Ballyvolan Upper

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvolan Upper, from 274 m² to 104,870 m² (10.49 ha, 25.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Ballyvolan Upper 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 Dec 2022Refused

  1. New single storey 3 bed dwelling comprising of 114sqm. 2. New effluent treatment system. 3. Upgrading of existing vehicular entrance on L4001.

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221385

• 8 Dec 2022N/a

  1. new single storey 3 bed dwelling comprising of 114sqm 2. new effluent treatment system and surface water soakway 3. upgrading of existing vehicular entrance on L4001 in the townland of Ballyvolan Lower, Newcastle Co. Wicklow together with all associated ancillary works to facilitate the above

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221314

• 11 Apr 2022Refused

  1. 2 no. new 110 sqm single storey dwellings, located at the northern and southern ends of the existing family lands. 2. New vehicular entrance off existing public road (L5400) 3. 2 no. new wastewater treatment systems to serve both dwellings

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22378

• 1 Apr 2022N/a

  1. 2 no. new 110 sqm single storey dwellings, located at the northern and southern ends of the existing family lands. 2. New vehicular entrance off existing public road (L5400) 3. 2 no. new wastewater treatment systems to serve both dwellings

  Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 22327

• 29 Oct 2021N/a

  (1) 2 no. new 110 sq.m single storey dwellings, located at the northern and southern ends of existing family lands. (2) Replace existing agricultural vehicular entrance with new shared vehicular entrance to serve both dwellings. (3) 2 no. new wastewater treatment systems to serve both dwellings. Together with all associated ancillary works to facilitate the above

  Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 211295

• 20 Nov 2020Refused

  1. 2 no. new 110 sq.m. single storey dwellings, located at the northern and southern ends of existing family lands. 2. Replace existing agricultural vehicular entrance with new shared vehicular entrance, set back to achieve adequate sight-lines, to serve both dwellings. 3. 2 no. new wastewater treatment systems to serve both dwellings. Together with all associated ancillary works to facilitate the above

  Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 201179

• 20 Aug 2020N/a

  1. 2 no. new 110 sq.m. single storey dwellings, located at the northern and southern ends of existing family lands. 2. Replace existing agricultural vehicular entrance with new shared vehicular entrance, set back to achieve adequate sight-lines, to serve both dwellings. 3. 2 no. new wastewater treatment systems to serve both dwellings. Together with all associated ancillary works to facilitate the above

  Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 20808

• 19 Jun 2019N/a

  2 no new 110 sqm single storey dwellings, located at the northern and southern ends of existing family lands, replace existing agricultural vehicular entrance with new shared vehicular entrance, set back to achieve adequate sightlines to serve both dwellings, 2 no new wastewater treatment systems to serve both dwellings together with all associated ancillary works to facilitate the above

  Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 19663

• 10 Oct 2018Refused

  2 no new 110 sqm single storey dwellings, located at the northern and southern ends of existing family lands, replace existing agricultural vehicular entrance with new shared vehicular entrance, set back to achieve adequate sightlines, to serve both dwellings, 2 no new wastewater treatment systems to serve both dwellings, together with all associated ancillary works to facilitate the above

  Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 181124

• 1 Oct 2018Refused

  dwelling, well, effluent treatment system to comply with current EPA requirements, provision of an access driveway with access gained via right of way over existing entrance, improvement works to adjacent public roadway and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 181071

• 25 Sept 2018N/a

  2 no new 110 sqm single storey dwellings, located at the northern and southern ends of existing family lands, replace existing agricultural vehicular entrance with new shared vehicular entrance, set back to achieve adequate sightlines to serve both dwellings, 2 no new wastewater treatment systems to serve both dwellings together with all associated ancillary works to facilitate the above

  Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 181051

• 26 Sept 2017Conditional

  single storey extension alterations to front elevations to the southeast, velux roof lights to the northwest, front decking and all associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 171162

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 Ballyvolan Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyvolan Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyvolan Upper, about 1 in 5 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_3385 (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 Ballyvolan Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballyvolan Upper · Baile Uí Bheoláin Uachtarach

Area

229,192 m² (22.92 ha, 56.63 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

Ballyvolan Lower, Kiltimon, Newcastle Upper, Timmore

Placenames

Ballyvolan Upper 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.