Ballinacor
Ballinacor is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Shillelagh Ra), barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Baile na Corra Beag.
Parcel 1283316
- Area
- 4,690 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 338 m².
- Zoning
- R2 Existing Residential (Tinahely Town Plan) The objective
- Townland
- Ballinacor
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 70.1 ha
- 173 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 1,128 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinacor, from 6 m² to 317,461 m² (31.75 ha, 78.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Tinahely Town Plan, Wicklow · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Tinahely Town Plan, Wicklow · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Passive Open Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Tinahely Town Plan, Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 May 2026Conditional
1) permission to demolish an existing dwelling and 2) construct a replacement dwelling house with services and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660464
20 May 2026Conditional
the change of use of an existing ground floor unit (86m²) from light industrial / office use to a personal training gym
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660437
25 Apr 2026N/a
change of use of an existing ground floor unit (86m²) from light industrial / office use to a personal training gym
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660337
16 Apr 2026N/a
change of use of an existing ground floor unit (86m²) from light industrial / office use to a personal training gym
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660312
6 Mar 2023Conditional
for change of house type from two storey to single storey with changes to site layout plan consisting of change of vehicular entrance with associated works previously granted under planning register number 20/1311.
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 23214
11 Dec 2020Conditional
single storey extension to side and rear of existing dwelling house including drainage and ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 201271
10 Sept 2020Conditional
change of use from commercial to veterinary clinic and surgery with ancillary retail and for internal modifications
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20892
4 Mar 2019Conditional
detached domestic garage and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19231
6 Sept 2017Conditional
two storey extension to an existing dwelling including all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171080
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 Ballinacor.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinacor.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinacor.
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 Ballinacor, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinacor.
- 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 Ballinacor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinacor · Baile na Corra Beag
- Area
- 700,655 m² (70.07 ha, 173.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Shillelagh Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Tinahely, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,634 people lived in 613 households in the Tinahely electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolafunshoge, Lugduff, Mangans, Rosbane, Tinahely, Whitefield
- Placenames
- Ballinacor 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.