Ballynacarrick Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Killelan, barony of Kilkea and Moone, Co. Kildare; in Irish Baile na Carraige Íochtarach
- Area
- 188.2 ha
- 465 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 67,141 m² (6.71 ha, 16.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynacarrick Lower, from 1,603 m² to 713,252 m² (71.33 ha, 176.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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 Ballynacarrick Lower 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
6 Nov 2017Conditional
change of use of existing outbuilding to 2 no. 2 storey self-catering holiday apartments, Aswaflow SBR wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all ancillary site development work
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171246
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Corballis Hill 001389
Recorded monuments
- KD038-041 Ecclesiastical enclosure
Description
Large circular area (diam. c. 75m) surrounded by a low bank and shallow fosse. Possible remains of a small stone building at the centre. Situated on slightly marshy pasture land. Possibly an early church site. Date of upload: 15 September 2016
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynacarrick Lower.
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 high, moderately high, 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_2628 (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 Ballynacarrick Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynacarrick Lower · Baile na Carraige Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,881,636 m² (188.16 ha, 464.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killelan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilkea and Moone
- Electoral division
- Carrigeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrigeen electoral division: 644 people in 235 households; 89% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aylmerstown, Ballynacarrick Upper, Davidstown Demesne, Glowens, Hughstown, Marshalstown, Moatavanny
- Placenames
- Ballynacarrick Lower 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.