Ballygally

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygally, from 2,839 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres) to 561,732 m² (56.17 ha, 138.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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 Ballygally 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.

• 21 Jul 2025Conditional

  of a rear elevation extension to dwelling house

  Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2560500

• 9 Mar 2020Conditional

  to renovate and extend existing cottage in single storey, split level and part two storey design, remove existing outbuilding and construct storage shed with loft storage. Planning Permission is also required to upgrade existing septic tank system in compliance with EPA code of practice and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 20149

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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
• Special Protection Area: Blackwater Callows SPA 004094
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackwater River Callows 000073

Recorded monuments

• WA020-013 House - 17th century
  Description

  Situated on relatively high ground overlooking the floodplain of the W-E River Blackwater c. 400m to the N. Ballygally was owned by Leonard Knoyle or Knowles in 1629 (R. 1901, 128), but it is not known if he built a house. Ballygally House is a three-bay two storey over basement house of c. 1800 with a return at N. R., M. G. (1901) Notes and Querries - Ballygally House, Co. Waterford. JCHAS, vol. 7, 128. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 February 2011

Architectural heritage

• Ballygally House, country house, 1800–1814 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement country house, extant 1814, on a T-shaped plan with two-bay two-storey side elevations; single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return on a segmental bowed plan. Vacant, 1851. Leased, 1901; 1911. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on half-conical slate roof (north), clay ridge tiles, central chimney stack on axis with ridge, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging timber boarded eaves having paired timber consoles. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered coursed rubble stone walls on lichen-spotted cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on limestone ashlar plinth; rendered, ruled and lined surface finish (north) with concealed cut- or hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of four cut-limestone steps, cut-limestone doorcase with panelled pilasters supporting stepped cornice on fluted scroll consoles, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled double doors having sidelights below fanlight. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing nine-over-nine timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with lichen-spotted cut-limestone sill course, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (north) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds including limestone ashlar voussoirs framing nine-over-nine (ground floor) or six-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, Corinthian columnar screen framing carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door, and fan vaulted ceiling on egg-and-dart-detailed plasterwork cornice on swag-detailed "triglyph" frieze centred on "Acanthus"-detailed plasterwork ceiling rose in "Greek Key"-detailed frame; bow-ended double-height staircase hall (north) retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, cantilevered staircase with wrought iron balusters supporting carved timber banister, carved timber surround to window opening to half-landing framing timber panelled reveals or shutters, carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors, and vaulted ceiling on decorative plasterwork cornice centred on "Acanthus"-detailed plasterwork ceiling rose; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds.

• Ballygally House, gate lodge, 1800–1841 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gable-fronted gate lodge, extant 1841, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods surviving on exposed timber rafters. Coursed stone walls retaining sections of lime rendered surface finish with part creeper- or ivy-covered limestone ashlar piers to corners. Square-headed central door opening in square-headed recess with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window openings with sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber casement windows having lattice glazing bars. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Ballygally House.

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 Ballygally, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1528 (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 Ballygally with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Ballygally · Baile na gCaladh

Area

619,092 m² (61.91 ha, 152.98 acres)

Civil parish

Lismore and Mocollop, and its townlands

Barony

Coshmore and Coshbride

Electoral division

Castlerichard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

494 people lived in 178 households in the Castlerichard electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aglish, Ballygally East, Ballygally West, Garra East, Garra West, Garrycloyne, Knockaun

Placenames

Ballygally 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.