Ballybur
Ballybur is a townland in the civil parish of Tullaghanbrogue, barony of Shillelogher, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is Baile an Bhurraigh.
- Area
- 13.3 ha
- 33 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 3,749 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybur, from 1,915 m² to 82,177 m² (8.22 ha, 20.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballybur 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
26 Feb 2024Unconditional
of Planning Permission Reference P18/788 and P23/76 respectively
Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 2421
31 Mar 2023Conditional
for change of house type from that approved under existing Permission No. 18/788. The House now proposed will be single-storey and will be positioned as proposed for the previous house
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2376
12 Sept 2019Conditional
for amendments to granted planning permission 18/797 which provided for: full planning permission to construct a 2 storey dwelling, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system & percolation area, soakpits and all associated site works. The amendments to the permission shall include: 1. Adjustments to site boundaries 2. Relocation of entrance to the northwest circa 35M 3. Relocation of dwelling & garage to the northwest circa 35M 4. Relocation of wastewater treatment system & percolation area to the northwest circa 35M
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19656
15 Mar 2019Conditional
is being sought for demolition of existing garage, construction of new garage of 24 sq m and for single storey extensions to existing house for kitchen / living and bedroom and study, upgrading of wastewater treatment system, new entrance and associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19165
4 Dec 2018Conditional
to construct a 2 storey dwelling, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system & percolation area, soakpits and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18797
29 Nov 2018Conditional
to construct a free-standing dormer type dwelling and detached garage. External works will include a sewage treatment system, a new splayed entrance from the public road and realigned front boundary
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18788
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballybur.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballybur.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybur.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballybur, about 1 in 5 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballybur.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Ballybur, Cuffesgrange7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballybur · Baile an Bhurraigh
- Area
- 132,954 m² (13.3 ha, 32.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullaghanbrogue, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelogher
- Electoral division
- Tullaghanbrogue, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 546 people lived in 178 households in the Tullaghanbrogue electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybur Lower, Church Hill, Grove
- Placenames
- Ballybur 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.