Ballygriffin

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygriffin, from 476 m² to 632,217 m² (63.22 ha, 156.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballygriffin 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.

• 3 Aug 2023Conditional

  amendments to roof design of previously approved house (Planning Ref No. 21/257) and for the inclusion of 2 No. Velux type windows on side elevation over kitchen area

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 23630

• 12 Jul 2023N/a

  amendments to roof design and for the inclusion of 2 No. Velux type windows on side elevation over kitchen area

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23594

• 11 Mar 2021Conditional

  detached bungalow with detached garage together with waste water treatment system to current EPA standards, on site bored well, new vehicular entrance onto main road and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21257

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballygriffin.

Recorded monuments

• WI040-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle E-facing slope. Circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) of which only the S part of the enclosing bank is preserved in a field boundary. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

• WI040-027 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a very gentle SE-facing slope. Oval enclosure (dims. c. 30m x 25m) visible as cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AYJ 73). Not visible at ground level. Immediately to the NE is a smaller circular cropmark enclosure (diam. c. 10m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

• WI040-027001 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a very gentle SE-facing slope. Small circular cropmark enclosure (diam. c. 10m) visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AYJ 73). Not visible at ground level. Immediately NE of a larger oval enclosure (dims. c. 30m x 25m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 19 September 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygriffin.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ballygriffin, about 1 in 20 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 low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3296 (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.

No address of the register names Ballygriffin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballygriffin · Baile Ghrífín

Area

1,066,040 m² (106.6 ha, 263.42 acres)

Civil parish

Arklow, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Arklow Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,415 people lived in 498 households in the Arklow Rural electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyduff North, Ballyduff South, Ballyrush, Barnacleagh East, Ecawn, Pollahoney, Thomastown

Placenames

Ballygriffin 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.