Ballybla

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybla, from 4,632 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres) to 925,445 m² (92.54 ha, 228.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Ballybla 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.

• 21 Nov 2025Conditional

  existing single storey cabin structure as constructed on site of existing farmstead for agricultural use

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560952

• 22 Sept 2025N/a

  existing single storey cabin structure as constructed on site of existing farmstead for agricultural use

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560746

• 16 Sept 2025N/a

  existing single storey cabin structure as constructed on site of existing farmstead for agricultural use

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560734

• 29 Aug 2025N/a

  existing single storey cabin structure as constructed on site of existing farmstead for agricultural use

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560674

• 15 Jul 2022Refused

  existing 2-bed residential unit for agri-tourism accommodation as constructed on-site of the existing farmstead, together with site access and associated site works. Planning permission is also sought for a new effluent treatment system to serve subject building, all together with associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 22790

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: The Murrough Wetlands SAC 002249
• Special Protection Area: The Murrough cSPA 004186
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: The Murrough 000730

Recorded monuments

• WI019-041 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle E-facing slope. Subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) visible as low earthwork on Ordnance Survey aerial photograph. (Swan 1996, fig. 6) 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: 29 November 2012 See linked image with aerial photograph taken from Swan, D. L. 1996 Archaeological assessment of area of proposed development at Killoughter, Co. Wicklow. Unpublished report. National Monuments Section, Heritage and Planning Division, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dublin.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballybla, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3399 (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 Ballybla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballybla · Baile Blá

Area

1,129,969 m² (113 ha, 279.22 acres)

Civil parish

Killiskey, and its townlands

Barony

Newcastle

Electoral division

Newcastle Lower, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,472 people lived in 797 households in the Newcastle Lower electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnacoyle Little, Castlegrange, Clonmannan

Placenames

Ballybla 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.