Ballyarthur

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyarthur, from 1,332 m² to 100,474 m² (10.05 ha, 24.83 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 Ballyarthur 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.

• 11 Apr 2025Conditional

  sunroom extension and additional first floor residential accommodation together with free standing storage outbuildings for uses ancillary to main house

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560277

• 6 Mar 2025N/a

  sunroom extension and additional first floor residential accommodation together with free standing storage outbuildings for uses ancillary to main house

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560152

• 27 Jan 2025N/a

  sunroom extension and additional first floor residential accommodation together with free standing storage outbuildings for uses ancillary to main house

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560036

• 3 Aug 2021Conditional

  proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage , new entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21957

• 27 Aug 2019Conditional

  Dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto lane and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19945

• 3 Mar 2017Conditional

  the construction of a bungalow with garage, well, new entrance off existing lane and for a new effluent treatment system to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17223

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Avoca River Valley 001748

Recorded monuments

• WI040-015 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Situated on level ground in undulating terrain above the steep eastern slopes of the Vale of Avoca. Late 17th-century two-storey house of five-bay construction, containing contemporary interior panelling. Modified during the early 19th century (Bence-Jones 1978, 19). 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

Architectural heritage

• Ballyarthur House, hunting/fishing lodge, 1670–1690 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement sporting lodge, built c.1680. The sporting lodge, which was re-fronted in the 19th century, is finished in render. The replacement panelled door is set within a projecting flat roofed porch with castellated parapet; this is set on a three-bay gabled breakfront. Window openings are flat headed with one over one timber sash frames; some are tripartite. The hipped roof is finished with natural slate and has cast-iron rainwater goods. The roof is partly hidden by a castellated parapet (added in the 19th century). Chimneystacks have plain caps and tall clay pots. Internally much of the original detailing has survived. To the rear there are stable blocks some of which are now derelict. The sporting lodge is set within a large wooded demesne.

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 Ballyarthur, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3294 (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 Ballyarthur with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballyarthur · Baile Artúir

Area

1,886,744 m² (188.67 ha, 466.22 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemacadam, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Ballyarthur, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,144 people lived in 397 households in the Ballyarthur electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballanagh, Garnagowlan, Kilcarra West, Killeagh, Knockanduff, Shelton Abbey, Slievenavode

Placenames

Ballyarthur 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.