Ballyryan

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyryan, from 401 m² to 313,887 m² (31.39 ha, 77.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Ballyryan 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.

• 28 Feb 2024Refused

  A 10 Year Planning Permission for a solar farm with a total area of circa 192 hectares. The solar farm will consist of solar panels on ground mounted frames, 30 no. single storey electrical inverter/transformer stations, 4 no. single storey spare parts containers, 4 no. Ring Main Units, 8 no. weather stations, underground electrical ducting and cabling within the development site, private lands and within the L3051, L3052 and L3050 public roads to connect solar farm field parcels, security fencing, CCTV, access tracks, 2 no. stream deck crossings and 1 no. horizontal directional drill, temporary construction compounds, landscaping and all associated ancillary development and drainage works. Construction and operational access will be via 4 no. entrances from the L3051, L3052 and L3050. The operational lifespan of the solar farm will be 40 years and planning permission is requested for this duration. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460043

• 11 Jan 2024Refused

  to construct a single storey dwelling, single storey garage, new domestic entrance from an existing agricultural laneway, septic tank & percolation area, bored well and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2460005

• 20 Dec 2023N/a

  to construct a single storey dwelling, single storey garage, new domestic entrance from an existing agricultural laneway, septic tank & percolation area, bored well and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2360308

• 19 Jul 2021Conditional

  Permission to demolish an existing house ruins and construct a single storey dwelling, appropriate waste water treatment system, proposed bored well, new entrance, conversion / change of use of existing agricultural outhouse to a domestic storage shed and all ancillary site works and landscaping

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 21279

• 9 Mar 2020Conditional

  Permission for the construction of an Agricultural machinery shed, connection to services and all associated site works.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2086

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 Ballyryan.

Recorded monuments

• CW012-049 Moated site
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Rectangular area (90m NNW-SSE, 40m WSW-ENE) surrounded by broad fosse (Wth 9m). Southern half is also enclosed by banks on either side of fosse and traces of a bank cutting interior in two. Entrance in SW side near W corner. Leat at S corner. Second possible leat close to N corner.

• CW012-052 Earthwork
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Shown on 1839 'OS 6-inch' map as circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 30m). No visible surface traces.

• CW012-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 In low-lying area. Traces of curving E side of ringfort (est max. original diam. c. 45m).

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyryan, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballyryan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Ballyryan · Baile Uí Riain

Area

1,687,202 m² (168.72 ha, 416.92 acres)

Civil parish

Nurney, and its townlands

Barony

Idrone East

Electoral division

Nurney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

893 people lived in 294 households in the Nurney electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyloo, Ballyryan, Ballytarsna, Cloneen, Garryhundon, Nurney

Placenames

Ballyryan 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.