Baunmore or Balleen Upper

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Baunmore or Balleen Upper, from 152 m² to 83,646 m² (8.36 ha, 20.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Baunmore or Balleen 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.

• 11 Apr 2025Conditional

  construction of a single story dwelling house and garage, upgrading of site entrance, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560194

• 4 May 2023Conditional

  for construction of a two storey dwelling and garage, upgrading the existing site entrance, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all associated site work

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2360178

• 27 Apr 2023N/a

  for the construction of a two storey dwelling and garage, upgrading the existing site entrance, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all associated site work

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360164

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 Baunmore or Balleen Upper.

Recorded monuments

• KK009-032 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In an elevated position in rolling grassland, with good views. A cashel (KK009-033----) is located c. 170m to the SE. Indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 31m) on the 1900 revision OS 6-inch map. The enclosure was levelled during land reclamation. It is not visible at ground level. A field boundary runs NE-SW along the outer SE edge of the monument. The location and size of the enclosure sugggest that this is a ringfort. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 5 February 2018

• KK009-033 Enclosure
  Description

  On top of a hill in hilly terrain, with a valley running E-W at base of the hill to the N, in pasture. The views are good to the N and W and extensive to the E and S. A slightly oval ringfort (diam. c. 30m N-S; c. 36m E-W) raised above exterior and is defined by a low broad bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 1.08m; Wth at crest 1m; overall Wth 3.1m) with some evidence of a fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.12m) at the base of the N quadrant where there is also loose stone, perhaps from bank collapse and/or field clearance. The bank, which has a high stone content, appears to be largely reduced to scarp, however, it is much obscured by vegetation. There is some erosion in the NE quadrant at the edge of the scarp. The interior is heavily overgrown with brambles, nettles and some hawthorns, though they are mostly growing around the perimeter. A field boundary with a high stone content, running NNE-SSW, transects the NW quadrant. On the 25-inch OS map there is a possible entrance depicted in the NNW sector where it is transected by the field boundary. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 23 July 2018

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Baunmore or Balleen 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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Baunmore or Balleen 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2032 (ZIP).

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 Baunmore or Balleen Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Baunmore or Balleen Upper · An Bán Mór nó Baile Uí Eidhin Uachtarach

Area

589,064 m² (58.91 ha, 145.56 acres)

Civil parish

Balleen, and its townlands

Barony

Galmoy

Electoral division

Balleen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

517 people lived in 173 households in the Balleen electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balleen Lower, Foyle South, Garranamanagh

Placenames

Baunmore or Balleen 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.