Ballybray
Townland in the civil parish of Kilkeasy, barony of Knocktopher, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish Bealach Bréagán
- Area
- 169.7 ha
- 419 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 13,580 m² (1.36 ha, 3.36 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybray, from 96 m² to 190,990 m² (19.1 ha, 47.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballybray 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Apr 2025Conditional
for (a) Relocation of existing site entrance to proposed new location, (b) New boundary treatments, (c) installation of a new foul treatment system / percolation area to serve existing dwelling on site. Including all associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2526
22 Dec 2020Conditional
to demolish existing loose shed and for developement of new loose shed, concrete apron and associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20911
27 Nov 2019Conditional
for Demolition of the existing dwelling house and outhouse with construction of a new two storey replacement dwelling house, provision of an improved vehicular entrance, installation of a new wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, soakpit and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19884
30 Oct 2019N/a
for demolition of the existing dwelling house and outhouse with construction of a new two storey replacement dwelling house, provision of an improved vehicular entrance, installation of a new waste-water treatment plant, percolation area, soak pit and all associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19814
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballybray.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybray.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Ballybray, Knocktopher5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballybray · Bealach Bréagán
- Area
- 1,696,864 m² (169.69 ha, 419.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilkeasy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Knocktopher
- Electoral division
- Ballyhale, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhale, Coolmeen, Coolmore, Kilcurl (feronsby), Kilkeasy
- Placenames
- Ballybray on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.