Ballyshonog

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyshonog, from 85 m² to 564,341 m² (56.43 ha, 139.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Ballyshonog 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.

• 23 Sept 2025Conditional

  (i) existing milking parlour, (ii) existing concrete slab, (iii) existing hard surface roadway and (iv) existing site layout (Previous Planning Reg. No. 15/740 refers)

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560749

• 4 Mar 2025Conditional

  the removal of existing shed structures to side and rear of existing house, the provision of a new two storey rear return granny flat over new farm sheds and associated effluent treatment system, and the provision a new single storey kitchen extension to the side of the existing house

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560138

• 16 May 2023Conditional

  proposed single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23467

• 8 May 2023Conditional

  Permission for works to existing dwelling house including the following; 1. Construction of a single storey extension to the front of existing dwelling house, 2. Construction of a single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling house, also construction of a domestic garage along with all associated site works at

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360034

• 6 May 2020Refused

  construct a fully serviced dwelling house with domestic garage and all associated site works including septic tank and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20420

• 15 Apr 2019Conditional

  extension to the side (south west) of our existing dwelling and erect an extension to the side (north east) of existing dwelling including a domestic garage under roof and all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19401

• 28 May 2018Conditional

  construct a straw bedded cattle shed, concrete aprons and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18574

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyshonog.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyshonog, 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 Ballyshonog.

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

Name

Ballyshonog · Baile Sheonac

Area

2,263,001 m² (226.3 ha, 559.2 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Shillelagh Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor South

Electoral division

Tinahely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,634 people lived in 613 households in the Tinahely electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyraheen, Boleybawn, Coolross, Farnees, Glenphilipeen, Greenhall, Muskeagh, Newtown, Tinahely

Placenames

Ballyshonog 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.