Ballygowney

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygowney, from 552 m² to 183,637 m² (18.36 ha, 45.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Ballygowney 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.

• 16 Sept 2021Conditional

  to erect a new single storey private house, to form a new entrance to the public road, to provide new treatment plant and percolation area together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21776

• 30 Dec 2020Conditional

  to erect a dairy cubicle house including slatted slurry storage tanks & ancillary concrete works on its lands

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20935

• 24 Jul 2020Conditional

  to erect a silage pit and apron & ancillary concrete works on our lands

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20476

• 29 Nov 2017Conditional

  to make an alteration to planning permission Ref 11/138 (extended by the ext. of duration ref 16/272). The proposed alteration is to relocate and redesign the proposed one and a half storey dwellinghouse and garage and all associate site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17790

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 Ballygowney.

Recorded monuments

• KK009-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the W-facing slope of a valley, just above the boggy valley floor, in rough pasture. There are good views in all directions. A roughly circular area (diam. 30m) defined by an earthen bank, best preserved at W (Wth 2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1m), only visible as slight terrace at E (ext. H 0.3m). Bisected by a modern field boundary running NE-SW across the interior. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 29 January 2018

• KK009-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In flat grassland on a ridge between to valleys. There are good views in all directions. A circular area (diam. 39m) enclosed by low, wide bank (Wth 4m; int. H c. 0.6m; ext. H c. 1.6m) with steep stoney faces and external fosse (Wth 2-2.5m; D 0.5-0.6m). There are several hollows in the interior where there is a concentration of reeds growing. There is an entrance (Wth 4m) at the ESE which may be original and subsequently widened. There is a quarry immediately outside to the NE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 29 January 2018

• KK009-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a fairly steep W-facing slope on the side of a valley. A circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by low earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.8m) and an external fosse (Wth c. 4m; D 0.6m). The fosse is less evident in the S and W sectors. The bank and fosse have been damaged by a field boundary running NW-SE along the perimeter in the E quadrant. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 30 January 2018

• KK009-020001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the crest of a hill in rolling grassland. There are good views N and S along the ridge and across the valleys to the SE and NW. A roughly oval raised platform (diam. 35m E-W, 32m N-S; H c. 1.5-1.8m) enclosed by fosse (Wth 4m; D c. 0.3m) which survives best at S but is barely traceable on the other side. The interior is slightly dished (D c. 0.2-0.3m) and is evidently fairly wet in the winter months, with reeds growing in interior. There is an entrance (Wth c. 4m) in the SSE which has probably been widened. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 31 January 2018

• KK009-021 Moated site
  Description

  On a S-facing slope of valley, just below the crest of a flat hilltop, in rolling grassland. There are good views in all directions. A roughly square area (dims. 44m N-S; 40m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Wth at crest 2m; overall Wth 6m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 3m) and external fosse (Wth 2m; D 1.8m), though this only survives where it is incorporated in a field boundary which runs along the N length and NW angle of the moated site. The E, S and W sides were levelled in 1987, with only traces of a wet fosse, visible at ground level. Before being levelled it was visited by Barry (1977, 186) who describes it as a, 'platform raised 1m. Int. banks 2.8m wide and 1.25m high. Dry moat 2.50m wide', he also mentions that it was planted with larch trees '40 years ago', i.e. the 1930s. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 31 January 2018

• KK009-127 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 33m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) on Digitalglobe satellite imagery (viewed 20 January 2021). There is a ringfort (KK009-020001-) c. 350m to the NW and a moated site (KK009-021----) c. 150m to the SSW. See attached satellite images (Digitalglobe, viewed 20 January 2021) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 1 February 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballygowney, about 1 in 20 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

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

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

Name

Ballygowney · Baile Uí Ghamhna

Area

3,709,012 m² (370.9 ha, 916.52 acres)

Civil parish

Coolcashin, and its townlands

Barony

Galmoy

Electoral division

Lisdowney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

287 people lived in 97 households in the Lisdowney electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylehaun, Ballyring Upper, Coolcashin, Garrydague, Gorteennahilla (Co. Laois), Gorteennamuck, Lisdowney, Tinnaslatty

Placenames

Ballygowney 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.