Ballykeefe Hill

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykeefe Hill, from 69 m² to 551,502 m² (55.15 ha, 136.28 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballykeefe Hill 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.

• 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

• 25 Aug 2023Conditional

  for Upgrade Works to the Entrance to Ballykeeffe Woods from the Regional Road R695 to include regrading to provide new dwell area, set back of existing Boundary Wall to improve sightlines, new wing walls, new surfacing & signage along with all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360381

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballykeefe Wood 000400

Recorded monuments

• KK022-056 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 60m) identified as a cropmark on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 17 June 2017) by Jean-Charles Caillère. The enclosure is defined by an inner and outer fosse, which are c. 8-10m apart. In more recent satellite imagery (Google Earth Pro imagery, imagery date 10 August 2022) a large enclosure (KK022-057----) is visible c. 15m to the NE. See attached photograph: KK025-056----_01 Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (14 July 2018) KK025-056----_02 Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (10 August 2022) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 13 June 2023

• KK022-057 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A large curvilinear enclosure (diam. c. 96m N-S; c. 88m E-W) identified as a cropmark on Google Earth satellite imagery (imagery date 10 August 2022) identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. The enclosure is defined by a fosse which appears to be relatively straight in the NE and SW sectors, but is otherwise curving. A smaller enclosure (KK022-056----), also visible as a cropmark, is located c. 15m to the SW. See attached photograph: KK025-056----_01 Google Earth satellite imagery (10 August 2022) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 13 June 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballykeefe Hill, 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 high, 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 Ballykeefe Hill.

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 Ballykeefe Hill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Ballykeefe Hill · Cnoc Bhaile Uí Chaoimh

Area

929,634 m² (92.96 ha, 229.72 acres)

Civil parish

Tullaghanbrogue, and its townlands

Barony

Crannagh

Electoral division

Tullaghanbrogue, the unit of the census

Census 2022

546 people lived in 178 households in the Tullaghanbrogue electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykeefe, Ballykeefe, Ballykeefecastle, Doorath, Kilballykeefe, Knockeenbaun

Placenames

Ballykeefe Hill 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.