Ballyknockan Upper

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyknockan Upper, from 891 m² to 319,595 m² (31.96 ha, 78.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Ballyknockan 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.

• 3 Feb 2023Refused

  construction of a bungalow with new entrance and access driveway, new treatment system and percolation area to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2394

• 25 Oct 2022N/a

  construction of a bungalow with new entrance and access driveway, new treatment system and percolation area to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221129

• 19 Nov 2021N/a

  construction of a two-storey dwelling with new entrance and access driveway, new treatment system and percolation area to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211384

• 5 Aug 2020Conditional

  extension of existing farmhouse and permission for change of use of existing farm outbuildings to habitable space and connection back to existing farmhouse. The development consists of connection of existing farmhouse to 3 number outbuildings to provide additional family accommodation and amendments to existing effluent disposal system to EPA Standards and change of use of separate south barn to short term holiday let and separate effluent disposal system for this unit to current EPA standards

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20753

• 14 Nov 2019Conditional

  reclamation of land through the filling of material comprising clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone on a site having an area of 9.82 hectares, for the purpose of improvement of land, together with site access and roadway and other ancillary site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 191226

• 11 Oct 2019Conditional

  one bedroom self contained unit ancillary to existing house and stable yard and retention of building consisting of 3 sheds, proposed new wastewater treatment system to EPA standards in lieu of existing septic tank and associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 191110

• 5 Mar 2019Conditional

  dwelling and garage with services and all associated site development works along with widening the existing farm access lane to 5m wide along the eastern boundary to the site

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19234

• 1 Aug 2018N/a

  dwelling and garage with services and all associated site development works along with widening the existing farm access lane to 6m wide along the eastern boundary to the site

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18877

• 23 Jul 2018N/a

  erect a dwelling and garage with services along with all associated site development works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18841

• 25 Apr 2018Conditional

  changes to windows and doors at front and side gables of existing farmhouse and replacement and relocation of septic tank

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 18430

• 2 Mar 2017Conditional

  the reclamation of land through the filling of material comprising clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone on a site having an area of 5.583 hectares, for the purpose of improvement of land, together with site access and roadway and other ancillary site works. The proposed development relates to activity , which requires a waste licence

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17221

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 Ballyknockan Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyknockan Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyknockan Upper.

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 Ballyknockan Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballyknockan Upper · Baile an Chnocáin Uachtarach

Area

1,226,506 m² (122.65 ha, 303.08 acres)

Civil parish

Rathdrum, and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor North

Electoral division

Rathdrum, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,173 people lived in 1,108 households in the Rathdrum electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinacarrig Lower, Ballyknockan Lower, Corballis Upper, Garrymore Lower, Garrymore Upper, Knockadosan

Placenames

Ballyknockan 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.