Ballinvarry English
Ballinvarry English is a townland in the civil parish of The Rower, barony of Ida, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is Baile an Bharraigh Gallda.
Parcel 4945475
- Area
- 3,891 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 337 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
- Ballinvarry English
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 moderately high, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 182.1 ha
- 450 acres
- Land parcels
- 56
- registered freehold, median 3,744 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinvarry English, from 33 m² to 304,750 m² (30.48 ha, 75.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Ballinvarry English 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 Jan 2026Unconditional
of 21/262
Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 268
4 Jun 2024Conditional
retention of extension to side of the existing dwelling and all associated site works
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2460258
24 May 2022N/a
for the erection of a single storey dwelling house, new entrance and the installation of a treatment plant and polishing filter to serve same together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22334
4 Feb 2022Conditional
to demolish the existing single storey derelict outhouse 23sqm and to erect a 3 bedroom single storey dwelling house with new entrance, sewage treatment system with partially raised soil polishing filter and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2264
6 Apr 2021Conditional
to erect a 4 bedroom dwelling house with car garage, new entrance, sewage treatment system with partially raised soil polishing filter and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21262
5 Feb 2021N/a
to erect a 4 bedroom dwelling house with new entrance, sewage treatment system with partially raised soil polishing filter and associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2159
16 Jul 2018Conditional
for the erection of a fully serviced dwellinghouse at
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18463
12 Oct 2017N/a
retention permission of extension to the side of the existing dwelling and all associated site works
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 17675
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 Ballinvarry English.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinvarry English.
Architectural heritage
- Ballinvarry Bridge, bridge, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch rubble stone road bridge over stream, c.1825. Random rubble stone walls with dressed rubble stone coping to parapets. Single round arch with dressed rubble stone voussoirs, and rubble stone soffits. Sited spanning tributary of River Barrow with rubble limestone retaining walls to stream.
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 Ballinvarry English, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinvarry English.
- 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 Ballinvarry English with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinvarry English · Baile an Bharraigh Gallda
- Area
- 1,820,552 m² (182.06 ha, 449.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- The Rower, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ida
- Electoral division
- Coolhill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 280 people lived in 93 households in the Coolhill electoral division. 98% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvarry, Ballinvarry Irish, Brandonhill, Clogaralt, Coolrainy, Cullentragh
- Placenames
- Ballinvarry English 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.