Balleven

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balleven, from 433 m² to 614,224 m² (61.42 ha, 151.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Balleven 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.

• 8 Dec 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a straw storage shed, concrete apron and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 211005

• 23 Oct 2019Conditional

  to permanently retain the as-built location of existing dwelling house including associated site works previously granted permission under Planning Permission Reference No. P.1/1/4718

  Retention, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19790

• 10 Sept 2018N/a

  for the following - removal of existing roof and construction of new first floor to existing dwelling with new roof, at higher ridge level, first floor extension over existing garage and alterations to existing elevations at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18599

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 the townland of Balleven.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Balleven.

Architectural heritage

• The Thatch, house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched cottage with dormer attic, c.1800, with entrance windbreak. Extended, c.1950, comprising single-bay single-storey end bay to right. Hipped roof with oat thatch having rope work to ridge, and red brick Running bond chimney stacks. Pitched slate roof to end bay with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction with painted rendered, ruled and lined walls to windbreak. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, rendered surrounds, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with glazed tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds with forecourt.(ii) Detached two-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1900, to south. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods. Unpainted roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings (some slit-style) with timber lintels, and timber fittings. Square-headed door opening with timber lintel, and timber boarded 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 Balleven, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Balleven.

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

Name

Balleven · Baile Íbheann

Area

1,186,618 m² (118.66 ha, 293.22 acres)

Civil parish

Ballycallan, and its townlands

Barony

Crannagh

Electoral division

Ballycallan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

461 people lived in 147 households in the Ballycallan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycallan, Ballyfrunk, Ballyhack, Damma Lower, Damma Upper, Gorteenteen

Placenames

Balleven 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.