Ballyglan
Townland in the civil parish of Kill St Nicholas, barony of Gaultiere, Co. Waterford; in Irish Baile an Ghleanna
- Area
- 153.7 ha
- 380 acres
- Land parcels
- 52
- registered freehold, median 1,228 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyglan, from 13 m² to 311,431 m² (31.14 ha, 76.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyglan 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
13 Jul 2026Conditional
of as built single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2660518
23 Dec 2025Conditional
dwelling house as constructed to include minor changes to orientation, elevations, roof design and layout as follows:- marginally changed location within the subject site, together with changes in rotation and orientation to entrance and kitchen elements of the house, with entrance now located to the west in the dwelling, formation of study beneath eastern external stair, removal of curved roof and replacement with gentle mono-pitch, simplification of elevations and removal of protruding window bays, straightening of glazed wall to south-east and minor changes to entrance gateway design, further to previous Full Grant of Planning Permission Reg Ref: 02/1375
Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2560958
8 Oct 2025Conditional
the construction of a single-storey Garage ancillary to existing house currently under construction, Planning Ref. 24/60399 and associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2560718
12 Jul 2024Conditional
construction of a new single storey dwelling, associated effluent treatment system and percolation area, construction of a new vehicular entrance, erection of new site boundaries, together with all associated site works including works to existing road entrance to public road
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2460399
18 Jan 2024Conditional
for the sub-division of the existing site and boundary alterations from that previously granted under planning permission ref: 01/785 as amended by planning permission ref: 05/1723
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2460024
26 Oct 2017Conditional
to relocate the existing entrance to the dwelling house and lands together with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 17750
10 May 2017Conditional
to construct a single storey side extension to property
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 17314
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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Waterford Harbour 000787
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyglan.
Architectural heritage
- Ballyglan House, country house, 1771–1799 · Regional interest
Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey country house, extant 1799, on an E-shaped plan with pair of single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey returns centred on single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey return (west). Occupied, 1901; 1911. Hipped slate roof on an E-shaped plan behind parapet with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having chamfered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal or square profile tapered pots, and concealed rainwater goods retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes with cast-iron rainwater goods (west) on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls with moulded rendered cornice to parapet. Bisected segmental-headed central door opening with threshold, and doorcase with engaged Doric columns on plinths supporting open bed pediment on "dosserets" framing timber panelled double doors having fanlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with "bas-relief" monolithic surrounds framing timber casement windows. Square-headed central window opening (first floor) with sill, and concealed dressings framing four-over-four timber sash window. Square-headed window openings with sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-nine (ground floor) or three-over-three (first floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters with carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds with limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having urn finial-topped ogee capping supporting wrought iron double gates.
- Post box, 1881–1901 · Regional interest
Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron "wall box" post box, extant 1905. Set in boundary wall.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Ballyglan.
- 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 Ballyglan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyglan · Baile an Ghleanna
- Area
- 1,537,110 m² (153.71 ha, 379.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kill St Nicholas, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gaultiere
- Electoral division
- Woodstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Woodstown electoral division: 635 people in 234 households; 90% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Harristown, Kilmacomb, Knockavelish, Woodstown Lower, Woodstown Upper
- Placenames
- Ballyglan 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.