Ballyroe

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyroe, from 76 m² to 552,398 m² (55.24 ha, 136.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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.

• 25 Feb 2025Conditional

  for constructing a new dwelling house, new garage, new site entrance, new treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560181

• 17 Feb 2025N/a

  for constructing a new dwelling house, new garage, new site entrance, new septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560145

• 3 Dec 2021Conditional

  sought to construct a bungalow, garage, new splayed entrance, install a waste water treatment unit and polishing filter and all other ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211697

• 1 Mar 2021Conditional

  for extended living room to the front of existing house, small utility extension to the rear of the house and an additional bedroom, bathroom and study with associated window and rooflights in the dormer area of the existing house, also retention of the existing gated side entrance to property site and all ancillary works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 21234

• 18 Feb 2021N/a

  for extended living room to the front of existing house, small utility extension to the rear of the house and additional bedroom, bathroom and study with associated window and rooflights in the dormer area of the existing house, also retention of the existing gated side entrance to property site and all ancillary works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 21185

• 22 Mar 2018Conditional

  bungalow, detached double garage, effluent treatment system and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18303

• 7 Feb 2018Conditional

  dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatments system, new splayed entrance and associated site work

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 18115

• 27 Jan 2017Conditional

  The proposal consists of the development of a multi-use shared leisure route (Blueway), approximately 115 kilometres (km) in length, on the existing navigation towpath, which is a National Waymarked Way. This will include tailored surface finishes, information, directional, and safety signage, and all other associated ancillary works. The route commences in Lowtown, County Kildare, passes through County Laois and finishes in St. Mullins, County Carlow. Approximately 47km of the route is in County Kildare, 16km in County Laois and 52km in County Carlow. An Environmental Impact Statement and Natura Impact Statement have been prepared in respect of the project and are submitted with the application

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 1781

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyroe.

Architectural heritage

• Rosebank Cottage, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey thatched house, c.1820. Extended, c.1900, comprising five-bay single-storey thatched wing at right angles forming L-shaped plan. Extended, c.1970, to west comprising two-bay single-storey end bay. Renovated, c.2000, with some openings remodelled. Gable-ended roof on an L-shaped plan with thatch. Rope work to ridges. Rendered chimney stacks. Lead coping to gables. Rendered walls (possibly over rubble stone or mud walled construction). Painted. Buttress to south. Square-headed window openings (some remodelled, c.2000). Replacement timber casement windows, c.2000. Square-headed door opening. Replacement tongue-and-groove timber panelled door, c.2000. Replacement French doors, c.2000, to former window opening. Set back from road in own 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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 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_2289 (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.

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

Name

Ballyroe

Area

1,726,694 m² (172.67 ha, 426.68 acres)

Civil parish

Churchtown, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban West

Electoral division

Churchtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Churchtown electoral division: 554 people in 199 households; 90% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawn (Co. Laois), Blackford, Castlereban North, Castlereban South, Churchtown North, Crohanree, Raheenadeeragh, Sheean

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.