Ballysize

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballysize, from 507 m² to 231,399 m² (23.14 ha, 57.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Ballysize 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.

• 18 Jun 2026N/a

  The development will consist of full planning permission for the construction of a part single storey, part two-storey dwelling, detached garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance, and all associated site works and services.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660662

• 18 Jun 2026Refused

  The development will consist of full planning permission for the construction of a part single storey, part two-storey dwelling, detached garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance, and all associated site works and services.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660667

• 19 Feb 2026Conditional

  a redesigned and repositioned storey and a half style dwelling and associated detached garage from that approved under application 23/60365, opening of a new vehicular entrance to the site and wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site development works. All other aspects of the development to remain as previously approved under application 23/60365

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660164

• 24 Sept 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of new two storey style dwelling & domestic garage with access via existing entrance serving applicant’s family dwelling & farm, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: Revised redline boundary and revised site layout plan. Further revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: Change in redline boundary

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561085

• 16 Apr 2025Refused

  for a new dormer style dwelling & domestic garage, new recessed entrance, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560406

• 7 Nov 2023Conditional

  for a new single storey dwelling and detached single car garage, opening of a new vehicular entrance to the site and wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2360365

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 Ballysize.

Recorded monuments

• KD019-070 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett in 1991. Aerial photograph (GB91.EI.28) shows the cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD019-079 Field system
  Description

  Cropmark of a complex pattern of linear features suggestive of a pre-1700 field system visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Seán Sourke. Date of upload: 12 March 2019

• KD019-080 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Faint cropmark of small circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 10m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Seán Sourke. Date of upload: 12 March 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballysize, 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_2685 (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.

No address of the register names Ballysize with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Ballysize · Baile Saghais

Area

837,931 m² (83.79 ha, 207.06 acres)

Civil parish

Brideschurch, and its townlands

Barony

Clane

Electoral division

Donore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

860 people lived in 279 households in the Donore electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barrettstown, Castlekeely, Donore, Landenstown, Waterstown

Placenames

Ballysize 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.