Balleeshal
Balleeshal is a townland in the civil parish of Ballykine, barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is An Baile Íseal.
- Area
- 104.1 ha
- 257 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 1,929 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balleeshal, from 67 m² to 354,784 m² (35.48 ha, 87.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Aughrim Town Plan, Wicklow · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Aug 2026N/a
1. retention permission for as constructed dwelling 2. retention permission for garage 3. retention permission for revised site boundaries 4. permission for extension to the side of existing dwelling 5. permission for relocation of 2no roof lights on the rear roof plane
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2660718
18 Jun 2026Conditional
erection of floodlights around two existing training/playing pitches, together with associated and auxiliary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660553
9 Jun 2026N/a
erection of floodlights around two existing training/playing pitches, together with associated and auxiliary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660509
10 Feb 2021Conditional
single storey extension to the side of my existing dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21117
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 Balleeshal.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Balleeshal.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Balleeshal.
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 Balleeshal, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3158 (ZIP).
- 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 Balleeshal with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Balleeshal · An Baile Íseal
- Area
- 1,040,519 m² (104.05 ha, 257.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballykine, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Aughrim, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,973 people lived in 655 households in the Aughrim electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughrim Lower, Aughrim Upper, Craffield, Roddenagh
- Placenames
- Balleeshal 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.