Balleese Upper

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balleese Upper, from 402 m² to 374,887 m² (37.49 ha, 92.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Balleese 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.

• 25 Aug 2026N/a

  1. construction of a 1. cubicle shed with internal slatted tanks for slurry storage and external feed passage, and 2. construction of new machinery and fodder storage shed

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660758

• 9 Dec 2025Conditional

  reclamation of land through the filling of material comprising clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone on a site having an area of 11.24 hectares, for the purpose of improvement of land for agricultural use, with the retention and use of existing site access road and wheel wash, all constructed by reference to PRR 18/74 together with temporary haul road and other ancillary site works including portable office/chemical toilet. The proposed development relates to an activity which requires a waste licence

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560996

• 20 Nov 2025N/a

  reclamation of land through the filling of material comprising clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone on a site having an area of 11.24 hectares, for the purpose of improvement of land for agricultural use, together with the retention and use of existing site access road and wheel wash, all constructed by reference to PRR 18/74 together with temporary haul road and other ancillary site works. The proposed development relates to an activity which requires a waste licence

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560949

• 23 Oct 2025Conditional

  importation and insertion of 85,000 tonnes of inert soil and stone as a non-waste by product over a four-year period, not exceeding 25,000 tonnes/annum, to improve 7 hectares of agricultural lands where: The principal activities associated with the proposed development are; • the infill of the 85,000 tonnes consists of inert soil & stone (i.e. soils, subsoils and stone) and will be utilised for agricultural purposes once complete. • the infill and restoration will be completed under an Article 27 of the European Communities (Waste Directive) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No 126 of 2011). • the proposed further use of the soil and stone fulfils all relevant product, environmental and health protection requirements for the specific use and will not lead to overall adverse environmental or human health impacts. Onsite equipment includes: • existing site entrance; • wheel wash; • site plant & equipment

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560854

• 24 Oct 2023Unconditional

  reclamation of land through the filling of material for the purpose of improvement of land, together with site access and ancillary works granted under PRR No. 18/74

  Extension of duration · Wicklow County Council, 23801

• 20 Oct 2023N/a

  the construction of a bungalow, new entrance off existing lane, new treatment system and percolation area to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360367

• 3 Jun 2021Conditional

  the reclamation of land through the filling of material comprising clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone on a site having an area of 4.41 hectares, for the purpose of improvement of land, together with site access and roadway and other ancillary site works. The proposed development relates to an activity, which requires a waste licence

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21672

• 2 Jul 2020Conditional

  milking parlour and dairy, collecting yard with an external slatted tank, drafting area and meal bin, cubicle shed with internal slurry slatted tanks and concrete yard, applying for new splayed stone wing walls to create wider farm entrance and for a setback of the roadside hedges on both sides to provide sufficient sightlines, applying for retention of an existing manure pit and all associated site development works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20623

• 27 Apr 2020N/a

  milking parlour and dairy, collecting yard with an external slatted tank, drafting area and meal bin, cubicle shed with internal slurry slatted tanks and concrete yard, applying for new splayed stone wing walls to create wider farm entrance and for a setback of the roadside hedges on both sides to provide sufficient sightlines, applying for retention of an existing manure pit and all associated site development works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20389

• 31 May 2019Conditional

  fully serviced single storey dwelling house with detached domestic garage, sewage treatment system in accordance with EPA 2009 and associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19592

• 26 Feb 2018Conditional

  extension to side of dwelling and car port

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 18196

• 31 Jan 2018Conditional

  reclamation of land through the filling of material comprising clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone on a site having an area of 14.38 hectares, for the purpose of improvement of land, together with site access and roadway and other ancillary site works. The proposed development relates to an activity which requires a waste licence

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 1874

• 15 Nov 2017N/a

  construction of a fully serviced dwelling house with detached domestic garage, sewage treatment system in accordance with EPA 2009 and associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171369

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 Balleese Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI030-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight eminence formed by a rock outcrop in gently undulating terrain. Circular area (diam. 28m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 1.1-1.5m; ext. H 1.5-2m), with drystone facing on either side, apparently tidied up relatively recently. The interior is studded with outcrop and hollows. No trace of an entrance. 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 Balleese 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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Balleese Upper · 0

Area

686,585 m² (68.66 ha, 169.66 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Rathdrum Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Rathdrum, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathdrum electoral division: 3,173 people in 1,108 households; 69% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balleese Lower, Keeloges, Mountlusk, Newbawn, Slieveroe

Placenames

Balleese 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.