Ballycapple
Ballycapple is a townland in the civil parish of Dunganstown, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Baile Capall.
Parcel 1283552
- Area
- 1,746 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballycapple
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.
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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
- 102.1 ha
- 252 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 2,602 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycapple, from 21 m² to 533,263 m² (53.33 ha, 131.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Ballycapple 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 Sept 2026N/a
the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto laneway which leads to public road, upgrading existing entrance onto the public road and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660788
17 Jun 2025Conditional
single storey extension at ground floor to the side of an existing stone cottage to provide for an additional 2 bedrooms and permission for works to upgrade existing septic tank system
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560447
15 Jun 2025N/a
single storey extension at ground floor to the side of an existing stone cottage to provide for an additional 2 bedrooms and permission for works to upgrade existing septic tank system.
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2560443
2 Jun 2025N/a
single storey extension at ground floor to the side of an existing stone cottage to provide for an additional 2 bedrooms and permission for works to upgrade of existing septic tank system
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560409
20 Feb 2024N/a
a single storey dwelling with services, ancillary works and also to construct an agricultural shed and yard proximate to the proposed dwelling house
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2481
21 Dec 2022Conditional
new single vehicle garage to the side of existing dwelling
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221378
19 Mar 2021Conditional
alteration and extension of an existing stone cottage to provide a new open plan dining/kitchen area, relocated master bedroom, new extension providing new living area, and new extension providing an additional en suite bedroom. Demolition of existing conservatory. Alterations to existing hard landscaping to rear. All associated landscaping, drainage, ancillary site works and services
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21294
22 Jun 2020Conditional
dwelling, garage, new entrance onto existing lane, well, treatment unit and soil polishing filter and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20575
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 Ballycapple.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballycapple.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycapple.
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 Ballycapple, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballycapple.
- 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 Ballycapple with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballycapple · Baile Capall
- Area
- 1,020,766 m² (102.08 ha, 252.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunganstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Dunganstown South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 954 people lived in 320 households in the Dunganstown South electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinacor West, Ballintim, Ballycapple Hill, Ballyhara, Ballykean (Penrose), Kilboy, Kilmurry North, Springfarm
- Placenames
- Ballycapple 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.