Ballyleen
Ballyleen is a townland in the civil parish of Ballon, barony of Forth, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is Baile Líon.
Parcel 798549
- Area
- 29,468 m² (2.95 ha, 7.28 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Ballyleen
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2634 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 168.2 ha
- 416 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 29,468 m² (2.95 ha, 7.28 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyleen, from 891 m² to 315,804 m² (31.58 ha, 78.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Ballyleen 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
22 Jan 2025Conditional
demolish 2 No. existing hen houses and permission for the erection of a new hen house and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560012
22 Jun 2023Conditional
permission for the erection of a garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2360116
22 May 2023N/a
permission for the erection of a garage and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2360089
8 Aug 2022N/a
the erection of a garage and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 22258
20 Nov 2018Conditional
for the construction of a two storey residence, new vehicular entrance and driveway, advanced wastewater treatment system, soil percolation area and associated site development and boundary works. The total floor area of the house will be 264.7msq. The total site area is 0.202 hectares/0.5 acres.
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 18454
2 Nov 2018N/a
the construction of a two storey residence, new vehicular entrance and driveway, advanced wastewater treatment system, soil percolation area and associated site development and boundary works. The total floor area of the house will be 264.7m2. The total site area is 0.202 hectares/0.5 acres
Permission · Carlow County Council, 18423
28 Sept 2018N/a
the construction of a two storey residence, new vehicular entrance and driveway, advanced wastewater treatment system, soil percolation area and associated site development and boundary works. The total floor area of the house will be 264.7mq. The total site area is 0.202 ectares/0.5 acres.
Permission · Carlow County Council, 18377
15 May 2018Refused
the development will consist of the construction of a two storey residence, new vehicular entrance and driveway, advanced wastewater treatment system, soil percolation area and associated site development and boundary works. The total floor area of the house will be 264.7m2. The total site area is 0.19 Hectares/ 0.48 acres
Permission · Carlow County Council, 18192
26 Mar 2018N/a
The development will consists of the Construction of a two storey residence, new vehicular entrance and driveway, advanced wastewater Treatment system, Soil percolation area and associated site development and boundary works.
Permission · Carlow County Council, 1897
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 Ballyleen.
Recorded monuments
- CW017-060 Enclosure
Description
Aerial photograph (GB89.AH.15) shows cropmark of a small and incomplete sub-circular enclosure defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 10 June 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyleen.
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 Ballyleen, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2664 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyleen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyleen · Baile Líon
- Area
- 1,682,171 m² (168.22 ha, 415.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Ballon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 788 people lived in 251 households in the Ballon electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballaghmore, Ballinvally, Ballykealey, Cappagh, Kilknock, Larah, Lisgarvan, Ullard More
- Placenames
- Ballyleen 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.