Balleighteragh East
Balleighteragh East is a townland in the civil parish of Kilgobnet, barony of Decies Without Drum, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is An Baile Íochtarach Thoir.
Parcel 1556911
- Area
- 64,542 m² (6.45 ha, 15.95 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 244 m².
- 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
- Balleighteragh East
Planning applications on this parcel
9 Mar 2022Conditional
construct a dormer style dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, splayed entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 22184
28 Apr 2021Refused
outline planning permission to construct a dormer style dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, splayed entrance and all ancillary site works at
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 21349
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1886 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 56.1 ha
- 139 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 2,515 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balleighteragh East, from 27 m² to 478,098 m² (47.81 ha, 118.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Balleighteragh East 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
19 Feb 2026Conditional
the construction of a new part one and a half storey and part single-storey dwelling house, including domestic garage, along with new entrance driveway, septic tank with percolation area, connection to public water supply and all associated site works & drainage
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2660103
9 Mar 2022Conditional
construct a dormer style dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, splayed entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 22184
28 Apr 2021Refused
outline planning permission to construct a dormer style dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, splayed entrance and all ancillary site works at
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 21349
5 Feb 2019Conditional
alterations to boundaries of existing dwelling house site
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 1956
11 May 2018Conditional
to (1) Relocate further to the south and lower floor level of both dwelling house and garage as originally granted for under 17/517 (2) Slightly alter western site boundary line from that originally granted for under 17/517
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 18329
14 Jul 2017Conditional
a dwelling house, garage, new entrance, wastewater treatment system, water borewell and all other ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 17517
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 Balleighteragh East.
Recorded monuments
- WA031-012 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure on the 1840 (ext. diam. c. 35m) and 1927 (ext. diam. c. 45m) eds. of the OS 6-9nch map. Situated in pasture at the crest of the S-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge and described locally as a 'lios' removed prior to 1970. It is not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 26th July, 2010.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1800, retaining early fenestration. Hipped roof with reed thatch having rope work to ridge, and red brick Running bond squat chimney stack. Limewashed lime rendered walls over random rubble stone construction with slight batter. Square-headed window openings with stone sills. 4/4 and 6/6 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with timber boarded half-door. Set in own grounds perpendicular to road with forecourt having random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site with limewashed lime rendered rubble stone piers having wrought iron double gates, and side (north-east) elevation fronting on to road. (ii) Detached single-bay single-storey gable-fronted outbuilding, c.1925, to south-east. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods on rendered squared rubble stone eaves. Limewashed lime rendered walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed door opening with timber boarded door.
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 Balleighteragh East, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1886 (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 Balleighteragh East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Balleighteragh East · An Baile Íochtarach Thoir
- Area
- 560,578 m² (56.06 ha, 138.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgobnet, and its townlands
- Barony
- Decies Without Drum
- Electoral division
- Bohadoon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 326 people lived in 110 households in the Bohadoon electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balleighteragh West, Ballycoe, Kilnafrehan East, Kilnafrehan Middle, Lacken, Monarud
- Placenames
- Balleighteragh East 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.