Ballyfoyle

188 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfoyle, from 29 m² to 545,513 m² (54.55 ha, 134.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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 Ballyfoyle 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.

• 15 May 2026Conditional

  For: 1. Single storey extension to west side of dwelling 2. Single storey extension to rear of dwelling 3. Alterations to rear roof profile at first floor level and new window 4. Porch and lobby extension to front of dwelling 5. Roof lights to attic space on west elevation 6. All necessary services and site works.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660290

• 22 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct single storey extension for the provision of additional kitchen/living spaces. The design includes for alterations to existing elevations of the dwelling, with all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560446

• 18 Nov 2024Conditional

  for a single storey dwelling, vehicular entrance, borewell, detached garage, foul treatment tank & percolation area, proposed re-location of the existing agricultural entrance. Including all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460551

• 18 Dec 2023Conditional

  to construct a new single storey dwelling, stables, dungsted, underground effluent storage tank, new entrance, private borewell, wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2360587

• 5 Oct 2022Conditional

  to construct a single storey kitchen / dining extension to the right side and a single storey en-suite extension to the left side of the existing dwelling with the proposed addition of 2 roof lights to the front and a dormer window to the rear of the existing dwelling, and all associated site works on our lands

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22657

• 13 Aug 2021Refused

  for a private residence, detached garage, vehicular entrance and driveway, borewell, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works on lands located

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21698

• 27 Jul 2021Conditional

  to construct a 51 meter single storey extension to the rear of an existing dwelling, elevational changes and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21646

• 27 Apr 2021Conditional

  on the grant of Outline Permission PL/REF/19951 for erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage / store, treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21345

• 19 Jan 2021Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling, garage and new entrance from public road with septic tank, percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2119

• 14 Jul 2020Refused

  for a change of use of one of the existing farm buildings from agricultural use to a light engineering workshop which will also include an office and staff canteen within the building together with an associated toilet and parking facilities

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20448

• 6 Apr 2020Conditional

  to construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, install septic tank with percolation area, form new entrance with all associate site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20216

• 19 Dec 2019Conditional

  for the erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage / store, treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19950

• 19 Dec 2019Conditional

  for erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage / store, treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19951

• 20 Nov 2018Conditional

  to construct a one and a half storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, entrance to public road, private borewell, wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all other associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18764

• 13 Jun 2018Conditional

  retention permission for a general-purpose outbuilding erected on our lands located at

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 18383

• 31 May 2018N/a

  for a general purpose outbuilding on lands located at

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 18361

• 11 May 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey dwelling and detached garage, with septic tank/ percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17308

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 Ballyfoyle.

Recorded monuments

• KK014-021001 Church
  Description

  On the E side and just below the crest of a N-S ridge between two valleys, in rolling grassland. There are excellent views in all directions. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 466), this church is 'known to the local Irish speakers as Killavoogue'. Only the footings (Wth c. 1m; H 0.2-0.4m) of the rectangular church (dims. c. 14m E-W; c. 7m N-S) survive. It is enclosed within a roughly circular graveyard (KK014-021002-). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 May 2020

• KK014-021002 Graveyard
  Description

  On the E side and just below the crest of a N-S ridge between two valleys, in rolling grassland. There are excellent views in all directions. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 466), this church is 'known to the local Irish speakers as Killavoogue'. It is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as, 'Kilmogue Grave Yard for Children' and is described in the OS Letters (1839) as, ‘a small enclosure like a low rath a little to the south of the old Church in the townland of Ballyfoyle, which the people call Cill Mogue (the Cell of Maodhoge); there remains no appearance of a building but they make it the place of sepulture of still-born or very young infants’ (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 31 (11)). A roughly circular graveyard (diam. c. 50m) defined by a very low bank (Wth c. 1.5m; H 0.1-0.2m) encloses the remains of the church (KK014-021001-). The bank is not evident in the E quadrant where the ground level drops down towards a stream. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 May 2020

• KK014-022 Castle - ringwork
  Description

  On top of the S end of a N-S ridge between two valleys, with very steep slopes to E, S and W. In a very prominent defensive position. There are excellent views in all directions. A raised circular area (diam. 33m) enclosed by a bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 4.2m; Wth at crest 2m; overall Wth 6-8m); fosse (Wth 3.7m; D 1.3m) and intermittent traces of a possible outer bank (ext. H 0.4m; Wth 1.5m) which may be an old field boundary. The location and morphology of the monument suggest that this may be a ringwork rather than a ringfort. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 May 2020

