Ballard

77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballard, from 66 m² to 273,426 m² (27.34 ha, 67.57 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballard 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.

• 13 Jun 2022Conditional

  a new dwelling, garage, blocking up existing entrance and installing a new entrance on to the public road, waste water treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22650

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  3 detached dormer bungalows with connection to public services and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 3 homes · Wicklow County Council, 211550

• 15 Oct 2021Conditional

  for a new dwelling, garage, blocking up existing entrance and installing a new entrance on to a public road, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new ell and associate works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211254

• 14 Dec 2020N/a

  proposed six two storey dwellings with connection to services and associated works including service road, footpath, boundaries and boundary treatments, public lighting, open space and landscaping and attenuation system

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201277

• 18 Sept 2019Conditional

  two semi detached dwellings with connection to services, entrance and site and associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 191025

• 14 Nov 2017Conditional

  covered silage pit, milking parlour / dairy / plant unit / cattle handling facility, calf shed, construction dirty water tank, silage effluent tank, rainwater harvesting tank, demolition of calf shed

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171367

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 Ballard.

Recorded monuments

• WI034-006 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle NW-facing slope. Circular enclosure (dims. c. 40m x 35m) marked only on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. 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

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Ballard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballard · An Baile Ard

Area

1,954,558 m² (195.46 ha, 482.98 acres)

Civil parish

Ballykine, and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor South

Electoral division

Ballinaclash, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinaclash electoral division: 696 people in 237 households; 81% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bahana (King), Bahana (Whaley), Ballinaclash, Ballinatone Lower, Ballycarrigeen, Ballyknockan Lower, Ballymoney, Ballyshane, Garrymore Lower, Threewells

Placenames

Ballard 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.