Ballyda

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyda, from 545 m² to 224,844 m² (22.48 ha, 55.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballyda 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.

• 12 Nov 2025Conditional

  for a new two storey four bedroom dwelling, new waste water treatment system, new site entrance plus all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560720

• 22 Nov 2024Conditional

  for 1. Demolition of existing single storey semi -detached rear extension. 2. Construction of new part 2 storey and single-storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling. 3. Reorganisation of existing internal layout of existing dwelling and adjoining family flat 4. Replacement effluent treatment system and percolation area 5. All associated elevational modifications 6. All associated site developments works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460573

• 15 Nov 2024N/a

  for development 1. Demolition of existing single storey semi -detached rear extension 2. Construction of new part 2 storey and single-storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, 3. Reorganisation of existing internal layout of existing dwelling and adjoining family flat. 4. Replacement effluent treatment system and percolation area. 5. All associated elevational modifications, 6. All associated site developments works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460547

• 31 Jan 2024Conditional

  to construct a home office / Gym extension to the side of the existing shed / carport which is attached to the side of the house and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460041

• 4 Nov 2020Conditional

  for demolition of an existing front porch, construction of a gable extension over two floors, construction of a rear stair extension, and all associated elevation alterations to the two-storey dwelling house, - Retention permission for raising the height of existing site entrance walls (location unaltered), - Retention permissions for replacement of a septic tank with a new treatment system and percolation area, - Retention permission for a new rear vehicular entrance and parking area, - Permission for a new side extension to the dwelling house over two floors to include demolition and reconstruction of an existing plant building and demolition of the rear stair extension, - All associated site and development works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 20749

• 20 Jan 2020Conditional

  for development to a) construct a two-storey extension to the rear of existing house and b) make other alterations, refurbish and upgrade existing dwelling and all associated works all

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2021

• 18 Oct 2017Conditional

  to construct a single storey four-bedroom dwelling house, with an attached carport, new site entrance, a new septic tank and a percolation area, a new bored well and all associated site works on lands

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17691

• 21 Aug 2017Conditional

  retention of the following alterations to previously granted planning permission ref: P15/603. 1. The addition of a roof window over the entrance hall on the north elevation. 2. Replace corner window for 2 no. standard windows to the living room, reduce the size of the dinning room window, replace door with utility and W.C. windows to the south elevation. 3. Reduce the size of the dining room window, replace utility window with door, replace high level kitchen window with 2 no. low level windows to the east elevation. 4. Remove chimney and two no. roof windows, re-position 1 no. dormer window to the west elevation, and all ancillary works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 17543

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 Ballyda.

Recorded monuments

• KK023-074 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) identified as the cropmark of a fosse on an aerial photograph (CUCAP AYK057, 9 July 1969). Since 1969 the field has been subdivided and the enclosure appears to be in the NE sector of a smaller field. KK023-074----_01 aerial photograph (CUCAP AYK057, 9 July 1969) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 August 2021

• KK023-075 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  According to the OS Letters (1839), ‘There is a holy well called Lady’s Well in the Townland of Ballyda, much venerated still and frequented on the 15th of August by great numbers of devotees’ (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 274 (92)). O’Kelly (1969, 180) also mentions this well, stating that it is, ‘still frequented on the 15th of August for devotional purposes’. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 August 2021

• KK023-076 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  On a rise at the edge of a small river valley which runs E-W immediately to the S, in pasture. A large roughly circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 100m; int. diam. c. 80m). There is a rectangular annexe (dims. c. 96m E-W; c. 25m N-S) adjoining the N perimeter, the pronounced fosse of which is visible on aerial photographs (GB89.S.20, 13 July 1989; ASIAP (47) 35-7, 11 August 1998; ASIAP (108) 32, 22 July 2000). Another, smaller enclosure (KK023-077----). lies c. 100m to the NE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 August 2021

• KK023-121 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) identified as the cropmark of a fosse on an aerial photograph (GB89.S.22; 13 July 1989). A smaller ring-ditch (KK023-122---) is located c. 100m to the SSW. See attached: KK023-121----_01 aerial photograph (GB89.S.22; 13 July 1989) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland Date of revised upload: 10 September 2021

• KK023-122 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A circular enclosure (diam. c. 5m) identified as the cropmark of a fosse on an aerial photograph (GB89.S.23; 13 July 1989). A larger ring-ditch (KK023-121----) is located c. 100m to the NNE. See attached: KK023-122----_01 aerial photograph (GB89.S.23; 13 July 1989) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland Date of revised upload: 10 September 2021

• KK023-165 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Monument identified as a cropmark on aerial photographs (ASIAP (47) 31-2, 11 August 1996). A circular ring-ditch (diam. c. 15m). There is another ring-ditch (KK023-166----) 63m to the SW and another (KK023-167----) 250 m to the NE which suggests these may be part of a barrow group. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 August 2015

• KK023-166 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Monument identified as a cropmark on aerial photographs (ASIAP (47) 33-4, 11 August 1996). A circular ring-ditch (diam. c. 15m). There is another ring-ditch (KK023-165----) 63m to the NE and another (KK023-167----) c. 300 m to the NE which suggests these may be part of a barrow group. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 August 2015

• KK023-175 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A circular ring-ditch (diam. c. 10m), the fosse is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Apple maps satellite imagery), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. It is one of a number of ring-ditches in the area, including KK023-165----; KK023-166----; KK023-176---- and KK023-167---, which suggests that this was a barrow cemetery. See attached imagery: KK023-175----_01 Apple maps satellite imagery Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 13 June 2023

• KK023-176 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A circular ring-ditch (diam. c. 10m), the fosse is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Apple maps satellite imagery), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. It is one of a number of ring-ditches in the area, including KK023-165----; KK023-166----; KK023-175---- and KK023-167---, which suggests that this was a barrow cemetery. See attached imagery: KK023-176----_01 Apple maps satellite imagery Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 13 June 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyda, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyda.

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 Ballyda with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Ballyda · Baile Dháith

Area

1,380,930 m² (138.09 ha, 341.24 acres)

Civil parish

Danesfort, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelogher

Electoral division

Danesfort, the unit of the census

Census 2022

464 people lived in 172 households in the Danesfort electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cotterellsrath, Danesfort, Dundaryark, Ennisnag, Graigue Upper, Kellsgrange

Placenames

Ballyda 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.