# Ballard Upper, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dunganstown, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Baile Ard Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 866,418 m² (86.64 ha, 214.1 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,886 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application 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/55367 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250044 - Centre: latitude 52.924066, longitude -6.131348 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballard Upper, from 356 m² to 511,045 m² (51.1 ha, 126.28 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1269013: 511,045 m² (51.1 ha, 126.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269013.md - Parcel 1275169: 110,188 m² (11.02 ha, 27.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275169.md - Parcel 1281177: 74,717 m² (7.47 ha, 18.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281177.md - Parcel 1281080: 42,604 m² (4.26 ha, 10.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281080.md - Parcel 1274883: 33,676 m² (3.37 ha, 8.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274883.md - Parcel 1275127: 27,618 m² (2.76 ha, 6.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275127.md - Parcel 1284044: 12,906 m² (1.29 ha, 3.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1284044.md - Parcel 1271470: 10,596 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271470.md - Parcel 3010502: 7,922 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3010502.md - Parcel 1274811: 6,911 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274811.md - Parcel 1260977: 6,886 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260977.md - Parcel 1273578: 5,975 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273578.md - Parcel 1260023: 2,464 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260023.md - Parcel 1294712: 2,230 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294712.md - Parcel 1280768: 2,206 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280768.md - Parcel 1286490: 1,968 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286490.md - Parcel 1270053: 1,919 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270053.md - Parcel 1270295: 1,797 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270295.md - Parcel 1271213: 915 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271213.md - Parcel 1281156: 830 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281156.md - Parcel 2655997: 356 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2655997.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 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 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 Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballard Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballard Upper. ## 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 Upper, about 1 in 10 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 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 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-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballard-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballard-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballard Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballard-lower.md - Ballinclare: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinclare.md - Ballycapple Hill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballycapple-hill.md - Breagura: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/breagura.md - Kilboy: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kilboy.md - Kilmacurra East: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kilmacurra-east.md - Westaston Hill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/westaston-hill.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-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballard-upper