Ballyraggan

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyraggan, from 474 m² to 579,740 m² (57.97 ha, 143.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyraggan 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.

• 11 Jun 2026Conditional

  RED III - the installation of an Air Source Heat Pump on existing hardscaping with a 2.8m high perimeter screen enclosure. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660624

• 25 May 2026N/a

  Installation of an Air Source Heat Pump on existing soft landscaping with a 2.8m high perimeter screen enclosure

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660546

• 5 Mar 2025Conditional

  for a single storey dwelling house, garage, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area, all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560218

• 11 Dec 2024Refused

  for 1) Bungalow with an elevated roof to allow for ease of future conversion. 2) A secondary sewage treatment system with pumped discharge to a soil filtration bed as per regulations 3) A domestic vehicular entrance to the requirements of the roads section of Kildare County Council. 4) A bored well. 5) All ancillary site works in association with the above

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461329

• 10 Dec 2024N/a

  for to construct: 1) Bungalow with an elevated roof to allow for ease of future conversion. 2) A secondary sewage treatment system with pumped discharge to a soil filtration bed as per regulations 3) A domestic vehicular entrance to the requirements of the roads section of Kildare County Council. 4) A bored well. 5) All ancillary site works in association with the above.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461321

• 17 Jun 2024Conditional

  for the provision of a single storey extension to the rear of existing single storey School Building (existing floor area = 300 sqm) consisting of an Assisted Shower Room, SET Room and Office (proposed floor area of extension = 40sqm), together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460541

• 3 Dec 2021Conditional

  the construction of a single storey dwelling house, garage, wastewater secondary treatment system and soil polishing filter, new entrance, landscaping and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211696

• 13 Oct 2021Conditional

  to construct a dormer style extension to the side of existing dormer style dwelling, new waste water treatment system and percolation area, use of existing well, use of existing entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 211479

• 8 Oct 2021Conditional

  of: (1) A single storey extension to the left side of existing dwelling; (2) A single storey sunroom to right side of existing dwelling; (3) A detached single storey, five bay dog kennel with storage area, to the rear of existing dwelling

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 211450

• 27 Nov 2020Conditional

  works carried out to dwelling house consisting of raising walls, adding external stone cladding, replacing roof and altering fenestration, installing new windows and external doors and extending a room to the west side also planning permission to demolish outbuildings to the rear and decommission existing septic tank and percolation area and construct a single storey extension to the rear and side of existing house and installing a proprietary wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter and all associated and necessary site works,

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 201435

• 26 Nov 2020Conditional

  (1) Construct a one and a half storey extension with a single storey link to the rear of my existing single storey house. (2) Reduce the ground level in the vicinity of the proposed extension by approximately 1.00 metre to facilitate the ridge line of the proposed extension being at the same level as that of my existing house. (3) Carry out all ancillary ground works associated with the proposed extension. (4) The floor area of my existing house is 70.11 sq.m, the proposed extension will add a further 80.53 sqm to the ground floor and 47.55 sq.m at first floor in the proposed works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of the revision of the red line site boundaries to include the area in which it is now proposed to remove and decommission the existing septic tank system and replace with a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201427

• 4 Sept 2020N/a

  to demolish outbuilding to the rear and decommission existing septic tank and percolation area and construct a single storey extension to the rear and side of existing house and install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter and all associated and necessary site works,

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201018

• 13 Jul 2020Refused

  the construction of a single storey dwelling house, garage, package water treatment system with polishing filter, new entrance, landscaping and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20741

• 27 Feb 2020Refused

  for a dwelling, effluent treatment system, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20188

• 12 Feb 2020N/a

  a dwelling, effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20121

• 11 Dec 2017Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling and garage with a proprietary septic tank with percolation area, landscaping and associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 171397

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 Ballyraggan.

Recorded monuments

• CW003-030 Moated site
  Description

  Approximately square area (Wth. c. 40m E-W) with a low bank at S, W and N and slight traces of a fosse. Entrance not identifiable. Situated on slight rise in pasture land. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 August 2011

• KD040-028 Moated site
  Description

  Approximately square area (Wth. c. 40m E-W) with a low bank at S, W and N and slight traces of a fosse. Entrance not identifiable. Situated on slight rise in pasture land. As the S limits of the monument appear to be incorporated into the border with Co. Carlow, the monument has also been designated CW003-030----. Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-037 House - 17th century
  Description

  Shown on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as 'Ballyraggan Ho. (in ruins)', and described by Garner and Craig as probably the remains of a seventeenth century house with a barn (FF 1976, 82). There are extensive foundations and some wall fragments still visible, including dressed limestone and red brick. Date of upload: 8 September 2016

• KD040-040 Standing stone
  Description

  An irregular block of granite (est. H. c. 1.5m) standing in level pasture land. According to local information, it is known as 'The Rambling Stone'. The stone was removed some years ago. Date of upload: 8 September 2016

Architectural heritage

• Bigstone National School, school, 1895–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay double-height national school, dated 1896. Extended, c.1960, comprising single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting block to rear to west. Refenestrated, c.1990. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Roughcast chimney stacks. Timber eaves. Replacement aluminium rainwater goods, c.1960. Flat-roof to projecting block. Bitumen felt. Timber eaves. Roughcast walls. Painted. Cut-stone date stone/plaque. Square-headed openings. Stone sills (concrete to projecting block). Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1990. Red brick piers to door opening with concrete canopy over. Replacement tongue-and-groove timber panelled door, c.1990. Set back from road in own grounds. Tarmacadam yard to site. Rubble stone boundary wall to front.Detached two-bay single-storey flat-roofed shelter, c.1960, to south with open front. Flat-roof with bitumen felt. Rendered walls. Painted. Square-headed openings with cast-concrete pier.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballyraggan, 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyraggan.

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.

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

Name

Ballyraggan

Area

2,963,190 m² (296.32 ha, 732.22 acres)

Civil parish

Graney, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Graney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

803 people lived in 274 households in the Graney electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Broadstown, Graney East, Knockfield, Knockshannagh, Oldtown (Co. Carlow), Phillipstown (Co. Carlow), Ricketstown (Co. Carlow), Ricketstown North (Co. Carlow)

Placenames

Ballyraggan 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.