Ballysallagh
Ballysallagh is a townland in the civil parish of Kinsalebeg, barony of Decies Within Drum, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is An Baile Salach.
Parcel 1560125
- Area
- 4,495 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 147 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
- Ballysallagh
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
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_1728 (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
- 146.5 ha
- 362 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 4,662 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballysallagh, from 510 m² to 455,428 m² (45.54 ha, 112.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballysallagh 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
28 Sept 2026N/a
for the construction of a new single storey house, a waste water treatment system, a bored well and an entrance along with all associated site works.
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2660749
24 Mar 2025Conditional
the decommissioning of an existing slurry store and replacement with a covered over ground slurry tank
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2560181
12 Mar 2024Conditional
for incomplete works as constructed consisting of a single storey extension to rear of dwelling and full PLANNING PERMISSION to complete said extension and auxiliary site services
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2453
22 Feb 2024N/a
to retain indefinitely and complete single-storey extension to rear and side of existing dwelling and auxiliary site services
Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2439
28 Jul 2021Conditional
the construction of a dwelling, wastewater treatment system, use of existing entrance to access both dwelling and farm and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 21733
24 Feb 2020Conditional
EXTENSION OF DURATION OF 14/600267 for the upgrade of the wastewater treatment system and percolation area as granted under 09/355 to ensure compliance with the EPA Code of Practice and all ancillary site works
Extension of duration · Waterford City and County Council, 20109
12 Oct 2017Conditional
to retain indefinitely as built sunroom onto side of existing dwelling, 4 no. velux rooflights on rear roof slope of dwelling, extension to rear of existing garage consisting of gym and green house onto side of garage
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 17727
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 Ballysallagh.
Recorded monuments
- WA040-001001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on the E side of the summit of a broad hill. Described (NMI file) as a roughly circular area (ext. diam. c. 30m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; H c. 1-1.5m), with an entrance at SE but with no visible fosse. A souterrain (WA040-001002-) was discovered when the rath was removed in 1954. It is not visible at ground level when planted with a cereal crop. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 17 October 2011
- WA040-001002 Souterrain
Description
Discovered during the removal of ringfort 558 in 1954, beneath the bank at W. Comprised a rectangular chamber (dims. 2.9m x 1m; H 1.35m) with a slab-roof, without corbelling, and a creep at SE corner. The floor was excavated by E.M. Fahy of CPM who recovered the remains of an animal, possibly pig, and a flint knife. (NMI file) 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: 23 December 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballysallagh.
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 Ballysallagh, 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 Ballysallagh.
- 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 Ballysallagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballysallagh · An Baile Salach
- Area
- 1,465,366 m² (146.54 ha, 362.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kinsalebeg, and its townlands
- Barony
- Decies Within Drum
- Electoral division
- Kinsalebeg, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 616 people lived in 229 households in the Kinsalebeg electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clashanahy, Glebe, Monatray East, Mortgage, Prospecthall, Springfield Upper
- Placenames
- Ballysallagh 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.