Ballard Upper

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballard Upper, from 356 m² to 511,045 m² (51.1 ha, 126.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Ballard Upper 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.

• 1 Nov 2022Conditional

  removal of planning condition no. 3 of planning ref 01/5242 (from restricted use of dwelling to use by all classes of persons)

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221153

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 Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballard Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballard Upper, 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

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

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

Name

Ballard Upper · An Baile Ard Uachtarach

Area

866,418 m² (86.64 ha, 214.1 acres)

Civil parish

Dunganstown, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Dunganstown South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballard Lower, Ballinclare, Ballycapple Hill, Breagura, Kilboy, Kilmacurra East, Westaston Hill

Placenames

Ballard Upper 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.