Ballaghmoon Castle
Ballaghmoon Castle is a townland in the civil parish of Ballaghmoon, barony of Kilkea and Moone, Co. Kildare.
Parcel 1016986
- Area
- 17,380 m² (1.74 ha, 4.29 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballaghmoon Castle
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.
- KD039-014 Church
Description
Church ruins in S quadrant of graveyard (KD039-014001-). A simple rectangular structure (dims. 17m x 6m) of undressed, mortared, roughly coursed limestone, completely overgrown with ivy. Only the E portion still stands. There are two narrow lights with rear splays (and possible round heads) in the E gable, and one small rubble arch in the S wall close to the E corner (H. 0.8m). Its purpose is unclear; if it functioned as an entrance, there appears to have been a considerable build-up of the ground level, both inside and outside the church. Date of upload: 6 September 2016
- KD039-014001 Graveyard
Description
Church ruins (KD039-014----) in S quadrant of sub-rectangular shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 44m N-S x 75m E-W). Date of upload: 6 September 2016
- KD039-015 Enclosure
Description
Shown as a rectangular enclosure defined by a bank with an external fosse on the 1837 OS 6-inch map (dims. c. 50m N-S x c. E-W). Aerial photographs (CUCAP ASU 83, BOC 60) show a cropmark of a broad fosse surrounding a rectangular area. Levelled c. 1890 during which 'an unflagged chamber, full of black barley and ashes.. ' which filled twenty-seven cartloads was uncovered, probably a corn-drying kiln (JKAS 1896, 193-4). Situated on a slight SW facing slope, in a tillage area. Probably a moated site. No visible surface traces. Date of upload: 6 September 2016
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2547 (ZIP).
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 119.7 ha
- 296 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 6,786 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghmoon Castle, from 252 m² to 448,261 m² (44.83 ha, 110.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballaghmoon Castle 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
3 Apr 2023Conditional
the demolition of an existing single story rear extension and the construction of a new extension to the side and rear of existing cottage, a new onsite wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site and landscaping works. This application includes a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23337
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Oakpark 000810
Recorded monuments
- KD039-023 Enclosure
Description
Shown on the 1909 OS 6-inch map as circular area surrounded by a bank (max diam. c. 55m). No visible surface traces. Aerial photograph (GB89.R.21) shows cropmark of a trapezoidal enclosure (with a possible entrance facing SE) defined by a fosse. Date of upload: 6 September 2016
- KD039-037 Road - road/trackway
Description
Aerial photograph (GB89.R22.) shows the cropmark of two long, parallel fosses defining a trackway running N to S, immediately west of an enclosure (KD039-023----). Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 13 December 2011
- KD039-040 Field system
Description
Aerial photograph (GB89.R.23) shows the cropmark of an extensive sequence of curvilinear and rectilinear fosses forming a field system. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 13 December 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballaghmoon Castle.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballaghmoon Castle, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2547 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballaghmoon Castle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballaghmoon Castle
- Area
- 1,197,368 m² (119.74 ha, 295.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballaghmoon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilkea and Moone
- Electoral division
- Ballaghmoon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 223 people lived in 80 households in the Ballaghmoon electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballaghmoon, Knocknagee, Monaclaudy, Newtownallen, Oakpark or Painestown (Co. Carlow)
- Placenames
- Ballaghmoon Castle 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.