Ballynicole
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmolash, barony of Decies Within Drum, Co. Waterford; in Irish Baile Mhic Niocóil
- Area
- 95.9 ha
- 237 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 131,622 m² (13.16 ha, 32.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynicole, from 23,627 m² (2.36 ha, 5.84 acres) to 224,171 m² (22.42 ha, 55.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Ballynicole 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
2 Feb 2025Conditional
for a single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling together with a conservatory to the front of existing dwelling.
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2560057
25 Jan 2025N/a
permission for Indefinite Retention for a single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling and also Retention for a conservatory to the front of existing dwelling.
Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2560041
1 Nov 2023Conditional
New Single storey Dwelling together with a detached Garage, new entrance, bore well, septic tank, percolation area and ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2360524
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 Ballynicole.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynicole.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynicole.
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1704 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballynicole with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynicole · Baile Mhic Niocóil
- Area
- 959,303 m² (95.93 ha, 237.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmolash, and its townlands
- Barony
- Decies Within Drum
- Electoral division
- Keereen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Keereen electoral division: 240 people in 92 households; 75% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aglish, Ballingowan East, Ballynaparka, Kilmagibboge
- Placenames
- Ballynicole 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.