted in 1976, SMR file) has been levelled. Along this latter section it forms the townland boundary between Ballyloughan and Graiguepottle. Visible on several aerial photographs (CUCAP AVM 27-8, AHK 4, BDU 41). The monument is included on the Register of Historic Monuments. (Bradley 2011, 51-67) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 13 December 2011 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyloughan. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2715, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2715.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ballyloughan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ballyloughan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ballyloughan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyloughan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballybrack: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ballybrack-80051.md - Baltracey: https://everytownland.com/kildare/baltracey-80128.md - Belgard: https://everytownland.com/kildare/belgard.md - Clonduff: https://everytownland.com/kildare/clonduff.md - Farranadum: https://everytownland.com/kildare/farranadum.md - Graiguepottle: https://everytownland.com/kildare/graiguepottle.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ballyloughan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/ballyloughan