• KK014-023001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On the E side of a farmyard which is located on the E side of a valley adjacent to a small stream, in rolling grassland. There are fair to good views along the valley though they are limited to E and W where the land rises. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 465) the castle, ‘was built, or was occupied soon after its erection, by the Purcells, who were the feudal lords of the greater part of the present Catholic parish of Muckalee, during the 15th and 16th centuries and early part of the 17th. Under the Cromwellian regime, Philip Purcell, being an Irish Papist, was declared to have forfeited his estate of Ballyfoyle, which was thereupon granted, with Ballyfoyle castle, to one of Cromwell’s followers named Tobias Cramer’. The castle continued to be inhabited, together with a 17th-century house (KK014-023002-) which was attached to it, until c. 1748, about three years after the house had unexpectedly collapsed (ibid.). In c. 1810 the upper portion of the castle was removed, ‘including the garret and one or two storeys underneath it, [which] was thrown down to supply materials for building purposes’ (ibid.). A rectangular tower house (ext. dims. 12.8m N-S; 8.5m E-W; N wall is actually the NW wall etc.) surviving to third-floor level, built of roughly coursed limestone rubble (wall T 2.3m) with dressed quoins and a base-batter (H 3.2m). The lower portion of the quoins are robbed out to a height of c. 3m. All surviving doorways are pointed and the windows are ogee-headed within wide embrasures. The tower house is entered via a doorway at the E end of the N wall with yett-hole at the apex. This leads into a lobby with a small barrel-vaulted chamber or guardroom to the W, a doorway to the E giving access to a spiral stair rising in the NE angle and an opposing doorway giving access to the main ground-floor chamber. Apart from the small ground-floor chamber, there are no other vaults in the tower house, the upper chambers being carried on wooden floors supported on punch-dressed corbels. The ground floor is lit by a single-light window in the E wall with a gun-loop in the S splay of the embrasure. There was another window in the W wall but this window embrasure has been broken through to create a large opening. The first floor consists of a small chamber running along the N wall and a larger chamber to the S, accessed from the spiral stair. The main chamber at second-floor level is accessed from the spiral stair and is lit by a single-light window at the S end of the E wall, a blocked-up double-light window in the S wall and a single-light window at the N end of the W wall. A doorway in the S wall of the W window embrasure gives access to an L-shaped mural chamber lit by an angle-loop. There is also a doorway in the W wall of the S window embrasure which gives access to an L-shaped chamber also lit by an angle-loop. The main chamber has a large fireplace at the S end of the W wall. A doorway in the N wall of the main chamber opens onto a small chamber lit by a window in the N wall and an angle-loop. Also at second-floor level, but accessed from the spiral stair, is a small garderobe in the E wall lit by a single window. The presence of a gun-loop and the lack of a main vault suggests a late 16th-century date for this tower house. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 May 2020

Architectural heritage

• Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1865–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay double-height Gothic Revival Catholic church, built 1866-72, on site of earlier Catholic chapel, pre-1840, comprising five-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height lower chancel to east having single-bay single-storey sacristy to south-east. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles having decorative crested ridge to nave, cut-stone chamfered coping to gables having cross finials to apexes, cut-limestone buttressed gabled bellcote to apex to sacristy (with trefoil-headed aperture on chamfered course having chamfered reveals, cast-iron bell, and cut-limestone coping having cross finial to apex), and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone chamfered eaves. Irregular coursed tooled cut-limestone walls with cut-limestone buttresses (stepped to entrance (west) front) having cut-limestone coping, and cut-limestone plaque over entrance bay having cut-limestone pointed-arch surround supporting squared limestone voussoirs. Trefoil-headed lancet window openings (some paired; paired to entrance (west) front in pointed-arch frame having quatrefoil to arch, and hood moulding over supporting squared limestone voussoirs; paired to chancel having quatrefoil to gable) on carved cut-limestone sill course with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, squared limestone voussoirs, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening with cut-limestone surround having carved rebated reveals, hood moulding over supporting squared limestone voussoirs, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overpanel. Full-height interior open into roof with glazed timber panelled internal porch incorporating glazed timber panelled double doors having glazed timber panelled re-entrant flanking doors, timber floors incorporating herring-bone pattern, timber pews, quatrefoil panelled timber panelled gallery to first floor on Doric columns, bull-nose reveals to window openings, exposed timber roof construction on cut-stone corbels, pointed-arch chancel arch with chamfered reveals, and Gothic-style altar furniture. Set in own grounds with random rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter of site having rubble limestone piers, and iron gate. (ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, pre-1840-present.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched cottage with dormer attic, c.1800. Pitched roof with wheat thatch having rope work to ridge, red brick Running bond squat chimney stack, and rendered coping to gables. Painted roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction with slight batter. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds with painted roughcast piers having shallow pyramidal capping, and iron gate. (ii) Detached nine-bay single-storey outbuilding with half-attic, c.1875, to north comprising three-bay single-storey central block with three-bay single-storey flush lateral wing to right, and three-bay single-storey recessed lateral wing to left having elliptical-headed carriageway. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on squared rubble limestone eaves. Random rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings (some slit-style) with cut-limestone sills, cut-limestone lintels, and timber fittings. Square-headed door openings with cut-limestone lintels, and timber boarded doors. Elliptical-headed carriageway with tooled cut-limestone voussoirs, and timber boarded doors.

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 Ballyfoyle, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyfoyle · Baile an Phoill

Area

5,824,432 m² (582.44 ha, 1,439.25 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmadum, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Kilkieran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

709 people lived in 222 households in the Kilkieran electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghpook, Drumerhin, Grove or Cramersgrove, Kilkieran, Kilmademoge, Kilmadum, Knocknew, Ruthstown, Tullowbrin

Placenames

Ballyfoyle 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.