Ballygahan Upper

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygahan Upper, from 68 m² to 289,055 m² (28.91 ha, 71.43 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 Ballygahan 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.

• 30 Jul 2026Conditional

  Retention of garden playroom structure of 24sqm & Permission for its change of use to short term accommodation. Retention permission of 40ft shipping container that is used for general storage of garden equipment.

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 26149

• 17 Jul 2026N/a

  garden playroom structure of 24m2 and change of use to short term accommodation , retention of40ft shipping container and change of use for general storage of garden equipment etc

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 26144

• 28 Aug 2023Conditional

  construction of dwelling (183sqm), installation of sewage treatment facility and percolation area and all ancillary works and landscaping

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23673

• 8 Aug 2023N/a

  construction of dwelling ( 183 sqm) installation of sewage treatment facility and percolation area and all ancillary works and landscaping

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23636

• 25 Jul 2022Refused

  the erection of a shed type structure for use as a personal gym

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22817

• 2 Feb 2022Conditional

  change of use of area previously used as machinery workshop / yard to use as a commercial bus parking depot

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2285

• 25 Jan 2022N/a

  change of use of area previously used as machinery workshop/yard to use as a commercial bus parking depot

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2254

• 21 Dec 2021Refused

  the erection of a shed structure for use as a personal gym

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211543

• 7 Dec 2021N/a

  erection of a shed structure for use as a personal gym

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211462

• 30 Mar 2021Conditional

  change of use (the removal of condition 1 of planning register reference 05/4369) from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21362

• 10 Nov 2020Refused

  change of use (the removal of condition 1 of planning register reference 05/4369) from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 201135

• 31 Aug 2020N/a

  A. retention of a storage shed (circa 252sqm) and B. the removal of condition 1 of planning registration reference 05/4369

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 20857

• 23 Jan 2017Conditional

  existing domestic garage, existing entrance to dwelling house and alterations to roadside boundary to provide sightlines from existing entrance, retention of existing garden store

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 1762

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 Ballygahan Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI035-040 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a dome-topped hill with extensive panoramic views. Circular site (int. diam. 17.9m N-S; max. ext. diam. 21m N-S) defined by an earthen bank and internal fosse (int. D 0.5-0.6m; Wth 2.7m). The bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 0.9-1m) consists mainly of earth and may have been retouched recently as the edges are very sharp and regular. The interior of the site is flat and is crossed by five lazy-beds. There is a causeway (Wth 1.8m) at the E opposite which two large boulders form an outer facing to the bank. A trigonometrical station is set on the bank immediately N of this point. Marked as an enclosure on the first edition OS 6-inch map. (Robinson 1937, 305-6) 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygahan 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 Ballygahan 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3264 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballygahan Upper · Baile Gatháin Uachtarach

Area

1,019,058 m² (101.91 ha, 251.81 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemacadam, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Ovoca, the unit of the census

Census 2022

728 people lived in 263 households in the Ovoca electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 10% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygahan Lower, Ballymoneen, Ballymurtagh, Kilcashel, Killeagh, Kilqueeny, Tinnahinch

Placenames

Ballygahan 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.