Ballyvaltron

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvaltron, from 145 m² to 392,145 m² (39.21 ha, 96.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Ballyvaltron 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 Oct 2020Conditional

  proposed farm dwelling with waste water treatment system to EPA standards and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201066

• 29 Sept 2017Conditional

  two concrete tanks together with all associated site works. Each tank will have a capacity of 36 cubic metres and will be sited above ground

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171181

• 29 May 2017Conditional

  extension to side of cottage, new front window in place of front door to existing cottage, new wastewater treatment system to EPA 2009 standards to replace existing septic tank system and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17612

• 31 Mar 2017Conditional

  amendments to existing agricultural entrance and new access road for agricultural use, construct an agricultural shed with slatted tank for use as cubicle shed, construct a silage slab along with all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17339

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 Ballyvaltron.

Recorded monuments

• WI036-005 Church
  Description

  Situated on low-lying level ground at the foot of a SW-facing slope in a narrow triangular area between two roads. The site is occupied by a farmhouse, now a workshop, and outbuildings, and there is no trace of any earlier structure. Marked as '(Site of) R.C. Chapel' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. 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

• WI036-036 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  This is the record for the ditch excavated by Goorik Dehaene (E3237) on the route of the N11 road improvement scheme. The ditch was a shallow rounded cut filled with silts and clays, and extended beyond the excavated area. A radiocarbon date from the upper fill of the ditch was from the Iron Age. (Dehaene 2009k) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 18 January 2013

• WI036-038 Fulacht fia
  Description

  This is the record for the fulacht fia partially excavated by Goorik Dehaene (E3238) on the N11 route. The features excavated were a possible trough cut into the clay subsoil, and a burnt spread. Two radiocarbon dates from the trough fill place this feature in the mid/late Bronze Age. (Dehaene 2009l) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 7 January 2013

• WI036-039 Hut site
  Description

  This is the record for the excavation by Goorik Dehaene (E3239) which uncovered various features, including 'a stakehole and postholes and a pit ... associated with early Neolithic pottery and late Neolithic flint and quartz ... it is thought that they form the remnants of hut or shelter' (Dehaene 2009m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 10 January 2013

• WI036-040 Burnt mound
  Description

  This is the record for the excavation by Goorik Dehaene (E3239) which uncovered 'burnt mound activity comprising a trough and possible trough, 11 pits, a posthole, stakeholes, a pit/possible kiln and a burnt spread' (Dehaene 2009m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 10 January 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyvaltron, 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 Ballyvaltron.

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

Name

Ballyvaltron · Baile Bhailtrín

Area

1,403,049 m² (140.3 ha, 346.7 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

Ballinacor East, Ballyclogh North, Ballyhara, Ballynagran, Bonagrew, Dunganstown East, Dunganstown West, Kilmurry North, Kilmurry South

Placenames

Ballyvaltron 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.