Bannagagole

127 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bannagagole, from 27 m² to 179,351 m² (17.94 ha, 44.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 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 Bannagagole 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.

• 27 Mar 2023Refused

  the demolition of existing disused buildings and the development of a dimension stone quarry with a projected lifetime of c. 14 years (12 – 13 years operational with an additional 1-year to allow for the implementation of a restoration plan) at this site of c. 9.34 hectares at Bannagagole, Old Leighlin, Co. Carlow. The proposed quarry void (c. 2.44 ha) will be extracted to a depth of 2 no. benches of c. 10m from top of bedrock, with a final floor level of c. 56.5m AOD with a proposed rate of rock extraction of c.30,000 cubic metres (84,000 tonnes) per annum. A proposed working area of c. 1.2 hectares to the south of the extraction zone will provide for the crushing / processing of unusable stone and temporary storage of dimensional stone and will include machinery storage shed (c. 115m²), staff welfare (c. 45.7 m²) , wastewater holding tank, weighbridge & Office (c. 14m²) and staff car parking area. The proposed development will also include for earthen screening berms to a height of c. 3 m, a wheelwash facility; Installation of surface water attenuation and settlement ponds for the treatment of suspended solids in the floor of the quarry void; soil storage area with an average storage depth of c. 4 m and all other site development works above and below ground including the restoration of the final quarry void (extractive area). Access to the proposed development will be facilitated by a HGV site entrance from the L3036 at the eastern boundary of the proposed site. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been submitted

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2360042

• 14 Jul 2022Conditional

  the installation of a Roof Mounted Solar PV Panel Array consisting of up to 2200m2 of solar panels with a peak capacity of up to 427.5Kwp mounted to the roofs of two industrial buildings via steel frames, including routing cable, trenching and backfilling of cables and all associated works.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 22238

• 11 Aug 2020Conditional

  for an extension to an existing domestic shed and all ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 20277

• 14 Feb 2019Conditional

  for the provision of one new dwelling house with detached domestic garage, new vehicular access from public road, domestic waste water treatment system & polishing filter, private well and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 1949

• 29 Jan 2019N/a

  the provision of one new dwelling house with detached domestic garage, new vehicular access from public road, domestic waste water treatment system & polishing filter, private well and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 1920

• 19 Nov 2018Conditional

  for the erection of a 32 tonne gantry crane and the relocation of an existing 25 tonne gantry crane with all associated site development works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 18450

• 4 May 2017Conditional

  Permission to erect milking parlour with collection area, slatted tank, dairy, powerhouse, race, crush, silo and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 17140

• 10 Apr 2017N/a

  Permission to erect milking parlour with collection area, slatted tank, dairy, powerhouse, race, crush, silo and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 17114

• 5 Apr 2017Conditional

  Permission to erect cubicle shed with slatted underground tanks and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 17103

• 6 Mar 2017Conditional

  Continuance of use of the existing permitted quarry site and existing ancillary facilities, regularised by the previous grant of substitute consent (PL01.SU0024); Lateral extension of the existing quarry void from the existing area of c.3.4 hectares(ha.)increasing to total extraction area of c.4.5 ha; Deepening of the existing quarry void from the existing floor level at c.42-45m AOD to a final floor depth of c.21m AOD; Buffer zone of c.20m between the eastern extraction boundary and the public road, with construction of an earthen screening berm (1.5m high) along the eastern extraction boundary; Relocation of the the employee car parking spaces (39no.) ; demolation of the existing processing factory to allow for the lateral quarry extension ; Improvements to the existing dedicated HGV site entrance to meet the necessary site line requirements Provision of a wheelwash facility ; Installation of surface water attenuation and settlement ponds for the treatment of suspended solids in the floor of the quarry; Existing rate of rock extraction to remain at c.30000 cubic metres per year.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 1764

• 1 Mar 2017N/a

  Permission to erect cubicle shed with slatted underground tanks and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 1760

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 Bannagagole.

Recorded monuments

• CW015-002 Quarry
  Description

  Listed in the RMP (1995) as 'Potential site - map' based on depiction on the 1908 ed. of OS 6-inch map. Area densely overgrown when inspected in 1987 by ASI. Shown as and marked 'Quarry (Disused)' on the 25 inch OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

• CW015-032 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Excavated in advance of construction of the N9/N10 Kilcullen-Waterford Road (Excavation Licence number E3844). A spread of burnt mound material was uncovered under which lay three troughs, four pits and a number of post-holes. (Phelan S. 2010, 19) Reference: Phelan S. (2010) 'AR136, Bannagagole Burnt-mound activity' in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 19-20 (92). Bray. Wordwell Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 10 November 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Bannagagole, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2363 (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 Bannagagole with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Bannagagole · Bán an Dá Ghabhal

Area

2,125,147 m² (212.51 ha, 525.14 acres)

Civil parish

Oldleighlin, and its townlands

Barony

Idrone West

Electoral division

Oldleighlin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

606 people lived in 199 households in the Oldleighlin electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baunleath, Closutton, Lackan, Moanduff, Moanmore, Oldleighlin, Tomnasock

Placenames

Bannagagole 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.