Ballymurphy

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymurphy, from 144 m² to 300,796 m² (30.08 ha, 74.33 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballymurphy 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.

• 21 May 2026Conditional

  demolition of existing disused derelict two storey dwelling house and permission sought for new single storey dwelling, onsite sewerage treatment system, double garage/storage shed, decommissioning of existing open well, new bored well,alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2660159

• 19 May 2026N/a

  demolition of existing disused derelict two storey dwelling house and permission sought for new single storey dwelling, onsite sewerage treatment system, double garage/storage shed, decommissioning of existing open well, new bored well, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660153

• 13 Feb 2023Conditional

  1) Permission for retention of sun room constructed to side of existing dwelling 2) permission for retention of detached domestic garage and 3) permission to construct proposed extension to side of existing dwelling consisting of a Physiotherapy Room and all associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2331

• 4 Nov 2020Conditional

  Construction of a single storey dwelling, garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, connection to mains water supply, new splayed entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 20390

• 11 Oct 2019Conditional

  to construct a grain store and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19405

• 18 Apr 2019Conditional

  to 1) demolish existing semi-derelict agricultural shed and 2) permission to construct a slatted cattle shed, concrete aprons and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19143

• 17 Dec 2018Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 18486

• 5 Apr 2018Refused

  To construct a single storey dwelling house, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area, all ancillary site works and services.

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 18112

• 9 Feb 2018N/a

  Full planning permission is sought to construct a single storey dwelling house, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area, all ancillary site works and services,

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 1835

• 7 Feb 2018Conditional

  Planning permission for alterations to previously granted PL. Ref No. 17/175 (the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house with domestic garage, treatment system, percolation area, site entrance, connection to mains water and all other associated site works), consisting of an increase in floor area of 20.56m2 & revisions to all elevations of the dwelling house.

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 1831

• 29 May 2017Conditional

  the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house with domestic garage, treatment system, percolation area, site entrance, connection to mains water and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 17175

• 30 Mar 2017Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a domestic garage/ shed and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 1793

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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

• CW008-024 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 Shown on 1938-39 'OS 6-inch' map as approximately square area (max. dims. c. 70m x 70m) enclosed by bank with external fosse with leat at SW corner. No visible surface traces. Probably a moated site.

• CW008-025 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 Curving bank from E-S-SW indicated by hachures on 1942 'OS 6-inch' map. No visible surface traces. Curving field boundary outside monument suggests ringfort (diam. c. 25m).

• CW008-026 Cist
  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 Cist containing vase food vessel with cremated bone, discovered during extraction of sand from sandpit in 1912 (JRSAI 1970, 109).

• CW008-027 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 Arc of fosse (D 0.5m; Wth c. 2m). Used as quarry for clay, but has now been backfilled and reseeded. Precise nature of site unclear. Bank shown on 25" OS 6-inch map (1963) (L c. 45m).

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballymurphy, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2659 (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 Ballymurphy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Ballymurphy · Baile Uí Mhurchú

Area

1,714,930 m² (171.49 ha, 423.77 acres)

Civil parish

Tullowphelim, and its townlands

Barony

Rathvilly

Electoral division

Tankardstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

487 people lived in 160 households in the Tankardstown electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cannonsquarter, Coppenagh, Downings, Slaneyquarter, Tullowphelim

Placenames

Ballymurphy 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.