Ballanagh
Townland in the civil parish of Castlemacadam, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Eanaigh
Parcel 1286743
- Area
- 2,429 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it, 225 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballanagh
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3293 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 171.6 ha
- 424 acres
- Land parcels
- 79
- registered freehold, median 458 m²
- Zoning
- R3
- Secondary Development Area
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballanagh, from 10 m² to 281,934 m² (28.19 ha, 69.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R3Secondary Development Area (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
Avoca Town Plan, Wicklow · 67 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
28 Aug 2025Conditional
construction of a dwelling and all associated works on site
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560671
4 Apr 2025Conditional
proposed first floor extension to the side of dwelling and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2578
19 Dec 2023Conditional
a) the relocation of and minor alterations to the rear extension previously granted permission under planning no. 066119, b) the construction of a detached domestic garage to the rear of the existing dwelling and c) all associated works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2360516
17 Dec 2023N/a
a) the relocation of and minor alterations to the rear extension previously granted permission under planning no. 066119, b) the construction of a detached domestic garage to the rear of the existing dwelling and c) all associated works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2360499
22 Nov 2022N/a
existing workshop/store at rear of residential property
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 221236
10 May 2022Conditional
the decommissioning and demolition of the existing Avoca Wastewater Treatment Plant, and the construction of a new Wastewater Treatment Plant to include: a new foul pump station, inlet works, storm tank, aeration tank, 2 no. final settlement tanks, sludge drying reed beds, 2 no. RAS/WAS Pump Stations, new administration building, final effluent outfall headwall, emergency flow headwall, surface water drainage settlement pond and outfall, and all ancillary works including pipework, pumps, sumps, chambers, air blowers and tanks;new access off the Tower Avenue : and all associated site development, site excavation and landscaping works, including fencing/boundary treatments, above and below ground
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22503
4 Mar 2021Conditional
dwelling and garage with services and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21223
2 Sept 2020Refused
bungalow, effluent treatment unit with discharge into public sewer and associated site works, revised location of access point from public road to adjoining Cherrybrook premises
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20866
12 Jun 2019N/a
bungalow, wastewater treatment system and associated site works and revised location of access point from public road to adjoining 'Cherrybrook' dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19640
24 May 2019N/a
bungalow, wastewater treatment system and associated site works, and revised location of access point from public road to adjoining ' Cherrybrook' dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19565
16 Jul 2018Refused
bungalow and associated site works, revised location of access point from public road to adjoining 'Cherrybrook' dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18808
11 Jul 2018N/a
bungalow and associated site works and for revised location of access point from public road to adjoining Cherrybrook dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18785
8 Jun 2018Conditional
three velux roof windows to attic storage space on front of bungalow
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18629
6 Feb 2018Conditional
and completion of sun room extension
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 18113
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Avoca River Valley 001748
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballanagh.
Architectural heritage
- Ballyarthur House, gate lodge, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay one and a half-storey gate lodge, built c.1840. The gate lodge is constructed in rubble fieldstone. The large ground floor window has Gothic tracery and is set within a large Tudor-arched recess, while those to the first floor are lancets. The pitched roof is finished with natural slate. It is set close to a roadside beside a large segmental-arched gate with octagonal tower and castellated parapet with machicolations.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3293 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballanagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballanagh · Baile Eanaigh
- Area
- 1,715,908 m² (171.59 ha, 424.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castlemacadam, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Ballyarthur, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyarthur electoral division: 1,144 people in 397 households; 77% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyarthur, Ballycooleen, Castlemacadam, Garnagowlan, Kilmagig Lower, Kilmagig Upper, Slievenavode
- Placenames
- Ballanagh 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.