Ballyonan
Ballyonan is a townland in the civil parish of Ballynadrumny, barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare. Its name in Irish is Baile Eoghanáin.
- Area
- 243.9 ha
- 603 acres
- Land parcels
- 61
- registered freehold, median 7,343 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyonan, from 59 m² to 615,841 m² (61.58 ha, 152.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
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 Mar 2026Refused
• Demolition of the vacant Mother Hubbard restaurant building, fencing, unused overground tanks along with associated fencing/gates and concrete pads. • Construction of new single storey warehouse building with ancillary workshop, signage and underground firefighting water storage tank. • Relocation of containers, • Erection of new fencing and gates, • Provision of new car parking including disabled and EV charging spaces • New on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area, • Landscaping • Associated site works. The development for which retention planning permission is sought consists of an existing fence
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660297
8 Mar 2024Conditional
Retention of a steel container for use as a temporary shelter, a drying room and personal storage room for the on-site staff. The modified container to include 2 windows and 1 door is 20ft x 10ft (6.10 x 3.05M) in size. There are no foundations, no permanent power supply and the container sits on the original ground beside a weighbridge. There are no water or sewerage connections to the container.
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2489
21 Dec 2023N/a
a steel container for use as a temporary shelter, a drying room and personal storage room for the on-site staff. The modified steel transport container to include 2 windows and 1 door is 20ft x 10ft (6.10x 3.05m) in size. There are no foundations, no permanent power supply and the container sits on the original ground beside a weighbridge. There are no water or sewerage connections to the container
Permission · Kildare County Council, 231054
6 Dec 2023N/a
Steel container for use as a temporary shelter, a drying room and personal storage room for the on-site staff. The modified steel transport container to include 2 windows and 1 door is 20ft x 10ft (6.10 x 3.05M) in size. There are no foundations, no permanent power supply and the container sits on the original ground beside a weighbridge. There are no water or sewerage connections to the container.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 231014
27 Nov 2023N/a
Steel container for use as a temporary shelter, a drying room and personal storage room for the on-site staff. The modified container to include 2 windows and 1 door is 20ft x 10ft (6.10 x 3.05M) in size. There are no foundations, no permanent power supply and the container sits on the original ground beside a weighbridge. There are no water or sewerage connections to the container.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 231000
4 Apr 2023Conditional
(1) Provision of new trailer storage yard (0.9169 Ha) to the east of the site replacing greenfield lands to accommodate 33 No. trailers parking spaces. This will be an extension of the existing trailer park and the combined number of trailers on the overall site will be 83. (2) Change of use of restaurant building (842 sqm) into storage use along with a new internal configuration arising from internal demolitions and undertaking minor elevation changes. (3) Installation of 22 No. storage containers (2.6m high). (4) Provision of wastewater treatment system and associated percolation area. (5) Provision of new fencing. (6) All associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23352
23 Mar 2023N/a
(1) Provision of new trailer storage yard (0.9169 Ha) to the east of the site replacing greenfield lands to accommodate 33 No. trailers parking spaces. This will be an extension of the existing trailer park and the combined number of trailers on the overall site will be 83. (2) Change of use of restaurant building (842 sqm) into storage use along with a new internal configuration arising from internal demolitions and undertaking minor elevation changes. (3) Installation of 22 No. storage containers (2.6m high). (4) Provision of wastewater treatment system and associated percolation area. (5) Provision of new fencing. (6) All associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23294
1 Dec 2021Conditional
demolition of façade and roof of central portion of existing restaurant area (conservatory structure). Provision of replacement elevation consisting of new masonry and glazed façade to match existing main building and new replacement roof consisting of pitched roof over with tiling to match existing main building. New 29sq.m external canopy in front of new façade, to form external seating area. Minor internal modifications, including removal of an internal wall in the restaurant area to create full open plan. Provision of new trailer storage yard (0.7215Ha) east of the existing car park replacing greenfield lands to accommodate 50 no. trailers including new fencing with entrance gates. New fencing around the existing foul drainage infrastructure to the east of the site. All associated site development works, including 2 no. car park spaces, 17 no. HGV parking spaces (involving removal of 8 car park spaces), 12 no. cycle spaces and new percolation system. Retention permission is sought for a single storey, storage area (62m2)
Permission · Kildare County Council, 211691
25 Jun 2021N/a
of a 2.25 hectare development area and consists of a) three settlement ponds; b) three soil stockpiles and all ancillary site works for a period of 2 years. Reinstatement is proposed as part of the planning application
