Ballynakill Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Kilpatrick, barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 134 ha
- 331 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 3,747 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynakill Lower, from 1,118 m² to 593,847 m² (59.38 ha, 146.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Ballynakill 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
16 Jan 2026Conditional
permission for (1) a single storey extension to the front, (2) a single storey extension to the side and rear of the existing detached dwelling and consists of retention permission for (3) the attic converted for habitable use and roof windows, (4) a porch to the front, (5) entrance gates, piers and wing walls, (6) the garage as constructed converted to a garden room at ground floor level and a home gym at first floor level and (7) a container for domestic storage and all associated ancillary site development works above and below ground. Revised by Significant Further which Information consists of: elevational changes from that which was previously granted
Retention, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 2660045
19 Sept 2023Conditional
(A) for garage for domestic use and (B) Retention Permission for Fuel Storage Shed for domestic use
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2360223
14 Dec 2018Refused
(A) Erection of single storey type house, (B) garage / fuel store for domestic use, (C) the installation of an Oakstown BAF waste water treatment plant with polishing filter percolation area and (D) construction of vehicular recessed entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 181500
5 Dec 2018N/a
(a) Erection of single storey type house; (b) Garage/fuel store for domestic use; (c) The installation of an Oakstown BAF wastewater treatment plant with polishing filter percolation area, and (d) Construction of vehicular recessed entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181465
29 Aug 2017Conditional
the insertion of 2 no. dormer windows and 3 no. velux rooflights to the front (south) elevation and the lowering of 1 no. existing velux rooflight to the rear (north) elevation of existing dormer type house
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17981
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 Ballynakill Lower.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynakill Lower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynakill 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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballynakill Lower.
- 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 Ballynakill Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynakill Lower
- Area
- 1,340,469 m² (134.05 ha, 331.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilpatrick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Kilpatrick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilpatrick electoral division: 918 people in 306 households; 92% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybrack, Ballynakill Upper, Coolcarrigan, Drummond, Kilpatrick
- Placenames
- Ballynakill 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.