Ballycoam

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycoam, from 33 m² to 108,854 m² (10.89 ha, 26.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballycoam 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.

• 26 Sept 2025Conditional

  for a new two storey 173.2m2 Log cabin style dwelling, new waste water treatment system plus all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560625

• 24 Jun 2025Conditional

  for development of an unroofed slatted tank, concrete apron and associated site works necessary to facilitate the proposed development

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560378

• 30 Oct 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460513

• 29 Jan 2021Conditional

  to construct a domestic garage to the side of my dwelling located

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2143

• 28 Aug 2020Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, sewerage treatment and percolation area, including all necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20568

• 30 Jan 2020Conditional

  for the development of a sports facility on lands to include: 1. Development of a main playing pitch and separate training pitch with associated netting. 2. Development of an all-weather synthetic playing pitch with incorporated ball wall and associated perimeter fencing. 3. Construction of a clubhouse to include dressing rooms, meeting room, kitchen, gymnasium and spectator toilets. 4. Installation of floodlighting to service all playing pitches. 5. Construction of a spectator viewing stand. 6. Construction of an equipment and machinery storage shed. 7. Construction of an entrance onto the public road with internal roadway to access facility. 8. Car & bus parking facilities. 9. Installation of a wastewater system, Water supply borehole, water discharge soakpits and all ancillary services. This application is for a 10 year permission.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2046

• 19 Oct 2017Conditional

  for retention of the development consisting of a commercial dog boarding kennels and cattery, road front signage, waste water treatment system and associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 17694

• 30 Jan 2017Conditional

  for development consisting of the demolition of the two storey dwelling house and to replace this with a new two storey dwelling house incorporating a ground floor " family/granny" dwelling unit, waste water treatment system and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 1743

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 Ballycoam.

Recorded monuments

• KK027-035 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  On a ridge, c. 1.8km SW of the confluence of the River Nore and the Kings River and c. 800m E of the village of Stonyford. Indicated as an irregular curvilinear enclosure on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map, with a field boundary running along the N-NNW perimeter of the enclosure. On the 1948 it is shown as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m), with the field boundary to the N-NNW kinking around it and another field boundary running S and E-W immediately outside the S and W quadrants of the enclosure. A D-shaped enclosure (KK027-096----) is located 15m to the E, another enclosure (KK027-098----) c. 250m to the ENE and a barrow (KK027-036----) c. 340m to the SE. The monument, which was levelled in the 1990s, was described locally as consisting of, ‘a large circular mound with a deep encircling ditch’ (Rassmann et al. 2019, 353). This description, with the lack of evidence for an outer bank, would suggest a ditch barrow classification. In 1852 a glass urn containing a cremation was reported to the Royal Irish Academy by a Mr. Perry, who stated that it had been, ‘found in a rath and protected by stones in a field of his near Stonyford, Co. Kilkenny’ (Bourke 1989, 56). A bronze disc mirror had been used as a lid for the urn and it was accompanied by a glass phial, also known as a lachrymatory or unguentarium (ibid. 56-7). They appear to have been within a stone-lined pit or cist. According to Bourke (1994, 164), the burial is, ‘typical of the Roman middle-class burial rite of the first and second centuries AD’, though the, ‘most likely date for the Stonyford burial is late first century’. Independent research by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil (2013, 12) and Aideen Ireland (2014-15, 41) led both of them to conclude that this burial (see KK027-095----) is most likely to have come from the barrow at Ballycoam, where it would have been a secondary insertion (Ó Drisceoil 2013, 17). The adjacent D-shaped enclosure has parallels with ‘banjo’ enclosures which have been identified through archaeological excavation in southern England and west Wales (Rassmann et al. 2019, 358). These have produced evidence of occupation, often in the form of internal roundhouses and storage pits, and have been dated to the Middle and Late Iron Age, c. 400 B.C. to A.D. 43 (ibid.). It was also noted that in Britain banjo enclosures are sometimes found in association with Iron Age barrow cemeteries (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

