Ballysize Lower

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballysize Lower, from 156 m² to 157,675 m² (15.77 ha, 38.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Ballysize 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.

• 23 Apr 2026Conditional

  agricultural entrance and ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660333

• 23 Apr 2026N/a

  agricultural entrance and ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660334

• 28 Nov 2024Conditional

  completion of 2-storey detached dwelling currently under construction, permission sought for proposed garage, on-site wastewater treatment plant & soil polishing filter, site boundaries, vehicular entrance & ancillary works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2460750

• 7 Nov 2024N/a

  and completion of permitted dwelling & ancillary works granted planning permission under Ref. 23/222 with modified site boundaries and minor revisions to design and location of 2-storey house including additional floor area

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2460685

• 7 Mar 2023Conditional

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

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23222

• 23 Nov 2022Conditional

  new one storey and a half, 4 bedroom dwelling. garage, new well, percolation area, new foul drainage and soil polishing filter system to current EPA guidelines treatment, surface water soakaways, landscaping, altered entrance and all associated site work

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 221241

• 14 Nov 2022N/a

  new one storey and a half, four bedroom dwelling, garage, new well, percolation area, new foul drainage and soil polishing filter system all to current EPA guidelines treatment, surface water soakways, landscaping, altered entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221207

• 7 Nov 2022N/a

  new one storey and a half, 4 bedroom dwelling, garage, percolation area, new foul drainage and soil polishing filter system all to current EPA guidelines treatment, surface water soakaways, landscaping, altered entrance and all associated site work

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221180

• 9 Dec 2020Conditional

  dwelling house, secondary sewerage treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage, new entrance, connection to existing water main and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201257

• 25 Nov 2020N/a

  dwelling house, secondary sewerage treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage, new entrance, connection to existing water main and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201200

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 Ballysize Lower.

Recorded monuments

• WI009-007001 Graveyard
  Description

  A level oval area (26m NE-SW; 14m NW-SE) at the NW edge of a marked slope overlooking a stream. Towards the SW side there is a rectangular area (c. 8.5m x 4m) defined by the poorly preserved foundations of a wall (WI009-007003-). Other small slabs in the vicinity of a stone cross (WI009-007001-) may be simple gravemarkers. There is no indication of any enclosing feature. (Hawkes 1938,156-7) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 13 December 2012 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 104/1940).

• WI009-007002 Cross
  Description

  Unringed granite cross (H. 1.22m) set in a square socket in a large natural granite slab known locally as 'the Bishop's Grave'. The extremities of the cross are damaged. Curved rebates occur on both faces of the shaft immediately beneath the arms and there is an equal armed cross within a circle inscribed on the lower E side of the shaft. The cross stands at the SW side of a graveyard (WI009-007001-). (Hawkes 1938, 156-7) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 13 December 2012 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 104/1940).

• WI009-007003 Church
  Description

  At the NW edge of a marked slope overlooking a stream. Towards the SW side of the graveyard (WI009-007001-) there is a rectangular area (c. 8.5m by 4m) defined by the poorly preserved foundations of a wall. This may be the site of a possible church. (Hawkes 1938,156-7) Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 13 December 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballysize 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 Ballysize Lower, 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 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 Ballysize 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 Ballysize Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballysize Lower · Bealach Saghais Íochtarach

Area

779,665 m² (77.97 ha, 192.66 acres)

Civil parish

Hollywood, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Hollywood, the unit of the census

Census 2022

820 people lived in 271 households in the Hollywood electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athgarvan, Ballysize Upper, Bannagroe, Blakestown Lower, Blakestown Upper, Glebe, Hollywood Demesne, Hollywood Lower, Kiernans Hill, Killerk, Silverhill Upper (Co. Kildare)

Placenames

Ballysize 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.