# Ballard Lower, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dunganstown, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Baile Ard Íochtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 256,736 m² (25.67 ha, 63.44 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,042 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dunganstown, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/dunganstown.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Dunganstown South, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 954 people lived in 320 households in the Dunganstown South electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55366 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250043 - Centre: latitude 52.92403, longitude -6.119269 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballard Lower, from 65 m² to 40,760 m² (4.08 ha, 10.07 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4907514: 40,760 m² (4.08 ha, 10.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4907514.md - Parcel 5548461: 30,123 m² (3.01 ha, 7.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5548461.md - Parcel 4907480: 28,947 m² (2.89 ha, 7.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4907480.md - Parcel 1290803: 25,708 m² (2.57 ha, 6.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1290803.md - Parcel 1298010: 25,643 m² (2.56 ha, 6.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1298010.md - Parcel 5529042: 22,202 m² (2.22 ha, 5.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5529042.md - Parcel 1250240: 15,671 m² (1.57 ha, 3.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1250240.md - Parcel 1277238: 13,382 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277238.md - Parcel 2427746: 3,704 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2427746.md - Parcel 1297228: 3,629 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297228.md - Parcel 1298150: 3,169 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1298150.md - Parcel 1261469: 2,915 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1261469.md - Parcel 1298193: 2,482 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1298193.md - Parcel 1266349: 2,358 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1266349.md - Parcel 3904769: 2,038 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3904769.md - Parcel 1261623: 1,971 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1261623.md - Parcel 1262020: 1,937 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262020.md - Parcel 1296719: 793 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296719.md - Parcel 1260696: 394 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260696.md - Parcel 1296832: 213 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296832.md - Parcel 1262542: 201 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262542.md - Parcel 4787593: 65 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4787593.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballard Lower in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 14 Nov 2025, Wicklow County Council 25322: Conditional. Retention. extension to the side of dwelling and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/25322/0 - 1 Nov 2022, Wicklow County Council 221153: Conditional. Permission. removal of planning condition no. 3 of planning ref 01/5242 (from restricted use of dwelling to use by all classes of persons). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/221153/0 - 21 Sept 2021, Wicklow County Council 211151: Conditional. Permission. insertion of a new 49m2 toilet block within the internal courtyard of the existing building and the change of use of the 28m2 first floor of the development from Residential to staff welfare areas solely related to the Ground Floor Operations. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/211151/0 - 12 Aug 2021, Wicklow County Council 21999: N/a. Permission. insertion of a new 49m2 toilet block within the internal courtyard of the existing building and the change of use of the 28m2 first floor of the development from Residential to Restaurant for the purposes of staff welfare areas solely related to the ground floor. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21999/0 - 6 Oct 2020, Wicklow County Council 20982: Refused. Permission. the insertion of a new 49m2 toilet block within the internal courtyard of the existing building and the change of use of the 425m2 first floor of the development from residential to restaurant/function room. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20982/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballard Lower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI031-094: Pit, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI031-094----. This is the record for the pit excavated by Ellen O'Carroll (E3244) on the N11 road improvement scheme. The pit measuring 1.05m by 0.9m in diameter and 0.11m in depth. It had a single fill and there were no finds to suggest a date or function. (O'Carroll 2009g) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 17 January 2013 - WI031-095: Burnt spread, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI031-095----. This is the record for the burnt spread excavated by Goorik Dehaene (E3245) on the N11 road improvement scheme. The burnt spread comprised two small, shallow burnt spreads in the west of the site. The pit comprised an irregular shallow cut with a single fill. The possible post-hole was in the centre of the site. An east–west-aligned field drain was located in the north of the site. (Dehaene 2009n) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 17 January 2013 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballard Lower. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballard Lower, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Ballard Lower. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballard-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballard-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballard-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballard Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballard Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballard-upper.md - Ballinameesda Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinameesda-lower.md - Breagura: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/breagura.md - Kilboy: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kilboy.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballard-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballard-lower