Balisland

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balisland, from 67 m² to 1,227,023 m² (122.7 ha, 303.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Balisland 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.

• 25 Jan 2024Conditional

  1) retention of 2no cattle sheds and associated works and 2) permission to construct a slatted cattle shed, concrete aprons and all associated site works in our existing farmyard

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2430

• 11 Dec 2019Conditional

  two storey dwelling house with a new road entrance, a percolation area and a new effluent treatment system to comply with current EPA requirements and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 191327

• 1 Mar 2019N/a

  two storey dwelling house over basement with a new road entrance, a percolation area and a new effluent treatment system to comply with current EPA requirements and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19222

• 12 Feb 2019N/a

  two storey dwelling house over basement with a new road entrance, percolation area and a new effluent treatment system to comply with current EPA requirements and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19134

• 20 Feb 2018Conditional

  external slatted tank, concrete aprons and all associated works and retention of existing cattle shed

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18169

• 9 Feb 2018N/a

  external slatted tank, concrete aprons and all associated works and retention of existing cattle shed

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18132

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

• WI046-001 Font
  Description

  This font came to the attention of the National Museum of Ireland in 1964. It was described as ‘an old stone font which was found near an old religeen in the townland of Balisland, near Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow’ which is ’14 ins. in width, 20 ins. in length and 7½ ins. in height, externally, and 11 ins. in width, 16 ins. in length and 5 ins. in depth, internally … rather round-shaped in the front on the outside and straight on each side, and the back seems to have been pulled away from a wall, …wide at top and rather round in bottom, with a hole at one side of bottom. It has no inscription or decoration on it, just plain stone’ (OPW file 1964). This record records the original location of the font at a burial ground (WI046-003----). The font has since been moved and its present location is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 17 October 2012

• WI046-003 Burial ground
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope in improved pasture. The junction of the field and lane is very overgrown. This triangular-shaped area (dims. c. 25m NE-SW along roadside; c. 18m WNW-ESE along SW boundary; c. 20m NNW-SSE) is delineated by a road running NE-SW along the E side, a stream running NW-SE along the SW side and a curving boundary connecting the two, as depicted on the 2nd (1909) ed. 6-inch OS map and on the current OSI base map. A font (WI046-001----/WI046-001001-) came to the attention of the National Museum of Ireland in 1964. It was described as ‘an old stone font which was found near an old religeen in the townland of Balisland, near Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow’ (OPW file 1964). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 October 2012

• WI047-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 34m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; H 0.2-0.5m) and an external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.3-0.6m). The entrance (Wth 3m) is at the NE. No indication of 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

• WI047-002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a gentle S-facing slope. Rectangular enclosure (dims. 70m NW-SE; 45m NE-SW) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3m; int. H lm; ext. H 1.3m) with external drystone facing. The entrance (Wth 2.4m) is towards the NE corner, between dressed granite pillars. The S end of the site is marked as a graveyard (dims. c. 35m NW-SE) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, and contains small number of headstones dating from the mid-18th century onwards. Known locally as the 'Yew Tree Graveyard'. A broken granite font with a subrectangular basin, V-shaped in section and a drain-hole, lies within the graveyard. A bullaun stone (WI047-002002-) was discovered in 2012 by the Yewtree graveyard Restoration Committee. 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: 22 August 2013

• WI047-002001 Font
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope, within a rectangular graveyard (WI047-002----). A broken granite font with a subrectangular basin, V-shaped in section and a drain-hole, lies within the graveyard. 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. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 October 2012

• WI047-002002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  A bullaun with a single hollow discovered in 2009 by the Yewtree Restoration Commitee amongst a group of stones from the boundary wall of the graveyard (WI047-002----). Now positioned on top of the boundary wall beside the stile leading into the graveyard. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 22 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Balisland, 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 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 Balisland.

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

Name

Balisland · Baile Uí Aoláin

Area

3,768,262 m² (376.83 ha, 931.16 acres)

Civil parish

Moyacomb, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelagh

Electoral division

Ballingate, the unit of the census

Census 2022

415 people lived in 152 households in the Ballingate electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingate Lower, Ballingate Upper, Ballyknocker, Ballyknocker East, Ballyknocker West, Barnamuinga, Coolross, Cronyhorn Lower, Cronyhorn Upper, Drummin, Minmore, Park

Placenames

Balisland 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.