Ballynalina
Townland in the civil parish of St. Canice, barony of Shillelogher, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish Baile na Laighneach
- Area
- 117.9 ha
- 291 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 2,843 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynalina, from 110 m² to 301,433 m² (30.14 ha, 74.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Ballynalina 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
11 Feb 2025Conditional
to erect new dwelling and garage with treatment plant, soil polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560052
18 Jul 2023Conditional
for the erection of a dwelling house and domestic garage / store with treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2360324
6 May 2022N/a
for the construction of recreational lighting to the existing perimeter walking track at the club grounds, the lighting system will consist of 5m high lamp standards and all associated site development works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22291
4 Mar 2022N/a
for the construction of recreational lighting to the existing perimeter walking track at the club grounds, the lighting system will consist of 5m high lamp standards and all associated site development works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22139
25 Jan 2022Conditional
for a new two storey dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, new residential site entrance, plus all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2245
30 Jan 2019Conditional
for the retention indefinitely of amendments to Phase 1 of the clubhouse and changing rooms approved as part of planning permission ref 09/126 (An Bord Pleanala Ref No. 10.235313) along with Permission for the construction of further phases of the clubhouse and changing rooms, the design of which is amended from that previously approved as part of planning permission ref 09/126 (An Bord Pleanala Ref No. 10.235313), and all associated site development works. This application is for a 10-year permission to develop the site in a phased manner.
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 1942
16 May 2018Conditional
for a part two storey part single storey dwelling house and garage, associated treatment system, along with all site and ancillary works at
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18316
20 Feb 2018Conditional
to construct a domestic garage and associated works at
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18108
2 May 2017Conditional
to construct a two storey extension to the side of existing dwelling, internal and elevational modifications and all associated site development works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17273
21 Mar 2017Conditional
Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission ref: 16/726 to construct a 2 storey dwelling, garage, entrance, waste treatment system with percolation area, connection to mains water supply, soakpits and all other associated site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17170
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 Ballynalina.
Recorded monuments
- KK019-144 Ring-ditch
Description
In tillage. A small circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m), defined by a fosse with a possible outer bank, which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Apple Maps satellite imagery), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. Another ring-ditch (KK023-145----) is located c. 70m to the SE. There are two enclosures (KK019-146---- and KK023-177---) c. 290-330m to the SE. See attached imagery: KK019-144----_01 Apple maps satellite imagery Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 June 2023
- KK019-145 Ring-ditch
Description
In tillage. A small circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m), defined by a fosse, which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Apple Maps satellite imagery), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. Another ring-ditch (KK023-144----) is located c. 70m to the NW. There are two enclosures (KK019-146---- and KK023-177---) c. 220-260m to the SE. See attached imagery: KK019-145----_01 Apple maps satellite imagery Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 June 2023
- KK019-146 Enclosure
Description
In tillage. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), defined by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Apple maps satellite imagery), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. Another similar enclosure (KK023-177----) is located c. 50m to the SW and there are two ring-ditches (KK019-144---- and KK019-145----) c. 260-330m to the NW. See attached imagery: KK019-146----_01 Apple maps satellite imagery Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 June 2023
- KK023-012001 Enclosure
Description
A circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) identified as the cropmark of a fosse on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BGG025, 16 July 1971). A field boundary, now a farm roadway, runs NE-SW across the N portion of the enclosure. Some linear ditches, possibly a related field system (KK023-012002-), were also identified as cropmarks on the aerial photograph. See attached: KK023-012001-_01 aerial photograph (CUCAP BGG025, 16 July 1971) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 1 June 2021
- KK023-012002 Field system
Description
A circular enclosure (KK023-012001-) identified as the cropmark of a fosse on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BGG025, 16 July 1971). Some linear ditches, possibly a related field system, were also identified as cropmarks on the aerial photograph. One appears to run to the SW from the S fosse of the enclosure, with other linear cropmarks running E and N from this. There is a curvilinear cropmark W of the enclosure and another NW of the enclosure. These appear to be interconnected. See attached: KK023-012002-_01 aerial photograph (CUCAP BGG025, 16 July 1971) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 1 June 2021
- KK023-177 Enclosure
Description
In tillage. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), defined by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth satellite imagery, imagery date 13 August 2015). Another similar enclosure (KK019-146----) is located c. 50m to the NW and there are two ring-ditches (KK019-144---- and KK019-145----) c. 220-290m to the NW. See attached imagery: KK023-177----_01 Apple maps satellite imagery Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 June 2023
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynalina.
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 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 Ballynalina.
- 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 Ballynalina with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynalina · Baile na Laighneach
- Area
- 1,179,459 m² (117.95 ha, 291.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Canice, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelogher
- Electoral division
- Outrath, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Outrath electoral division: 768 people in 261 households; 89% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Birchfield, Bodalmore, Foulkstown, Glebe, Goslingstown, Grevine East, Kilmog or Racecourse, Knocklegan, Outrath
- Placenames
- Ballynalina 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.