Ballycanvan Little
Townland in the civil parish of Kill St Nicholas, barony of Gaultiere, Co. Waterford; in Irish Baile Uí Cheannabháin Beag
- Area
- 1.6 ha
- 4 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 15,791 m² (1.58 ha, 3.9 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- HA
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Ballycanvan Little, from 15,791 m² (1.58 ha, 3.9 acres) to 15,791 m² (1.58 ha, 3.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3HA (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 Jun 2025Conditional
to retain indefinitely the single storey, detached house, with it’s associated development works of entrance from adjoining public road (R683), driveway, surrounding path and front apron and also the necessary services as installed, including water supply and wastewater disposal of treatment plant and percolation bed
Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2560452
23 Jun 2025N/a
to retain indefinitely the single storey, detached house, with it’s associated development works of entrance from adjoining public road (R683), driveway, surrounding path and front apron and also the necessary services as installed, including water supply and wastewater disposal of treatment plant and percolation bed all on the site
Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2560435
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballycanvan Little.
Architectural heritage
- John Meade, house, 1700–1841 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1841, on a rectangular plan. Pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on roughcast eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast battered wall to front (south) elevation; rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings with sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one (ground floor) or two-over-two (first floor) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Road fronted.
- Bridge, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch bridge over road, built 1862-3. Coursed rubble limestone walls between coursed rubble limestone battered piers with margined tooled cut-limestone chamfered stringcourses supporting parapets having margined tooled cut-limestone coping. Single elliptical arch with margined tooled limestone ashlar crow stepped voussoirs centred on margined tooled cut-limestone keystones. Sited spanning road.
- Water pump, 1908–1922 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cast-iron "cow tail" waterpump, extant 1922. Now disused. Road fronted.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballycanvan Little.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballycanvan Little with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballycanvan Little · Baile Uí Cheannabháin Beag
- Area
- 15,543 m² (1.55 ha, 3.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kill St Nicholas, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gaultiere
- Electoral division
- Faithlegg, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Faithlegg electoral division: 2,115 people in 765 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygunnertemple, Ballymaclode, Ballynabola
- Placenames
- Ballycanvan Little 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.