# Bigbog, Co. Kilkenny: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballycallan, barony of Crannagh, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish An Mhóin Mhór. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 553,947 m² (55.39 ha, 136.88 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 43,730 m² (4.37 ha, 10.81 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballycallan, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/parish/ballycallan.md - Barony: Crannagh - Electoral division: St. Canice, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kilkenny, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/27062 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 90312 - Centre: latitude 52.635035, longitude -7.312288 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bigbog, from 219 m² to 207,527 m² (20.75 ha, 51.28 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 833802: 207,527 m² (20.75 ha, 51.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/833802.md - Parcel 859459: 170,587 m² (17.06 ha, 42.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/859459.md - Parcel 859817: 88,644 m² (8.86 ha, 21.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/859817.md - Parcel 831027: 82,820 m² (8.28 ha, 20.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/831027.md - Parcel 4905209: 4,640 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4905209.md - Parcel 4870560: 1,458 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4870560.md - Parcel 4870593: 1,372 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4870593.md - Parcel 4870558: 219 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4870558.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Bigbog 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 9 Jul 2025, Kilkenny County Council 2560416: Conditional. Permission. for development. The development will consist of planning permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a solar PV energy development, battery storage and grid route with a total site area of 25.1 hectares, comprising of the construction of PV panels mounted on metal frames, MV Power Stations, substation, batteries, MV stations, new access tracks, underground cabling and ducting, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, a temporary construction compound, 10kV underground cabling connecting the solar farm to the existing Rosehill 38kV substation, and all ancillary grid infrastructure and associated works. The proposed development consists of works within the curtilage of Protected Structures Ref. C1000, C1002 and C330. The development would be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560416/0 - 16 Apr 2025, Kilkenny County Council 2560202: N/a. Permission. for development at this site. The development will consist of planning permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a solar PV energy development, battery storage and grid route with a total site area of 25.1 hectares, comprising of the construction of PV panels mounted on metal frames, MV Power Stations, substation, batteries, MV stations, new access tracks, underground cabling and ducting, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, a temporary construction compound, 10kV underground cabling connecting the solar farm to the existing Rosehill 38kV substation, and all ancillary grid infrastructure and associated works. The development would be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560202/0 - 17 Dec 2021, Kilkenny County Council 211029: N/a. Permission, 1 home. to construct a two storey dwelling, with a waste water treatment system, and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/211029/0 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 Bigbog. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bigbog. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bigbog. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2150, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2150.zip (ZIP). - 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/bigbog.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/bigbog.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/bigbog.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bigbog 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) - Aughtanny: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/aughtanny.md - Ballyhendricken: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/ballyhendricken.md - Baunreagh: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/baunreagh-90287.md - Castleblunden: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/castleblunden.md - Damma Lower: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/damma-lower.md - Drakeland Upper: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/drakeland-upper.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/bigbog - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kilkenny/bigbog