Ballynabarna

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynabarna, from 53 m² to 299,537 m² (29.95 ha, 74.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballynabarna 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.

• 24 Apr 2026Conditional

  construct a bungalow, install a waste water treatment unit and percolation area, upgrade existing agricultural entrance to a new recessed vehicular entrance and all ancillary siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660445

• 30 Sept 2019Conditional

  a two storey dwelling, single storey garage, bored well, waste water treatment system, new entrance off existing laneway and all associated site works. Revised by significant further information consisting of; the relocation of the proposed two storey dwelling, garage and revised entrance details

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191086

• 5 Apr 2019Conditional

  The construction of a single storey extension to existing bungalow, new windows to front façade and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 19366

• 12 Sept 2018Refused

  A two storey dwelling, single storey garage, bored well, waste water treatment system, new entrance off existing laneway and all associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181111

• 28 Aug 2017Conditional

  a dormer bungalow, septic and percolation area and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17975

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballynabarna.

Recorded monuments

• KD031-023 Mound
  Description

  In the garden of a private dwelling house. A raised circular area (diam. 20m; H 1-2m) has been landscaped with shrubs, flowers, mature ash trees and three concrete access steps have been built into the S edge of the monument. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 08 October 2013

• KD031-025 Enclosure
  Description

  Near the top of a moderately steep NE-facing pasture slope, overlooked by a ringbarrow (KD031-026----) c. 50m upslope to the SW. Shown on the 1st ed. (1839) of the OS 6-inch map as a circular area (est. max. diam. c. 25m) enclosed by a bank. When inspected in 1987, the monument had been levelled, its site visible as circular patch of green grass (diam. 13m) in a somewhat dry field (SMR file). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 08 October 2013

• KD031-026 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On a low short NNW-SSE pasture ridge with a gentle slope to SW and a moderately steep slope to NE, overlooking an enclosure site (KD031-025----) c. 50m to NE. A low heavily overgrown circular earthen mound (diam. 15m; H c. 1.5m) with a domed profile is skirted by a later field boundary bank NW-N-ENE. A shallow enclosing fosse (W c. 2m) noted in 1989 (SMR file) is obscured by cleared field material dumped around the perimeter. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 08 October 2013

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1820, with single-bay single-storey advanced porch to front and four-bay single-storey parallel range along rear elevation to west. Refenestrated, c.1980. Hipped roof with thatch (gable-ended to parallel range with slate). Rope work to ridges and to eaves. Red brick chimney stack. Roughcast walls (possibly over rubble stone construction). Painted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Rendered surrounds. Replacement timber casement windows, c.1980. Square-headed door opening. Replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1980. Set back from road in own grounds. Lawns to site. Detached two-bay two-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1820, to south with pair of segmental-headed integral carriageways to ground floor. Renovated, c.1980. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered coping to gable to north. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. No sills. Yellow brick dressings. Replacement timber fittings, c.1980. Pair of segmental-headed integral carriageways to ground floor. Yellow brick dressings. Replacement tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors, c.1980. Gateway, c.1900, to east comprising pair of rubble stone piers with wrought iron gate.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, 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_2503 (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.

No address of the register names Ballynabarna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Ballynabarna · Baile na Bearna

Area

977,252 m² (97.73 ha, 241.48 acres)

Civil parish

Narraghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban West

Electoral division

Skerries, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Skerries electoral division: 717 people in 228 households; 67% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardellis Upper, Ardnagross, Rathgrumly, Skerries North, Skerries South, Tinnakill, Youngstown

Placenames

Ballynabarna 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.