Ballymack (Desart)

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymack (Desart), from 18 m² to 336,123 m² (33.61 ha, 83.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Ballymack (Desart) 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.

• 22 Apr 2026Conditional

  for the Indefinite retention of a detached building consisting of a Garage with a games room over an open sided drying area behind and a shed to the rear

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2660236

• 14 Aug 2025Conditional

  to construct a slatted underground slurry tank, and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560520

• 9 May 2025N/a

  to construct a slatted underground slurry store 9.75m wide by 18.9m long and 2.4m deep with a cubic capacity of 442.26m3

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2537

• 18 Oct 2022Conditional

  for a material change of use for three areas of land (Area 'B' 1.37 hectares, Area 'C' 0.30 hectares and Area 'D' 0.52 hectares) from agricultural to external yard for storage, and planning permission is sought for a material change of use of an existing area of land, Area 'E' 1.07 hectares from agricultural to external yard for storage and all associated site developments works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 22680

• 10 Nov 2021N/a

  for a new vehicle entrance to an existing dwelling house and farm to replace an existing vehicle entrance and all associated site works on lands at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21927

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 Ballymack (Desart).

Recorded monuments

• KK023-065 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Located c. 100m W of a NNW-SSE channelized stream. Identified as a, 'spread of charcoal and burnt stones, probably part of a fulacht fiadh' during the construction of the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline (Sleeman 1983, 365-6). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 23 August 2021

• KK023-068 Enclosure
  Description

  Indicated on the 1947 revision OS 6-inch map as a roughly rectangular area (dims. c. 26m NE-SW; c. 22m NW-SE), outlined by dashed line suggesting it was unenclosed, running NE from a NW-SE field boundary. It was also identified as an enclosure on an aerial photograph (Bord Gáis). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 23 August 2021

• KK023-163 Enclosure
  Description

  A roughly circular enclosure (dims. c. 34m N-S; c. 40m E-W) identified as a cropmark on Bing photography (Imagery captured on 06 Nov 2011; http://binged.it/1cRdNSc) by Simon Dowling. The monument is enclosed by a larger oval-shaped cropmark (dims. c. 58m N-S; c. 92m E-W), the northern sector of which appears to have been slightly truncated by a field boundary running E-W. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 13 January 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymack (Desart).

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 Ballymack (Desart), 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballymack (Desart).

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 Ballymack (Desart) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Ballymack (Desart) · Baile Mhic Dháith (Desart)

Area

1,519,522 m² (151.95 ha, 375.48 acres)

Civil parish

Burnchurch, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelogher

Electoral division

Burnchurch, the unit of the census

Census 2022

617 people lived in 190 households in the Burnchurch electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymack (Flood), Booly, Farmley, Newtown (Baker), Paddock, Tullamaine (Ashbrook)

Placenames

Ballymack (Desart) 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.