Ballyfeanan or Ballywhinnin
Ballyfeanan or Ballywhinnin is a townland in the civil parish of Clonygoose, barony of St. Mullin's Lower, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is Baile Faoininn.
Parcel 794759
- Area
- 3,428 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 300 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballyfeanan or Ballywhinnin
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 107 ha
- 264 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 5,003 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfeanan or Ballywhinnin, from 300 m² to 300,816 m² (30.08 ha, 74.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyfeanan or Ballywhinnin 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
6 Jun 2025Conditional
to remove the existing steel shed and permission to construct new portal frame steel shed in its place and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2560154
23 May 2025N/a
remove the existing steel shed and permission to construct new portal frame steel shed in its place and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560139
20 Dec 2024Conditional
a dwelling house, entrance, percolation area, agricultural shed and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460428
29 Nov 2018Conditional
for 1) to construct a new single storey extension to the rear of dwelling together with general landscaping and all associated site works and 2) permission for retention of a detached single storey studio/home office building also to the rear of dwelling
Retention, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 18467
14 Nov 2018N/a
to 1) construct a new single storey extension to the rear of dwelling together with general landscaping and all associated site works and 2) permission for retention of a detached single storey studio/home office building also to the rear of dwelling
Retention · Carlow County Council, 18446
5 Mar 2018Conditional
Permission for the erection of a dwelling house with treatment system and soil polishing filter and relocating the treatment system and soil polishing filter for the adjoining dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 1869
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyfeanan or Ballywhinnin.
Recorded monuments
- CW019-057 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 Shown on 1908 'OS 6-inch' map as enclosure defined by bank shown by hachures. Marked 'Site of' on 'OS 25-inch' map. Visible as cropmark on aerial photograph (GSI S 278) (est max. diam. c. 30m).
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyfeanan or Ballywhinnin.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyfeanan or Ballywhinnin, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyfeanan or Ballywhinnin.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyfeanan or Ballywhinnin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyfeanan or Ballywhinnin · Baile Faoininn
- Area
- 1,069,713 m² (106.97 ha, 264.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonygoose, and its townlands
- Barony
- St. Mullin's Lower
- Electoral division
- Ballyellin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 451 people lived in 158 households in the Ballyellin electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyfeanan or Ballywhinnin, Borris, Kilcloney, Kilcumney
- Placenames
- Ballyfeanan or Ballywhinnin 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.