Ballard Lower

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballard Lower, from 65 m² to 40,760 m² (4.08 ha, 10.07 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 Ballard Lower 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.

• 14 Nov 2025Conditional

  extension to the side of dwelling and associated works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 25322

• 1 Nov 2022Conditional

  removal of planning condition no. 3 of planning ref 01/5242 (from restricted use of dwelling to use by all classes of persons)

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221153

• 21 Sept 2021Conditional

  insertion of a new 49m2 toilet block within the internal courtyard of the existing building and the change of use of the 28m2 first floor of the development from Residential to staff welfare areas solely related to the Ground Floor Operations

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211151

• 12 Aug 2021N/a

  insertion of a new 49m2 toilet block within the internal courtyard of the existing building and the change of use of the 28m2 first floor of the development from Residential to Restaurant for the purposes of staff welfare areas solely related to the ground floor

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21999

• 6 Oct 2020Refused

  the insertion of a new 49m2 toilet block within the internal courtyard of the existing building and the change of use of the 425m2 first floor of the development from residential to restaurant/function room

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20982

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 Ballard Lower.

Recorded monuments

• WI031-094 Pit
  Description

  This is the record for the pit excavated by Ellen O'Carroll (E3244) on the N11 road improvement scheme. The pit measuring 1.05m by 0.9m in diameter and 0.11m in depth. It had a single fill and there were no finds to suggest a date or function. (O'Carroll 2009g) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 17 January 2013

• WI031-095 Burnt spread
  Description

  This is the record for the burnt spread excavated by Goorik Dehaene (E3245) on the N11 road improvement scheme. The burnt spread comprised two small, shallow burnt spreads in the west of the site. The pit comprised an irregular shallow cut with a single fill. The possible post-hole was in the centre of the site. An east–west-aligned field drain was located in the north of the site. (Dehaene 2009n) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 17 January 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballard Lower, 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 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 Ballard Lower.

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

Name

Ballard Lower · An Baile Ard Íochtarach

Area

256,736 m² (25.67 ha, 63.44 acres)

Civil parish

Dunganstown, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Dunganstown South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

954 people lived in 320 households in the Dunganstown South electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballard Upper, Ballinameesda Lower, Breagura, Kilboy

Placenames

Ballard Lower 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.