# Ballyhack, Co. Kilkenny: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballycallan, barony of Crannagh, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish Baile Hac. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 242,205 m² (24.22 ha, 59.85 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,152 m² (1.02 ha, 2.51 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballycallan, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/parish/ballycallan.md - Barony: Crannagh - Electoral division: Ballycallan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 461 people lived in 147 households in the Ballycallan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kilkenny, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/26717 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 90142 - Centre: latitude 52.623273, longitude -7.373169 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhack, from 146 m² to 83,332 m² (8.33 ha, 20.59 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 862904: 83,332 m² (8.33 ha, 20.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/862904.md - Parcel 824600: 30,757 m² (3.08 ha, 7.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/824600.md - Parcel 2543195: 29,224 m² (2.92 ha, 7.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2543195.md - Parcel 824599: 28,113 m² (2.81 ha, 6.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/824599.md - Parcel 2543196: 23,076 m² (2.31 ha, 5.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2543196.md - Parcel 2667642: 18,363 m² (1.84 ha, 4.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2667642.md - Parcel 862906: 14,950 m² (1.49 ha, 3.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/862906.md - Parcel 824601: 5,355 m² (0.54 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/824601.md - Parcel 5708724: 3,913 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5708724.md - Parcel 870466: 1,718 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/870466.md - Parcel 3693149: 981 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3693149.md - Parcel 862905: 406 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/862905.md - Parcel 3693143: 377 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3693143.md - Parcel 3693148: 146 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3693148.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhack in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 30 Dec 2020, Kilkenny County Council 20932: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the erection of a dwelling house with treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20932/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyhack. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KK018-099: Architectural fragment, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK018-099----. According to Holahan (1883, 86-7), some of the stones from the church of Kilballykeefe (KK022-015001-) were 'removed to Ballycallan for the purpose of building a porch to the old chapel (the present schoolhouse)'. When visited in 1994 no medieval fabric was visible amongst the external limestone rubble of the schoolhouse which was rendered internally. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 July 2020 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyhack. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballyhack, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyhack. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/ballyhack.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/ballyhack.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/ballyhack.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyhack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Balleven: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/balleven.md - Ballycallan: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/ballycallan.md - Doorath: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/doorath.md - Gorteenteen: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/gorteenteen.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/ballyhack - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kilkenny/ballyhack