Ballardpark
Ballardpark is a townland in the civil parish of Knockrath, barony of Ballinacor North, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Páirc an Bhaile Aird.
- Area
- 89.8 ha
- 222 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 78,996 m² (7.9 ha, 19.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballardpark, from 2,257 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 264,050 m² (26.4 ha, 65.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballardpark 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Dec 2022Conditional
construction of a new dwelling, wastewater treatment unit & polishing filter, new well, use of entrance onto public road and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221278
3 Jun 2022Conditional
proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22606
1 Dec 2020Conditional
proposed new dwelling, new entrance, effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, bored well, together with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201216
4 Nov 2019N/a
proposed new dwelling, new entrance, effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, bored well together with all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 191194
24 Oct 2018N/a
construction of a dwelling and effluent treatment system, all together with associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181189
18 Oct 2018N/a
dwelling and effluent treatment system, all together with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 181159
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballardpark.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballardpark.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballardpark.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballardpark, about 1 in 5 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 Ballardpark.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballardpark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballardpark · Páirc an Bhaile Aird
- Area
- 898,020 m² (89.8 ha, 221.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Knockrath, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor North
- Electoral division
- Trooperstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 348 people lived in 116 households in the Trooperstown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballard, Ballylusk, Cullentragh Big, Knockrath Big
- Placenames
- Ballardpark 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.