Ballymooney

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymooney, from 234 m² to 1,672,579 m² (167.26 ha, 413.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Ballymooney 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.

• 27 Aug 2025N/a

  single storey dwelling with on-site treatment plant and soil polishing filter along a new entrance and all associate site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560669

• 25 Oct 2023Refused

  construction of a single storey bungalow, secondary effluent treatment system, private well, recessed entrance and all associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360375

• 27 Oct 2020Refused

  the construction of a single storey bungalow, secondary effluent treatment system, private well, recessed entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201071

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 Ballymooney.

Recorded monuments

• WI015-029001 Church
  Description

  Situated in the N portion of a hollowed-out cairn (WI015-029002-) on the summit of Church Mountain. The foundations of a building (dims. 10.5m E-W; 7m N-S) containing some roughly dressed granite blocks, traditionally the site of a church and named as such on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Some cut stone, possibly from a door or window, is reputed to have been removed from the site. The cairn was hollowed out forming a roughly circular enclosure and there is some indication that edge of the cairn was at one stage structured to form a bank (Wth c. 5m). There is a well known as 'St Gad's Well' (WI015-029003-) excavated into the cairn at the W. 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

• WI015-029002 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Circular cairn (diam. 30m; max. H 3.5m) on the summit of Church Mountain. The centre of the cairn has been hollowed out to form an enclosure in which there are the foundations of a church (WI015-029001-) and a well (WI015-029003-). Herity (1974, 258) suggests it may be a passage tomb, but there is no trace of a kerb. Three slabs lie in the SW quadrant. 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

• WI015-029003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated on the summit of Church Mountain. Circular shaft (D 1.8-2m) excavated through the body of a cairn (WI015-029002-). Known locally 'St Gad's Well', it occurs on the W side of an enclosure constructed from the hollowed interior of the cairn which also contains the remains of a church (WI015-029001-). 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

• WI015-029004 Font
  Description

  O'Donovan (1838-40, 127) mentions that "a stone stands about 4 feet high with a cavity in it". within the enclosure (WI015-029002-) on the summit of Church Mountain. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 20 December 2012

• WI015-051 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on a steep W-facing slope overlooking a ravine. Two rectangular hut foundations defined by earth and stone walls (Wth 1-1.2m; H 0.4m). The N example (dims. 6m N-S; 4m E-W) has a large slab at the NE corner suggesting an entrance while the second hut (dims. 9.7m E-W; 6.8m N-S) is 3m to the SW and has an entrance indicated by two large prostrate slabs at the W end. 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

• WI015-051001 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on a steep W-facing slope overlooking a ravine c. 3m to the SW of a similar hut (WI015-051----) . A rectangular hut foundation (dims. 9.7m E-W; 6.8m N-S) defined by earth and stone walls (Wth 1-1.2m; H 0.4m). There is an entrance at the W defined by two large prostrate slabs. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 24 December 2012

• WI015-052 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on a steep W-facing slope overlooking a ravine. Quadrangular foundation (dims. 4m x 4m) indicated by a low bank, open on the S side. 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

• WI015-053 Clochan
  Description

  Listed as a 'clochan' in the SMR (1986) and as a possible 'clochan' in the RMP (1995). On a steep W-facing slope overlooking a ravine. A field visit in 1989 failed to locate the clochan due to the area being heavily masked with bracken and gorse. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 24 December 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballymooney, 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

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

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

Name

Ballymooney · Baile Uí Mhaonaigh

Area

2,901,641 m² (290.16 ha, 717.01 acres)

Civil parish

Donard, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Donard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

586 people lived in 206 households in the Donard electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Intack, Kilbaylet Lower, Kilbaylet Upper, Kilcoagh East, Kilcoagh West, Studfield North, Toor, Woodenboley

Placenames

Ballymooney 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.