Ballygorteen

116 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygorteen, from 51 m² to 259,890 m² (25.99 ha, 64.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 47 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 Ballygorteen 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.

• 13 Dec 2024Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, sewage treatment system and percolation area, including all necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460634

• 19 Sept 2024Refused

  of Planning Permission Reference P23 60431

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 24117

• 2 Aug 2024Conditional

  to construct a storey and a half style dwelling house, single storey garage, install new wastewater treatment system, new site entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460373

• 29 Sept 2023Conditional

  for a change of house design to that granted under planning application P20/268, permission to include a detached garage, with sewage system and percolation area as per the original planning permission, including all necessary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2360431

• 26 Aug 2022Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, private bore well together with all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22559

• 10 Feb 2022Conditional

  for the construction of 1 No Dwelling house with Domestic Waste Water Treatment System (DWWTS), bore well, associated entrance, and all ancillary services and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2275

• 5 Jan 2022Conditional

  to retain existing extension to the side of existing dwelling house, attic conversion , garage, store and all associated site development works at

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 223

• 1 Jul 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey dwelling, detached garage, wastewater treatment system, bored well, splaed entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21562

• 6 Apr 2021Conditional

  for a new single storey dwelling, waste water treatment system, new site entrance, plus all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21268

• 1 May 2020Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling, septic tank and all site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20268

• 7 Aug 2019Conditional

  is sought for alterations to the previously granted planning permission P.97/591 to include for the following: (1) To retain the existing first floor attic conversion, including roof windows to the front and rear of the existing dwelling house. (2) To retain as constructed an existing storage shed. (3) Elevational and internal modifications. (4) All associated site development works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 19555

• 28 Aug 2018Conditional

  for the erection of a dwelling house and domestic garage / store with treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works, at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18567

• 9 May 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a forestry road and a bellmouth entrance adjoining the public road (and ancillary works), to facilitate occasional access to an existing forestry plantation, at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18296

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 Ballygorteen.

Recorded monuments

• KK015-047 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Listed in the RMP (1996) as Ballygorteen linear feature. On the E edge of a flat narrow ridge between two N-S valleys with good views in all directions. Known locally as the site of a ‘rath’. Visible on OS Ortho 2005 image as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 30m). Monument not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 April 2017

• KK015-048 Enclosure
  Description

  On the E edge of a flat narrow ridge between two N-S valleys with good views in all directions. Visible only on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular wooded feature (diam. c. 20m). A small semicircular enclosure (c. 18m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by a low stony bank (int. H 0.3m; ext H. 0.15m) W of largely demolished field wall. Some small-scale quarrying and dumping has been carried out within the enclosure. Revised by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 21 January 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballygorteen, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballygorteen · Buaile an Ghoirtín

Area

3,948,798 m² (394.88 ha, 975.77 acres)

Civil parish

Shankill, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Tiscoffin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

519 people lived in 164 households in the Tiscoffin electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagar (Co. Carlow), Ballyvalden, Baunreagh (Co. Carlow), Baurnafea, Castlewarren, Coolcuttia, Coorleagh

Placenames

Ballygorteen 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.