Retention · Kildare County Council, 21931
15 Jun 2021N/a
The development will consist of a 2.25 hectare development area and consists of a)settlement pond), b) soil stockpile and all ancillary site works for a period of 2 years
Retention · Kildare County Council, 21863
6 May 2020Conditional
of an existing development consisting of an existing 15 metre high telecommunications support structure carrying telecommunications equipment, together with existing equipment container and associated equipment within a fenced compound as previously granted under local authority reference 12/42. The development will continue to form part of Meteor Mobile Communications Ltd., existing and future telecommunications and broadband network
Retention · Kildare County Council, 20460
15 Oct 2019Refused
a development area of approximately 1.05ha, the use of a weighbridge, wheelwash, the erection of a staff office and administration building, car park area, access road and improved site entrance, concrete and readymix batching plant, block yard and associated infrastructure. The proposed site access will be from the L-1011 local road, to the north of an existing sand and gravel pit, QR45. An EIAR and Appropriate Assessment accompanies this application. Revised by significant further information consisting of; amendments/clarification to the Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR). Development on site
Permission · Kildare County Council, 191138
14 Oct 2019Conditional
(a) Erection of a two-storey type house: (b) Garage/fuel store for domestic use; (c) The installation of a septic tank and percolation area; (d) Closing up of existing entrance to applicant's parents' house and erection of new combined entrance to serve the proposed house and the existing house and all associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191132
2 Oct 2019N/a
for a development area of approximately 1.05ha, the use of a weighbridge, wheelwash, the erection of a staff office and administration building, car park area, access road and improved site entrance, concrete and readymix batching plant, block yard and associated infrastructure. The proposed site access will be from the L-1011 local road, to the north of a sand and gravel pit, QR45. An EIAR and Appropriate Assessment accompanies this application. Development on site
Permission · Kildare County Council, 191091
24 Sept 2019Conditional
the construction of a 30m high telecommunications support structure carrying antennas and dishes, with associated ground level equipment cabin and security fencing, use of existing access and access track
Permission · Kildare County Council, 191059
31 Jul 2019N/a
a development area of approximately 1.05ha, the use of a weighbridge, wheelwash, the erection of a staff office and administration building, car park area, access road and improved site entrance, concrete and readymix batching plant, block yard and associated infrastructure. Existing access will be from the L-1011 local road. An EIAR and Appropriate Assessment accompanies this application.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19865
17 Oct 2018N/a
of an existing 15 metre high telecommunications support structure carrying telecommunications equipment, together with existing equipment container within a fenced compound as previously granted under local authority reference 12/42. The development will continue to form part of Meteor Mobile Communications Limited existing and future telecommunications and broadband network
Retention · Kildare County Council, 181261
30 Jul 2018N/a
The development consists of an existing 15 metre high telecommunications support structure carrying telecommunications equipment, together with existing equipment container and associated equipment within a fenced compound as previously granted under local authority reference 12/42. The development will continue to form part of Meteor Mobile Communications Ltd. Existing and future telecommunications and broadband network.
Retention · Kildare County Council, 18916
13 Sept 2017Conditional
replacement dwelling on the footprint of an existing 3 bedroom bungalow. The new house consists of a 3 bedroom dormer style dwelling house, connection to existing septic tank and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171032
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 Ballyonan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyonan.
Architectural heritage
- Ballyonan Mill, mill (water), 1800–1837 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay four-storey mill, extant 1837, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Hipped gabled slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods surviving on cut-limestone eaves. Lime rendered or roughcast coursed rubble stone battered walls with concealed flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings including cut-limestone voussoirs framing remains of timber fittings. Set in unkempt grounds.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyonan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2343 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballyonan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyonan · Baile Eoghanáin
- Area
- 2,439,078 m² (243.91 ha, 602.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballynadrumny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Ballynadrumny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 580 people lived in 213 households in the Ballynadrumny electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Anneville or Clonard Old (Co. Meath), Ballinlig, Ballynadrumny, Ballynakill, Clonard New, Garrisker, Mulphedder (Co. Meath), Royaloak
- Placenames
- Ballyonan 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.