Ballynakill

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynakill, from 727 m² to 286,329 m² (28.63 ha, 70.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Ballynakill 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.

• 22 Oct 2019Conditional

  to construct a one and half storey dwelling, new entrance and driveway, bored well, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 19425

• 23 May 2019Conditional

  to construct a single storey extension to the rear of existing single storey dwelling, demolition of existing single storey extension & outbuildings to the rear of existing single storey dwelling, relocation of existing entrance, closing up of existing secondary entrance on site, decommissioning of existing septic tank & percolation area & permission for new septic tank & percolation area, use of existing well and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 19208

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 Ballynakill.

Recorded monuments

• CW009-024 Enclosure
  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 Marked 'Site of Rath' and depicted as large slightly oval enclosure on 1839 'OS 6-inch' map (max. diam. c. 70m). Very small portion of bank at NE is preserved in field boundary at SW; irregularity in field boundary probably reflects former presence of bank. No other visible surface traces.

• CW009-025 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 Circular area (diam. 26m) surrounded by low earthen bank. No visible trace of entrance, fosse, or second outer bank shown on 1908 'OS 6-inch' map. Bank has been much defaced and is now augmented by large boulders.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballynakill, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballynakill · Baile na Coille

Area

1,992,373 m² (199.24 ha, 492.33 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmore, and its townlands

Barony

Rathvilly

Electoral division

Clonmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

548 people lived in 199 households in the Clonmore electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghaclay, Ballyduff, Ballyshane, Blackhill, Coolalaw, Crecrin, Knockballystine, Raheen

Placenames

Ballynakill 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.