Ballinacor

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinacor, from 32 m² to 294,151 m² (29.42 ha, 72.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Ballinacor 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.

• 24 Sept 2025N/a

  dwelling house, a garage, well, effluent treatment system to comply with current EPA requirements, new driveway from existing entrance onto laneway and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 25285

• 13 Mar 2024Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit & polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460152

• 3 Jan 2024Conditional

  1. Retention of construction of as built conservatory extension to the side 2. Retention of construction of as built utility and porch extension to front. 3. Retention of construction of as built garage. 4. Retention of external lean to covered area to rear and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2460003

• 19 Dec 2023N/a

  1. Retention of construction of as built conservatory extension to the side. 2. Retention of construction of as built utility and porch extension to front. 3. Retention of construction of as built garage. 4. Retention of external lean to covered area to rear and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2360515

• 18 Dec 2023N/a

  1. Retention of construction of as built conservatory extension to the side 2. Retention of construction of as built utility and porch extension to front. 3. Retention of construction of as built garage. 4. Retention of external lean to covered area to rear and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2360507

• 2 Apr 2019Conditional

  3 part single storey part 1 ½ storey houses and new vehicle entrance, new connection to public sewer along with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19356

• 18 Aug 2017Refused

  4 single storey houses and new vehicle entrance, new connection to public sewer along with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17998

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballinacor Wood 001749

Recorded monuments

• WI029-003 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a marked NE-facing slope overlooking the Avonbeg valley. Local tradition locates the 17th-century stronghold of Phelim McFeagh O'Byrne to this site. Not visible at ground level and no other supporting evidence. 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

• WI029-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle NE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 32m) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.4m). The site has been incorporated into the field boundary at the S and is faced externally with drystone-walling. No visible entrance, external fosse or internal features. 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

• WI029-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a marked NE-facing slope. Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a small circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 30m). Not visible at ground level. 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

• Saint Columba's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1800–1805 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey Catholic Church, dated 1801. The church is finished in render with moulded quoins and ashlar bellcote. Although the chancel projects slightly the building is more accurately described as "T"-plan. The timber doors are set within pointed-arch openings. Window openings are generally pointed arch-headed with leaded glazing. The pitched roof is finished with natural slate with cast-iron rainwater goods. The church is well set back behind a curved wall with square gate pillars with pyramidal caps and wrought-iron gates. It sits on a slight rise within its own grounds, which are partly in use as a graveyard.

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 Ballinacor, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinacor.

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

Name

Ballinacor · Baile na Corra

Area

8,579,434 m² (857.94 ha, 2,120.02 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinacor, and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor South

Electoral division

Ballinacor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

369 people lived in 119 households in the Ballinacor electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghavannagh (Ram), Ballinabarny, Ballinagappoge, Ballinanty, Ballinatone Upper, Ballintombay Lower, Ballycreen Upper, Clonerkin, Fananierin, Greenan Beg, Kirikee, Moneymeen, Mucklagh

Placenames

Ballinacor 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.