Ballyknock

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyknock, from 355 m² to 142,080 m² (14.21 ha, 35.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Ballyknock 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.

• 9 Apr 2026N/a

  for 2.1m safety fence, flood lighting and drainage to juvenile playing field and walking track around juvenile field perimeter and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660209

• 14 Jul 2025Conditional

  for a new fence to the perimeter of the existing astroturf playing area, new fence to roadside boundary, GAA dugouts, wheelchair ramp, access steps, digital scoreboards, public lighting to car park and spectator seating and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560425

• 4 Jun 2024N/a

  for the extension and upgrade of astroturf facilities with lighting, fencing and a 5m hurling wall, public lighting to car park, drainage to juvenile playing field, GAA dugouts, spectator seating and wheelchair access ramp and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460259

• 21 Sept 2022Conditional

  for Retention of Converted First floor Area to Living Accommodation to include all Elevations and existing Site Layout. Permission to install a Fire Escape Roof Type Window to existing sloped roof and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 22628

• 7 Aug 2020Conditional

  to construct a cubicle shed with feed passage, slatted tank & all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20509

• 10 Dec 2019Conditional

  for the following works. Levelling of existing agricultural field in order to provide full size GAA playing field, installation of goalposts and ball stop nets behind goalposts, construction of passing bay, construction of emergency access road, extension of car park to provide 40 no. additional car parking spaces, installation of bicycle parking facilities and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19912

• 26 May 2017Conditional

  to construct a new livestock shed with slatted tank and all associated works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17340

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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kylecorragh Wood 000842

Recorded monuments

• KK037-011001 Moated site
  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.

• KK037-011003 Souterrain
  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

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

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 Ballyknock, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyknock · Baile an Chnoic

Area

1,843,614 m² (184.36 ha, 455.57 acres)

Civil parish

Dysartmoon, and its townlands

Barony

Ida

Electoral division

Dysartmoon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

265 people lived in 92 households in the Dysartmoon electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyneale, Ballyreddy, Brownstown, Glentiroe, Hoodsgrove, Tinnaranny

Placenames

Ballyknock 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.