Ballynaboley

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynaboley, from 276 m² to 195,736 m² (19.57 ha, 48.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

• P1Agriculture
  Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Leighlinbridge Small Town Plan, Carlow · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space and Amenity (Open space, park)
  Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Leighlinbridge Small Town Plan, Carlow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 26 May 2025N/a

  to construct an agricultural entrance to agricultural field, all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560140

• 25 Oct 2017Conditional

  The construction of 21m high telecommunications monopole support structure, carrying antennas and transmission dish with associated equipment units, security fencing & access track.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 17309

• 12 Jan 2017N/a

  Planning Permission to construct a 21m high telecommunications monopole support structure carrying antennas and transmission dish with associated equipment units and security fencing and access track

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 177

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• CW012-072 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: 18 July 2007 Aerial photographs (CUCAP AVL 87-8 and ASIAP (11) 29-31) show cropmarks of two very regular concentric fosses enclosing circular area (est max. diam. c. 50m). Either a large ring-barrow/ring-ditch or ringfort.

• CW012-074 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: 18 July 2007 Shown on 1839 'OS 6-inch' map as circular feature (max. diam. 30m) and visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (11) 29-31). No visible surface traces. Aerial photograph (GB89.O.37) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a single bank and an external fosse (Barrett 1989).

• CW012-075 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 revision: 15 April 2011 Revised by: Claire Breen Shown on 1838-9 'OS 6-inch' map and on aerial photograph (GSI S 435) as approximately subrectangular raised area (max. diam. c. 55m). Crop on site at time of inspection. Aerial photograph (GB89.O.37) shows faint cropmark of an enclosure defined by a fosse (Barrett 1989). Aerial photograph (GB95.FR.28) shows cropmark of a rectilinear annexe defined by a fosse attached to the eastern side of the previously recorded enclosure. Faint traces of an incomplete circular structure can be seen within the original enclosure, probably a hut site (CW012-075001-). A copy of aerial photograph GB95.FR.27 is printed as Fig.2.6 in the following: Barrett, G.F. (2008) 'The archaeology of County Carlow: an aerial perspective, in T. McGrath and T. O'Keefe (eds), County Carlow: History and Society, Geography Publications, Dublin. 31-51

• CW012-075001 Hut site
  Description

  Faint traces of an incomplete circular structure can be seen within enclosure (CW012-075----) on aerial photograph (GB95.FR.28). A copy of aerial photograph GB95.FR.27 is printed as Fig.2.6 in the following: Barrett, G.F. (2008) 'The archaeology of County Carlow: an aerial perspective, in T. McGrath and T. O'Keefe (eds), County Carlow: History and Society, Geography Publications, Dublin. 31-51 Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• CW012-195 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.GB.21) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 1 February 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballynaboley, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2464 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballynaboley · Baile na Buaile

Area

1,541,483 m² (154.15 ha, 380.91 acres)

Civil parish

Nurney, and its townlands

Barony

Idrone East

Electoral division

Leighlinbridge, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,679 people lived in 637 households in the Leighlinbridge electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyknockan, Leighlinbridge, Oldtown, Orchard, Rathellin, Rathvinden

Placenames

Ballynaboley 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.