Ballybought

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybought, from 44 m² to 374,511 m² (37.45 ha, 92.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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 Ballybought 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.

• 25 Sept 2025Conditional

  for a proposed bungalow, new wastewater treatment system, new combined entrance & driveway, and all ancillary site works, to include boundary treatments & landscaping, stormwater to soakaways & connection to mains water. Revised by Significant Further Information which comprises an alteration to the proposed position of the dwelling on the site

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561090

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  (a) Proposed new single storey dwelling; (b) Domestic garage; (c) Treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211826

• 6 Dec 2021N/a

  (a) Proposed new single storey dwelling; (b) Domestic garage; (c) Treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211715

• 24 Jul 2019Conditional

  the construction of an extension to the existing dwelling house, a new wastewater treatment system, and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 19829

• 3 May 2017Conditional

  the construction of single storey dwelling with on site sewage treatment system and double garage with all site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17505

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballybought.

Recorded monuments

• KD029-021001 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  On a hilltop (OD 567 feet) in pasture, with panoramic views in all directions. A road bends and partially truncates the outer limits of the monument WNW-NNE. A low oval, central area (base diams. 9.7m E-W; 6.9m N-S; summit diams. 6m E-W; 4.4m N-S; H 0.1m at W-0.6m at E) is encircled by a broad level berm (Wth 12.2m at E-18.7m at N), enclosed by a shallow fosse (Wth 1.8m; D 0.4-0.6m) NW-E-S-SW, and by an outer earthen bank (int H 1.1-1.6m; Wth 3.3m at N-7.7m at S: ext. diams. 54m E-W; 54m N-S). Rubble is dumped on the central mound and clay is dumped on the outer bank and fosse at WNW. Wire and post fencing is erected on the outer bank along the N and runs immediately inside and outside the bank at NE. A telephone pole stands on the outer bank at E. The latest ed. (1939-40) of the OS 6-inch map records a souterrain (KD029-021002-) in the interior of the monument. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 11 September 2013

• KD029-022 Church
  Description

  In a graveyard (KD029-022001-). In 1615, the church was described as having been repaired (Ronan 1941a, 40), but by 1630 the church and chancel had fallen (Ronan 1941b, 80). According to O’Conor, jointly compiling the OSL in 1839 (Herity 2002, 199 (282)), ‘One gable of an old Church remains here, having a window with a small stone cross placed over it.’ Walshe (1931, 140-1) doesn’t mention the cross, but describes the window; ‘Only the east gable now stands. In the centre of this wall is a narrow Gothic window 46 inches by 12¾ inches [c. 1.16m by c. 0.32m), consisting of two granite pillars surmounted by two carved granite stones to form the arch. The splay is rather pronounced giving a total height of 7 feet 6½ inches [c. 2.3m] and breadth of 5 feet 3 inches [c. 1.6m].’ The remains of a ruined rectangular structure (12.7m E-W; 5.2m N-S) comprise the overgrown, split rubble-limestone, lower courses of the S side wall and W gable wall (H 1m; wall T 0.9m) together with the even lower remains of the N sidewall (H 0.1-0.4m) and the ivy-clad S end of the E gable wall (H 2.2m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 11 September 2013

• KD029-022001 Graveyard
  Description

  Near the top of a gentle E-facing pasture slope. An overgrown D-shaped area (diam. c. 47m WNW-ESE) with a straight W side (L c. 42m NNE-SSW) is enclosed by a low earthen bank (int. H 0.5-0.7m; Wth 3.1-3.8m; ext H 1.2-1.6m) and shallow outer fosse (Wth 1.2-2.3m; D 0.2-0.4m). The interior contains a very ruined church (KD029-022001-) and the legible grave markers date from the 18th-century. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 11 September 2013

• KD029-034 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On a W-facing pasture slope, and the source of a small W-flowing stream. According to O’Conor, jointly compiling the OSL in 1839 (Herity 2002, 199 (283)), ‘… to the N. West of it [Ballybought Church: KD029-022----] was St. John’s Well which, as I was informed, is now closed up.’ Jackson (1979-80, 154) could source, ‘… no information about this well, except that it used to be regarded as holy'. No evidence of enclosure or veneration. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 16 September 2013

• KD029-050 Bullaun stone
  Description

  On a gentle W-facing slope in improved pasture. A granite boulder (L 1.4m; Wth 1.2m; H 0.46m) has an almost circular water-filled bullaun/basin on its upper surface (diam. 0.46m). Known locally as ‘the wart stone’. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 September 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballybought, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballybought with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Ballybought

Area

2,094,181 m² (209.42 ha, 517.48 acres)

Civil parish

Ballybought, and its townlands

Barony

Naas South

Electoral division

Gilltown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,028 people lived in 352 households in the Gilltown electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Alliganstown, Ardinode East, Ardinode West, Boleybeg, Broadleas Commons, Longstone, Whiteleas

Placenames

Ballybought 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.