Ballynaraha
Ballynaraha is a townland in the civil parish of Lismore and Mocollop, barony of Coshmore and Coshbride, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is Baile na Rátha.
- Area
- 75.7 ha
- 187 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 12,702 m² (1.27 ha, 3.14 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynaraha, from 108 m² to 306,417 m² (30.64 ha, 75.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Ballynaraha 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
14 Aug 2019Conditional
waste water treatment system and polishing filter as constructed
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 19600
30 Aug 2018Conditional
garage and storage shed as constructed
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 18586
8 Aug 2018Conditional
for indefinite retention for dwelling house, which is part two storey, part one and a half storey, for garage, entrance, well, septic tank and percolation area
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 18536
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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackwater River And Estuary 000072
Recorded monuments
- WA029-018 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Marked as a large circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 75-80m) on the 1840 and 1927 eds of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated in pasture towards the top of a SE-facing slope, with a steeper slope down to the WNW-ESE River Bride c. 300m to the S. It is not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 January 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynaraha.
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 Ballynaraha, 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1652 (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 Ballynaraha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynaraha · Baile na Rátha
- Area
- 757,344 m² (75.73 ha, 187.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lismore and Mocollop, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshmore and Coshbride
- Electoral division
- Lismore Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,256 people lived in 457 households in the Lismore Rural electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballysaggartbeghill, Bridane Lower, Bridane Upper, Deerparkhill, Kilnacarriga
- Placenames
- Ballynaraha 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.