Ballycarnan
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcolmanbane, barony of Maryborough East, Co. Laois; in Irish Baile Uí Chearnacháin
- Area
- 341.1 ha
- 843 acres
- Land parcels
- 95
- registered freehold, median 8,056 m² (0.81 ha, 1.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 27
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
95 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycarnan, from 272 m² to 229,453 m² (22.95 ha, 56.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 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 Ballycarnan 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
18 Feb 2026Conditional
Retain a dwelling house extension, sunroom, car port and domestic garage/fuel shed
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 268
27 Jan 2026Conditional
construct a domestic garage along with a caravan storage shed adjacent to an existing dwelling house
Permission · Laois County Council, 2660033
3 Dec 2025Conditional
construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560805
4 Mar 2025Conditional
Construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2560105
13 Jun 2024Conditional
construct new dwelling house, garage/shed, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460344
11 Jun 2024N/a
construct new dwelling house, garage/shed, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2460338
29 Sept 2023Conditional
extend and alter rear of an existing dwelling house and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360407
27 Sept 2023N/a
construct an extension and alterations to the rear of an existing dwelling house and all associated site works.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2360400
22 Mar 2023Conditional
retain the ridge height of dwelling house and also storage space created in attic. Retain one additional velux window in rear slope of roof.
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2394
29 Jul 2022Conditional
construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system together with new site entrance, along with all ancillary site services and associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22476
15 Jul 2022Refused
construct 2 no. two storey dwellings and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22437
4 Jul 2022N/a
construct 2 no. two storey detached dwellings and associated siteworks
Permission · Laois County Council, 22404
20 Apr 2022Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/store septic tank, percolation area, bored well, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22242
16 Dec 2021N/a
construct a dwelling house, domestic garage / store, septic tank, percolation area, bored well, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21879
16 Nov 2021Refused
construct new dwelling house and garage, new site entrance, new treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21774
14 Jul 2021Conditional
construct new dwelling house, detached garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21508
7 Jul 2021Conditional
construct a new dwelling house, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21484
30 Jun 2021Conditional
construct dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system with soil polishing filter, bored well and entrance
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21468
28 May 2021Conditional
new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment system & percolation area, new bored well, new site entrance and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21382
27 May 2021N/a
new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment system & percolation area, new bored well, new site entrance and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 21377
15 Apr 2021Conditional
to construct a livestock housing shed and a separate feed and bedding store & new site entrance, together with all ancillary services.
Permission · Laois County Council, 21225
24 Feb 2021Conditional
install a walking track with lighting and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 21109
19 Feb 2021Refused
construct new dwelling house and garage, new site entrance, new treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21100
29 Jan 2021Conditional
extension to dwelling house, conversion of attic to sleeping accommodation with four velux windows fitted in roof, construction of domestic garage/ store, garden shed and carport
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2139
4 Feb 2019N/a
construct 2 no. two storey detached dwellings and associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 1963
The 25 most recent of 27 applications.
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 Ballycarnan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballycarnan.
Architectural heritage
- Lalor's Mills, miller's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement mill house, c. 1820. Single-storey store attached to left. Six-bay two-storey mill building attached to right. Now in ruins.
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 Ballycarnan.
- 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 Ballycarnan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Ballycarnan · Baile Uí Chearnacháin
- Area
- 3,411,244 m² (341.12 ha, 842.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcolmanbane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Maryborough East
- Electoral division
- Kilcolmanbane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcolmanbane electoral division: 627 people in 208 households; 96% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyknockan, Cappoley, Cashel, Clonaddadoran, Kilcolmanbane, Meelick, Pass
- Placenames
- Ballycarnan 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.