Ballyroe

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyroe, from 23 m² to 630,477 m² (63.05 ha, 155.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyroe 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.

• 16 Jan 2026Conditional

  the construction of: 2 no. single-storey, flat-roofed garden rooms, with a combined total floor area of 44 sqm, located to the rear of the existing dwelling; all associated site development works above and below ground

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660038

• 21 Apr 2023Conditional

  to construct a bungalow, garage, new splayed entrance and install a septic tank and percolation area, bore a new well and all ancillary siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23420

• 11 Apr 2023Conditional

  is sought for i) Repositioning of the current front door to the eastern side of the dwelling, the removal of the flat roof on the current single storey extension and addition of a new matching pitch roof and infill extension to the rear to facilitate a new utility room. The lowering of the current cottage style windows and the addition of a new opaque matching window into the bathroom area into the front elevation. Removal of the western gable wall and insertion of a new fully glazed opening into the living/kitchen area with overhang roof canopy. ii) Relocation of the existing vehicle entrance. iii) Construction of a new workshop/garage to the rear of the property

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23378

• 11 Jan 2022Conditional

  for upgrading of existing wastewater treatment system and retention permission is sought for retention of extensions to side and rear of dwelling at

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2211

• 5 May 2021Conditional

  to construct a single storey extension to the front and rear of existing dwelling, new percolation area and treatment system, connection to existing mains water and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21605

• 19 Apr 2021N/a

  Planning permission to construct a single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling, minor alterations to the front façade, new percolation area and treatment system, connection to existing mains water and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21506

• 10 May 2018Conditional

  new effluent treatment system and percolation area

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18542

• 6 Mar 2018Refused

  to demolish existing single storey dwelling and commercial unit, construct 3 No. dormer style two bed residential units, associated parking, 3 No. new entrances, boundary wall with railing to the front of each unit, connection to all existing services and all associated site works

  Permission, 3 homes · Kildare County Council, 18223

• 17 Aug 2017Conditional

  single storey extension to rear of existing semi-detached bungalow

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17930

• 5 Apr 2017Refused

  demolition of existing single storey dwelling and commercial unit and planning permission to construct 4 No. two storey two bed residential units, associated parking, refuse storage, new vehicle and pedestrian access, landscaped areas, boundary wall with railing, connection to all existing services and associated site works

  Permission, 4 homes · Kildare County Council, 17366

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 Ballyroe.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyroe.

Architectural heritage

• Forge/smithy, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey rubble stone former forge, c.1840, with two-bay single-storey side elevations having segmental-headed integral carriageway to north. Renovated and partly remodelled, c.1980, to accommodate use as outbuilding. Gable-ended roof. Replacement corrugated-iron, c.1980. Iron ridges. Cut-stone coping to gables. Iron rainwater goods on yellow brick eaves course. Rubble stone walls. Cut-stone quoins to corners. Part corrugated-iron-clad, c.1980, to rear elevation to west. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Cut-stone surrounds. Boarded-up. Cut-stone lintel to door opening. Timber panelled door. Segmental-headed integral carriageway to north. Red brick dressings. Boarded-up. Square-headed door openings inserted, c.1980, to rear elevation to west and to side elevation to south. Metal-sheeted doors. Set back from road perpendicular to road with side (north) elevation road fronted. Part overgrown grounds.

• Water pump, 1890–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron waterpump, c.1905, comprising cylindrical shaft with raised horizontal banding, fluted upper section with fluted spout, fluted ogee-domed cap and 'cow-tail' handle having ball finial. Now disused. Road fronted. Replacement concrete cobble lock surround, c.1995.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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_2454 (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.

• Ballyroe, Athy10 sales

Name

Ballyroe · Baile an Róigh

Area

1,477,515 m² (147.75 ha, 365.1 acres)

Civil parish

Tankardstown, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Grangemellon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Grangemellon electoral division: 647 people in 227 households; 77% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Grangemellon, Heath, Leinsterlodge, Rosetown, Snugburrow

Placenames

Ballyroe 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.