Ballynakill Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Kilpatrick, barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 220.8 ha
- 546 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 2,775 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynakill Upper, from 351 m² to 914,932 m² (91.49 ha, 226.08 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 Upper 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
20 Dec 2024Conditional
for 1) Refurbishment and extend existing single storey vernacular cottage with two storey extension to front sides and rear. 2) Install wastewater treatment system and percolation area to service proposed development. 3) Replace two no.existing farm gates with combined agriculture entrance to service farm lands and domestic recessed entrance to service proposed works to existing cottage and all ancillary works and services
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2461389
19 Dec 2024N/a
for 1) Refurbishment and extend existing single storey vernacular cottage With two storey extension to front sides and rear. 2) Install wastewater treatment system and percolation area to service proposed development. 3) Replace two no. existing farm gates with combined agriculture entrance to service farm lands and domestic recessed entrance to service proposed works to existing cottage and all ancillary works and services
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2461377
18 Dec 2024N/a
for 1) Refurbishment and extend existing single storey vernacular cottage With two storey extension to front sides and rear. 2) Install wastewater treatment system and percolation area to service proposed development. 3) Replace two no.existing farm gates with combined agriculture entrance to service farm lands and domestic recessed entrance to service proposed works to existing cottage and all ancillary works and services
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2461368
17 Dec 2024N/a
for 1) Refurbishment and extend existing single storey vernacular cottage with two storey extension to front sides and rear. 2) Install wastewater treatment system and percolation area to service proposed development. 3) Replace two no. existing farm gates with combined agriculture entrance to service farm lands and domestic recessed entrance to service proposed works to existing cottage and all ancillary works and services
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2461352
9 Jun 2021Conditional
the construction of a single storey detached house, detached domestic garage, secondary effluent treatment system, utilisation of existing (family) entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21834
4 Jan 2021Conditional
demolition of a portion of existing single storey house to aid the construction of a two storey side extension, amendment of existing front façade to suit proposed development, single storey extension and internal works to existing house to provide a 4 bedroom house (Bernard O'Reilly Jnr.) and a family unit (Bernard O'Reilly Snr.), upgrade existing septic tank to secondary effluent treatments system and all associated site works,
Permission · Kildare County Council, 214
16 Dec 2020N/a
demolition of a portion of existing single storey house to aid the construction of a two storey side extension, single storey extension and internal works to existing house to provide a 4 bedroom house (Bernard O'Reilly Jnr) and a family unit (Bernard O'Reilly Snr), upgrade existing septic tank to secondary effluent treatments system and all associated site works,
Permission · Kildare County Council, 201543
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
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 Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynakill Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynakill Upper.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2496 (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 Ballynakill Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynakill Upper
- Area
- 2,208,421 m² (220.84 ha, 545.71 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 Lower, Coolcarrigan, Killinagh Lower
- Placenames
- Ballynakill Upper 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.