Ballykeefe
Ballykeefe is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmanagh, barony of Crannagh, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Chaoimh.
Parcel 837980
- Area
- 3,457 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 72 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
- Ballykeefe
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
- 5.7 ha
- 14 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 2,487 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykeefe, from 312 m² to 28,051 m² (2.81 ha, 6.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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 Ballykeefe 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
13 Jul 2026Conditional
for selected environmental and facilities upgrades to the Ballykeefe Amphitheatre and immediate environs to comprise the following: 1. Signage to southern boundary, 2. Conservation remedial works to the lime kiln, 3. Boundary treatment and selected indigenous planting to southern quarter (open vista area), 4. Installation of way finding signage and information boards within the environs, 5. Remove the platform and regularise seating at row 6 at the north end of the Amphitheatre, 6. Replacement performers changing / green room structure to include holding tank, 7. Provision of a pergola framed walkway from Stage to Green Room, with all ancillary and associated works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660447
29 Jun 2022Conditional
to retain extension built to my dwelling including associated site works
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 22422
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballykeefe Wood 000400
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballykeefe.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballykeefe.
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 Ballykeefe, 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 Ballykeefe.
- 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 Ballykeefe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Ballykeefe · Baile Uí Chaoimh
- Area
- 56,740 m² (5.67 ha, 14.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmanagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Crannagh
- Electoral division
- Kilmanagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 560 people lived in 188 households in the Kilmanagh electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykeefe, Ballykeefe Hill, Knockeenbaun, Sheeptown
- Placenames
- Ballykeefe 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.