Ballybur Lower
Ballybur Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Ballybur, barony of Shillelogher, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is Baile an Bhurraigh Íochtarach.
Parcel 840622
- Area
- 2,570 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 104 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
- Ballybur Lower
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
- 110.8 ha
- 274 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 3,245 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybur Lower, from 79 m² to 222,602 m² (22.26 ha, 55.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Ballybur Lower 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
19 Feb 2024Conditional
PERMISSION for retention of front wall and gates as constructed and planning permission to demolish existing sunroom, to construct an extension to our dwelling house, consisting of a kitchen, living and dining area, including all necessary site works
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2460072
18 Feb 2024Conditional
1. Retain domestic extensions to dwelling, 2. Demolish outbuilding used for commercial storage. 3. Retain remaining outbuilding used for commercial storage and workshop/ display purposes and change use to sheds for residential enjoyment 3.. All associated site works
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2460071
16 Sept 2022Conditional
for replacement dwelling at site to include the following : 1. To demolish existing two storey dwelling. 2. To construct a new two storey dwelling house. 3. To construct a new single storey detached stables. 4. Provision of a new treatment plant and percolation area. 5. New bore hole well. 6. Adjusted vehicular site entrance. 7. All associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22615
19 May 2022Refused
to retain; domestic extensions to dwelling, domestic storage sheds, and all associated site works
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 22325
16 Mar 2021Conditional
to construct extensions to dwelling, upgrade existing wastewater system to comply with current EPA Standards and all associated works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21188
12 Dec 2019Conditional
for a new single storey extension to the front of our existing dwelling, minor alterations to façade and new entrance walls/piers plus all associated works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19921
9 Apr 2019Conditional
for a 2 storey dwelling house and garage, installation of a waste water treatment system, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19238
27 Nov 2018Refused
for construction of a dormer type or one and a half storey dwelling house, entrance, foul effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18783
26 Nov 2018Conditional
to retain the changes carried out to the originally granted garage, stable and tack room (under Planning Permission Reference Number 01/1335) located on our property at
Retention, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18777
23 Oct 2018N/a
for construction of a dormer type or one and a half storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, foul effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works at
Outline permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18706
7 Feb 2017Conditional
for a two storey dwelling, garage, stables, waste water treatment unit, bored well and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 1756
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 Ballybur Lower.
Recorded monuments
- KK023-050 Fulacht fia
Description
Within a fallow area surrounded by forestry. A fulacht fia identified by Prendergast (1955, 10). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 17 August 2021
- KK023-169 Enclosure
Description
Circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) identified as a cropmark on aerial photographs (ASIAP (22) 10-12, August 1996). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 August 2015
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybur Lower.
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 Ballybur Lower, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballybur Lower.
- 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 Ballybur Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybur Lower · Baile an Bhurraigh Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,107,909 m² (110.79 ha, 273.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballybur, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelogher
- Electoral division
- Grange, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 903 people lived in 285 households in the Grange electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybur, Ballybur Upper, Cappafaulish, Church Hill, Grove, Paddock, Sunhill
- Placenames
- Ballybur Lower 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.