Ballyring Upper
Ballyring Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Sheffin, barony of Galmoy, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is Baile Rinn Uachtarach.
Parcel 847800
- Area
- 89,597 m² (8.96 ha, 22.14 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 172 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
- Ballyring Upper
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- 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
- 142.9 ha
- 353 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 14,884 m² (1.49 ha, 3.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyring Upper, from 178 m² to 325,455 m² (32.55 ha, 80.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Ballyring Upper 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 Oct 2024Refused
to construct a new hard surfaced yard, new entrance and associated site works for the purpose of storing, shredding and baling and processing end of life tyres and facilitate the installation of relevant plant/machinery, and pending grant of planning permission, I intend applying for a waste permit for the purpose of collection, storage, shredding, baling and processing of the above mentioned end of life tyres
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 24127
26 Sept 2024N/a
to construct a new hard surfaced yard, new entrance and associated site works for the purpose of storing shredding and baling and processing end of life tyres and facilitate the installation of relevant plant/machinery, and pending grant of planning permission, I intend applying for a waste permit for the purpose of collection, storage, shredding, baling and processing of the above mentioned end of life tyres
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 24120
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 Ballyring Upper.
Recorded monuments
- KK009-023 Enclosure
Description
On a terrace on a NE-facing slope in rolling grassland. Enclosure is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1900 revision where it is depicted as a sub-circular area (max. dims. c. 40m N-S; c. 44m E-W), the N and E quadrants are straight sides while the SE-S-NW is curving. The monument has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 31 January 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyring Upper.
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 Ballyring Upper, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyring Upper.
- 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 Ballyring Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyring Upper · Baile Rinn Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,429,261 m² (142.93 ha, 353.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Sheffin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Galmoy
- Electoral division
- Lisdowney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 287 people lived in 97 households in the Lisdowney electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygowney, Ballyring Lower, Garrydague, Lisdowney, Tentore, Tifeaghna (Mt. Garret)
- Placenames
- Ballyring Upper 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.