Ballymurtagh

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymurtagh, from 161 m² to 278,218 m² (27.82 ha, 68.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Ballymurtagh 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

• 20 Sept 2022Conditional

  demolition of existing dilapidated dwelling, the construction of a proposed new single storey dwelling, upgrade of effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, bored well, together with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221010

• 3 Apr 2019Conditional

  demolition of existing car port / garage and construction of a replacement garage, entrance gates and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19357

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 Ballymurtagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymurtagh.

Architectural heritage

• Avoca Copper and Sulphur Mines, building misc, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Bridge, built c.1860, carrying mine railway line, formerly associated with an open cast copper and sulphur mine. The bridge is constructed of rubble granite with roughly hewn voussoirs. It is single arched and carries a tramway over a dirt road.

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

Name

Ballymurtagh · Baile Mhuircheartaigh

Area

683,246 m² (68.32 ha, 168.83 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, Ballygahan Upper, Kilcashel

Placenames

Ballymurtagh 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.