Blackhall

95 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackhall, from 45 m² to 143,961 m² (14.4 ha, 35.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Blackhall 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.

• 14 Oct 2025Conditional

  permission to construct an extension to dwelling house with necessary alterations and renovations to same dwelling. Full planning permission to demolish previously built sunroom and domestic shed to facilitate the proposed extension. Full planning permission to install a new wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561170

• 21 May 2024Conditional

  for a) proposed new single story dwelling, b) domestic garage, c) new double recessed vehicle entrance, d) closing up of existing agricultural entrance, e) treatment system & percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460442

• 7 Sept 2023Conditional

  the renovation and extension of the dwelling house to include internal reconfigurations and addition of first floor accommodation associated increase of ridge height and addition of dormer roof extension to the rear and rooflights to the front elevation

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23887

• 4 Aug 2023N/a

  Will consist of the renovation and extension of the dwelling house to include internal reconfigurations and addition of first floor accommodation associated increase of ridge height and addition of dormer roof extension to the rear and rooflights to the front elevation

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23832

• 23 Dec 2020Refused

  Construction of a detached one and half storey dormer bungalow, single storey domestic garage, recessed entrance, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201609

• 16 Oct 2020Refused

  a bungalow, wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter, recessed residential entrance and all ancillary site development works,

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201211

• 5 Sept 2019Conditional

  for single storey side extension (65sqm) to existing single storey cottage (86sqm) and permission for the replacement of the existing septic tank with new septic tank and percolation area

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 19998

• 23 Jul 2019Conditional

  demolition of existing side conservatory with permission to construct a replacement single storey side extension, permission to nappe plaster the external façade of existing house and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 19827

• 22 May 2018Conditional

  a change of house type from previously permitted development (planning reference 16/1326)

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18594

• 18 Aug 2017Refused

  construction of domestic house, insulation of secondary effluent treatment system together with all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 17933

• 20 Jul 2017Conditional

  the construction of a detached single storey house containing 134.7 sq. metres, a detached garage of 35 sq. metres, alteration of existing vehicular access (which leads to an adjacent dwelling) to accommodate a new entrance, sewage treatment system and percolation area, public water supply connection, along with all associated site works, including landscaping. This site was sterilised pursuant to condition No. 3 of permission Reg. 94/575 and the application seeks to lift this restriction, so as to allow for the proposed development to proceed

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17843

• 16 Feb 2017Conditional

  a dormer style dwelling, domestic garage and associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of change of house type from dormer style to single storey and alterations to site boundary

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17156

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 Blackhall.

Recorded monuments

• KD032-019 Castle - tower house
  Description

  At the E foot of Bull Hill (OD 573 feet) in mixed tillage and pastureland. A small stream rises c. 200m to W and flows E to the N of this Eustace castle (Tickell 1960, 374) which is now incorporated into a farmyard associated with the 19th-century Blackhall House c. 20m to its S. The E half of the tower house fell prior to 2004 and the following report is based on an inspection undertaken in 2001. A poorly preserved, four-storied, rectangular structure (dims. L 12.4m N-S; surviving Wth 8.2m E-W) with a robbed-out vault (orientated N-S) over the ground-floor, comprising the W wall and adjacent portions of the N and S walls. The very thick walls (max. T 3.3m), built of roughly coursed, limestone rubble with a gentle base-batter, accommodate intra-mural passages, stairs and chambers. A later doorway (on the site of the original entrance?) in the S wall gives to a narrow (Wth 1.2m), intra-mural passage (orientated E-W), with vaulted ceiling reinforced with concrete lintels, where off-line to the W, in the N wall of the passage, a second, pointed-arched doorway (subsequently blocked-up for use as an alcove; Wth 1.1m) gave to the main ground-floor chamber where a later doorway (Wth 1.15m), centrally placed in the W wall, cuts a narrow, intra-mural passage (orientated N-S; Wth 1.25m), leaving a small, unlit, lintel-roofed chamber (int. dims. L 1.75m N-S; Wth 1.25m) to the N of the doorway and a narrow but deep cupboard to the S, and gives access to a later, single-storied building to W. The W side of a fireplace is visible at the surviving E end of the N wall, with traces of its partially brick-lined flue rising to third-floor level. A spiral stairs in the SW angle (reached via a short flight of straight-stairs towards the W end of the intra-mural passage in the S wall) is lit by loops at inter-floor levels, and gives access (via pointed-arched doorways) to the main floors above and also to a secondary, intra-mural chamber in the S wall. At first-floor level a doorway leads E from the stairs into a double-height, vaulted-ceilinged, intra-mural chamber in the S wall. Access to its upper area, at second-floor level, was either via an internal wooden stairs or from the main chamber to the N. The main chamber has a blocked-up window in a large, centrally placed embrasure in the W wall flanked by cupboards to N and S. Beam-slot holes at the N and S ends of the wall took wall-plates carried on opposing corbels, two of which survive on the N and S walls marking second-floor level where the main chamber has a similar blocked window in a centrally placed embrasure in the W wall. A plain doorway in the N return of the embrasure gives to small, intra-mural chamber, lit by a loop in the W wall. There is a cupboard to S. A dressed jambstone in the N wall marks a doorway into a now destroyed intra-mural chamber. At third-floor level there are traces of an intra-mural chamber in the S wall which was accessed from the main chamber to the N which has a plain cut-stone fireplace in the W wall, flanked by a robbed-out, twin-light, ogee-headed window to N and a cupboard to S. Modern crenelations top the walls. In 1987 the four walls were standing and at ground-floor level there was a modern entrance in the E wall and the fireplace in the N wall contained a large wooden lintel. At first-floor level a lintelled-doorway in the NE angle gave to an intra-mural chamber and there was a round-headed window in the E wall. At second-floor level there was a large blocked-up, cut stone fireplace and round-headed window in the E wall. A Sheela-na-gig (KD032-019001-; Guest 1936, 113 for illustration) was formerly beside the entrance. It was rescued from the rubble after the section of the tower-house collapsed and has been set in a niche in the interior of the N wall. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Updated by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 5 December 2014

• KD032-019001 Sheela-na-gig
  Description

  This sheela-na-gig formerly was located to the right hand side of the doorway of the tower house (KD032-019----). The E section of the tower house collapsed in a storm prior to 2004. The carving was rescued from the rubble and set in a niche in the interior of the N wall. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Updated by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 5 December 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Blackhall, 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 Blackhall.

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.

• Blackhall, Calverstown6 sales

Name

Blackhall · An Halla Dubh

Area

1,612,656 m² (161.27 ha, 398.5 acres)

Civil parish

Davidstown, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban East

Electoral division

Ballyshannon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,813 people lived in 577 households in the Ballyshannon electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybarney, Bullhill, Calverstown Demesne, Calverstown Little, Davidstown, Lipstown

Placenames

Blackhall 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.