Ballygallon

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygallon, from 375 m² to 481,076 m² (48.11 ha, 118.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Ballygallon 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.

• 17 Oct 2019Conditional

  to retain the agricultural laneway to help safely access the farmland from the existing agricultural field entrance at the public road

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 19768

• 14 Mar 2017Conditional

  for development. The development will consist of the construction of new 4 bedroom part single storey/part two storey dwelling house with a detached domestic garage, accessed through existing shared entrance from public road, new sewage treatment system with soil polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17156

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Inistioge 000837

Recorded monuments

• KK033-001 Enclosure
  Description

  At the base of a steep NW-facing slope of the valley of the Sruhnasilloge river, a tributary of the River Nore, in pasture. There are good views to the NW along the Nore river valley. Ground levels out in the adjoining field to the N. This enclosure is indicated on the 1st (1839-40) ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by hachures. The monument is not depicted on the 2nd (1903) edition which suggests it was levelled between 1839 and 1903. The enclosure is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 4 October 2016

• KK033-002 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KK033-003 Rock art
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KK033-047 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Rockview, house, 1865–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, c.1875, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier range, pre-1840, on site with two-storey canted bay window to right, and three-bay two-storey recessed lower wing to left on an L-shaped plan incorporating canted bay window to centre ground floor with single-bay two-storey projecting end bay to left. Renovated. Hipped slate roof (continuing into half-polygonal section to canted bay window; pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan to wing) with clay ridge tiles (decorative clay ridge tiles to wing), rendered chimney stacks, rooflights to wing, timber bargeboards to gables having finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered box eaves. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings (including to canted bay windows; in tripartite arrangement to ground floor to end bay to wing having Venetian window opening over to first floor) with rendered sills (forming sill course to canted bay windows), and one-over-one timber sash windows (some possibly replacement with one-over-one sidelights to tripartite and to Venetian openings; three-over-six timber sash window to canted bay window to wing having one-over-two sidelights). Segmental-headed door opening under cut-stone Doric doorcase (with columns having responsive pilasters supporting frieze, entablature, and moulded cornice supporting blocking course) with timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed flanking door openings with glazed timber panelled double doors. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds on a slightly elevated site overlooking River Nore.

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 Ballygallon, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2325 (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 Ballygallon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Ballygallon · Baile Galláin

Area

1,370,199 m² (137.02 ha, 338.58 acres)

Civil parish

Inistioge, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Famma, the unit of the census

Census 2022

341 people lived in 118 households in the Famma electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappagh, Inistioge, Kilcross, Kilmacshane, Rathleen

Placenames

Ballygallon 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.