Ballyhendricken
Townland in the civil parish of Ballycallan, barony of Crannagh, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish Baile Heinricín
- Area
- 199.4 ha
- 493 acres
- Land parcels
- 76
- registered freehold, median 3,825 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 18
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhendricken, from 22 m² to 275,843 m² (27.58 ha, 68.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhendricken 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
14 May 2026N/a
sought for proposed extension and alterations to existing house and associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2645
1 Sept 2025Refused
for retention as built is being sought Garreth Cahill for: 1. Single-storey log cabin for residential purposes. 2. One steel container for storage of animal feed and general domestic storage. 3. Planning Permission for New Sewage treatment system and associated percolation area and all associated screen landscape planting and associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560561
25 Aug 2025Conditional
for (1) a proposed single storey dwelling extension and internal and external alterations to an existing dwelling house currently under construction which was previously granted planning permission under Pl. Ref: 18561 (2) upgrading of the proposed domestic wastewater treatment system as previously permitted under Pl. Ref: 18561 (3) relocating the existing single storey domestic garage as previously permitted under Pl. Ref: 18561 and (4) all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560544
11 Apr 2024Conditional
for a proposed development consisting of two number single slatted sheds, including underground slatted storage tanks, feed apron and all associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460172
22 Sept 2023Refused
for 1) existinq dwellinq as constructed 2) section of road way to existing dwelling and permission for 1) to clad the existinq dwellinq with concrete board and nap plaster finish 2) extension to existinq dwellinq 3) new treatment plant and soil polishinq filter 4) proposed well and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2360417
14 Jun 2023Conditional
for the retention of 45m.sq single storey steel frame domestic garage. Garage roof and walls are clad in steel cladding. Building structure height is 3.3m to ridge
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2360255
29 Mar 2023Refused
to construct a single storey shed, including all associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2375
13 Dec 2022Refused
for (1) timber frame Log Cabin with septic tank and well.(2) existing steel containers for storage and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22782
28 Sept 2021Conditional
for unauthorized demolition of a dilapidated dwelling plus indefinite retention of a new dormer style two bedroom dwelling, plus permission is sought for a new wastewater treatment system plus all associated site works
Retention, 2 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 21807
30 Apr 2021Conditional
for the erection of a dwelling house and domesitc garage/store with treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21360
28 Aug 2020Conditional
is sought for: A) Replace existing grage door with a window, B) Construct a new flat roof over footpath between existing dwelling and fuel store C) Retention for existing constructed to rear of existing dwelling and all assocaited site development works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20570
12 Jun 2020Conditional
for a proposed new single storey bungalow style dwelling & detached garage, new vehicular entrance off existing shared driveway, packaged waste water treatment system and percolation area, storm water soakaways, borewell and all associated site and ancillary works at existing vehicular entrance
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20360
17 Apr 2019Refused
for the erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage / store, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19264
2 Apr 2019N/a
for the erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site works at
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19206
3 Sept 2018Conditional
on the Outline Permission reference 15-655 is sought for 2 storey residence to include garage, treatment system, road entrance, boundary treatment, landscaping and all ancillary and associated works at
Permission consequent, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18582
24 Aug 2018Conditional
for a dormer type dwelling, detached garage, vehicular entrance and driveway, bore well, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18561
9 Apr 2018N/a
to construct a new dwelling, detached garage, proprietary wastewater treatment plant, and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18222
24 Nov 2017Conditional
to construct a new porch on the front of the existing dwelling and to convert an existing attached garage to a playroom. To demolish an existing detached garage and construct a new domestic garage together with all other associated site works at
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17779
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 Ballyhendricken.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyhendricken.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyhendricken.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyhendricken.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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
No address of the register names Ballyhendricken with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyhendricken · Baile Heinricín
- Area
- 1,994,224 m² (199.42 ha, 492.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballycallan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Crannagh
- Electoral division
- St. Canice, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- St. Canice electoral division: 607 people in 197 households; 92% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bigbog, Cloghoge, Damma Lower, Damma Upper, Drakeland Upper, Kylebeg, Newtown
- Placenames
- Ballyhendricken 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.