Ballygeardra

119 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygeardra, from 6 m² to 293,570 m² (29.36 ha, 72.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 52 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 Ballygeardra 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.

• 23 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct a storey and a half style dwelling, treatment system / percolation area, including all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2572

• 29 Sept 2023Conditional

  is being sought for the construction of a calf rearing house, straw bed calving pens with covered feed passage with ancillary underground seepage storage tank, a silage slab, concrete apron and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 23226

• 14 Apr 2022Conditional

  for a proposed storey and a half dwelling, proposed shared vehicular entrance, driveway, borewell, proposed wastewater treatment tank and percolation area, stormwater soakways, landscaping and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22249

• 14 Apr 2022Refused

  for a Proposed new storey and a half dwelling, proposed shared vehicular entrance, driveway, borewell, proposed wastewater treatment tank and percolation area, stormwater soakaways, landscaping and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22250

• 20 Oct 2020Conditional

  Retention Permission of the existing dwelling and Planning Permission to erect a replacement family dwelling including a separate garage, workshop and greenhouse on this site. The proposed works will include the demolition of the existing dwelling, retention of the existing on site water bored well, the installation of a replacement sewage treatment system including percolation area within the site boundaries, together with further roadside and boundary tree and hedge planting and site landscape works as indicated on the application drawings

  Retention, 2 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 20704

• 17 Sept 2019N/a

  for constructed dwelling, entrance, wastewater treatment system & percolation area, borehole, soakpits and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19662

• 18 Sept 2018Conditional

  to construct a dormer bungalow, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, borehole, soakpits and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18623

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• KK031-020 Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Gorman's Cottage, farmyard complex, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, c.1825, including:(i) Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse with single-bay two-storey advanced entrance bay. Extended, c.1875, comprising two-bay single-storey higher end block with half-dormer attic to left. Extensively renovated. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to half-dormer attic windows) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks, rendered coping, rooflights, and iron rainwater goods. Random rubble stone walls probably originally rendered with render removed retaining painted roughcast to end block. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement glazed tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set in own grounds perpendicular to road.(ii) Attached two-bay single-storey outbuilding with half-attic. Extensively renovated to accommodate residential use. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack, and iron rainwater goods on dressed rubble stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls probably originally rendered with render removed. Square-headed window openings with replacement sills, lintels, some having red brick block-and-start surrounds, and replacement timber casement windows.(iii) Attached three-bay single-storey cottage with half-dormer attic. Extensively renovated. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and iron rainwater goods on dressed limestone eaves. Random rubble limestone walls probably originally rendered with render removed. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with red brick block-and-start surround, and replacement glazed tongue-and-groove timber panelled door.(iv) Attached three-bay single-storey cottage with single-bay single-storey recessed end bay to left. Extensively renovated. Pitched slate roof (hipped to end bay) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks (one squat), and iron rainwater goods on dressed rubble stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls probably originally rendered with render removed. Square-headed window openings with replacement sills, lintels, red brick block-and-start surrounds, and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with red brick block-and-start surround, and replacement glazed tongue-and-groove timber panelled door.

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 Ballygeardra, about 1 in 10 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 Ballygeardra.

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

Name

Ballygeardra · Baile Gheardra

Area

3,207,337 m² (320.73 ha, 792.55 acres)

Civil parish

Knocktopher, and its townlands

Barony

Knocktopher

Electoral division

Knocktopher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

543 people lived in 192 households in the Knocktopher electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboodan, Carrickmerlin, Carrickshock Commons, Coolmore, Hugginstown, Knocktopher Commons, Kyleva, Newmarket, Sheepstown

Placenames

Ballygeardra 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.