Ballyduff Upper
Ballyduff Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Lismore and Mocollop, barony of Coshmore and Coshbride, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is An Baile Dubh Uachtarach.
- Area
- 120.9 ha
- 299 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 4,521 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyduff Upper, from 278 m² to 410,371 m² (41.04 ha, 101.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyduff 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
28 Feb 2024Conditional
for two separate single storey extensions to the rear of existing single storey property
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2445
18 Apr 2019Conditional
upgrade of septic tank system and percolation area serving existing dwelling house with new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter to ensure compliance with the EPA Code of Practice 2009 standards and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 19268
24 Sept 2018N/a
the construction of a 720m2 Farm Building
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 18643
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyduff Upper.
Recorded monuments
- WA020-032 Enclosure
Description
In tillage. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m), defined by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Apple Maps), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. See attached imagery: WA020-032----_01 Apple Maps satellite imagery Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 3 July 2023
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyduff 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyduff 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_1499 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyduff Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyduff Upper · An Baile Dubh Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,208,555 m² (120.86 ha, 298.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lismore and Mocollop, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshmore and Coshbride
- Electoral division
- Castlerichard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 494 people lived in 178 households in the Castlerichard electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyduff Lower, Bawnbrack, Cloonbeg, Coolydoody North, Glen Beg, Marshtown (Co. Cork), Shean (Co. Cork), Shean More, Tober
- Placenames
- Ballyduff 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.