Ballysaxplain

80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballysaxplain, from 51 m² to 203,306 m² (20.33 ha, 50.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Ballysaxplain 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.

• 2 Mar 2026Refused

  the construction of a new one and a half storey dwelling house, appropriate waste water treatment system, new entrance off Ballysaxplain, and associated site works and landscaping

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660219

• 24 Feb 2026N/a

  the construction of a new one and a half storey dwelling house, appropriate waste water treatment system, new entrance off Ballysaxplain, and associated site works and landscaping

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660186

• 6 Feb 2026Conditional

  alterations, refurbishment and dormer extension /conversion of an existing single storey 5-bedroom detached dwelling to forma dormer7-bedroom dwelling

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2617

• 24 Sept 2025Refused

  for construction of a single-storey dwelling, new vehicular entrance, driveway, boundary treatments, installation of a secondary wastewater treatment system with percolation area, and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561087

• 13 Aug 2025Refused

  for single storey house, Domestic Garage to include Domestic fuel storage, Recessed Entrance, Oakstown effluent treatment percolation area and all ancillary works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560925

• 13 Mar 2025Refused

  for constructing a part 2 storey part single storey dwelling, installation of a waste water treatment system, vehicular entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560267

• 11 Mar 2025N/a

  for constructing a part 2 storey part single storey dwelling, installation of a waste water treatment system, vehicular entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560241

• 13 May 2024Conditional

  1. Retention permission for construction of single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling. 2. Alterations to existing ground floor layout and elevations. 3. All associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: Revised floor area for retention, revised site layout plan and access arrangement, replacement of existing septic tank with new wastewater treatment system

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460420

• 3 Oct 2023Conditional

  for alterations, refurbishment, and dormer extension/conversion of an existing single-storey five-bedroom detached dwelling to form a dormer five-bedroom dwelling with ancillary two-bedroom family flat, new effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360269

• 6 Mar 2023Refused

  a) Amendment of Condition No. 2(b) of Planning File Ref. 88/505 to remove sterilisation of a portion of the land to allow for the erection of the proposed house, b) proposed new single storey dwelling, c) new vehicle entrance, d) domestic garage, e) treatment system & percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23217

• 4 May 2022Refused

  sought for the construction of a two storey detached house, single storey domestic garage, recessed entrance, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22518

• 17 Sept 2021Refused

  the construction of a two storey detached house, single storey domestic garage, recessed entrance, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211330

• 22 Apr 2020Refused

  the construction of a bungalow, single storey domestic garage, entrance, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20410

• 15 Nov 2019Refused

  the construction of a bungalow, domestic garage, stable block, entrance, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191280

• 11 Dec 2018Refused

  construction of a single storey dwelling, garage, vehicular entrance, water well, effluent treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181486

• 5 Sept 2018Refused

  construction of a two storey dwelling, garage, vehicular entrance, water well, effluent treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181092

• 21 Aug 2018Conditional

  a one and a half storey dwelling and a domestic garage, tertiary effluent treatment system incorporating a sand polishing filter. New recessed entrance to replace existing farm entrance. Removal of 2 No. farm outbuildings/sheds and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181018

• 31 Jul 2017Conditional

  for construction of a) proposed new single storey dwelling, b) new vehicle entrance, c) domestic double garage, d) treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17867

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 Ballysaxplain.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballysaxplain.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballysaxplain.

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 Ballysaxplain, 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_2603 (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.

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

Name

Ballysaxplain

Area

1,337,467 m² (133.75 ha, 330.5 acres)

Civil parish

Ballysax, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly East

Electoral division

Ballysax East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,090 people lived in 706 households in the Ballysax East electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballysax Great, Ballysax Little, Ballysaxhills, Martinstown, Moortown, Moortowncastle, Thomastown

Placenames

Ballysaxplain 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.