• KK027-095 Burial
  Description

  In 1852, a glass urn containing a cremation was reported to the Royal Irish Academy by a Mr. Perry, who stated that it had been, ‘found in a rath and protected by stones in a field of his near Stonyford, Co. Kilkenny’ (Bourke 1989, 56). A bronze disc mirror had been used as a lid for the urn and it was accompanied by a glass phial, also known as a lachrymatory or unguentarium (ibid. 56-7). They appear to have been within a stone-lined pit or cist. According to Bourke (1994, 164), the burial is, ‘typical of the Roman middle-class burial rite of the first and second centuries AD’, though the, ‘most likely date for the Stonyford burial is late first century’. Independent research by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil (2013, 12) and Aideen Ireland (2014-15, 41) led both of them to conclude that this burial is most likely to have come from a barrow at Ballycoam (KK027-035----). This barrow was levelled in the 1990s (Rassmann et al. 2019, 353).   Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

• KK027-096 Enclosure
  Description

  On flat ground below a ridge, c. 1.8km SW of the confluence of the River Nore and the Kings River and c. 800m E of the village of Stonyford. A barrow (KK027-035----), where the Roman Stonyford burial (KK027-095----) may have found, is located 15m to the W. Another enclosure (KK027-098----) lies c. 210m to the E and a barrow (KK027-036----) c. 320m to the SE. A roughly D-shaped enclosure (dims. 32m N-S; 30m E-W), identified as a result of a geophysical survey carried out in 2014 (Rassmann et al. 2019, 353-4; 358-60). The enclosure has two possible entrances, one in the NW which appears to lead to the adjacent barrow, and one in the NE which leads into a slightly curving passageway (L 15m; Wth c. 4m) formed by parallel ditches (ibid. 354). The survey also detected a ring-ditch (KK027-097----) slightly offset within the centre of the enclosure, as well as pit anomalies (ibid.).  The summary of the geophysical report discusses the links between this D-shaped enclosure and similarly shaped ‘banjo’ enclosures, with elaborate entrances, identified through archaeological excavation in southern England and west Wales (ibid. 358). These have produced evidence of occupation, often in the form of internal round houses and storage pits, and have been dated to the Middle and Late Iron Age, c. 400 B.C. to A.D. 43 (ibid.). It was also noted that in Britain banjo enclosures are sometimes found in association with Iron Age barrow cemeteries (ibid.).   Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

• KK027-097 Ring-ditch
  Description

  On flat ground below a ridge, c. 1.8km SW of the confluence of the River Nore and the Kings River and c. 800m E of the village of Stonyford. A barrow (KK027-035----), where the Roman Stonyford burial (KK027-095----) may have found, is located 15m to the W. Another enclosure (KK027-098----) lies c. 210m to the E and a barrow (KK027-036----) c. 320m to the SE. A circular enclosure/ring-ditch (diam. 7m), the fosse of which was identified within a D-shaped enclosure (KK027-096----) as a result of a geophysical survey carried out in 2014 (Rassmann et al. 2019, 353-4; 358-60).  The ring-ditch is slightly offset within the centre of the D-shaped enclosure. It has been interpreted as a possible round house (ibid. 354). The summary of the geophysical report discusses the links between this D-shaped enclosure and similarly shaped ‘banjo’ enclosures, with elaborate entrances, identified through archaeological excavation in southern England and west Wales (ibid. 358). These have produced evidence of occupation, often in the form of internal round houses and storage pits, and have been dated to the Middle and Late Iron Age, c. 400 B.C. to A.D. 43 (ibid.). It was also noted that in Britain banjo enclosures are sometimes found in association with Iron Age barrow cemeteries (ibid.).   Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballycoam, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballycoam.

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 Ballycoam with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Ballycoam · An Baile Cam

Area

415,563 m² (41.56 ha, 102.69 acres)

Civil parish

Ennisnag, and its townlands

Barony

Knocktopher

Electoral division

Stonyford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

721 people lived in 227 households in the Stonyford electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cotterellsbooly, Knocknabooly

Placenames

Ballycoam 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.