Ballinabarny
Townland in the civil parish of Knockrath, barony of Ballinacor North, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile na Bearna
- Area
- 210.1 ha
- 519 acres
- Land parcels
- 93
- registered freehold, median 3,962 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
93 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinabarny, from 59 m² to 578,342 m² (57.83 ha, 142.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballinabarny 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
27 May 2026N/a
construct a single storey dwelling, accessed via existing lane, new waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660468
18 May 2026N/a
construct a single storey dwelling, accessed via existing lane, new waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660427
1 Aug 2025Conditional
amendment to planning permission ref: 23/498 for retention permission for demolition and rebuild of existing bungalow and for permission for garage and revised layout for waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter all on revised site outline
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560591
14 Jun 2024Conditional
proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 24270
31 May 2023Conditional
demolition of lean-to and extension to existing bungalow and construction of new stepped single storey extension, upgraded vehicular entrance, new waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated landscaping works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23498
2 Feb 2021Conditional
an extension to existing dwelling and associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2190
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballinacor Wood 001749
Recorded monuments
- WI029-004 Ecclesiastical site
Description
Situated on level ground with SW-facing slopes above and below the site. Gwynn and Hadcock (1970, 276) state that this is the site of an early 17th-century Franciscan monastery, but there is no other evidence and no local memory of any remains. Not visible at ground level. 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 Ballinabarny.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Ballinabarny.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballinabarny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinabarny · Baile na Bearna
- Area
- 2,101,054 m² (210.11 ha, 519.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Knockrath, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor North
- Electoral division
- Ballinderry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballinderry electoral division: 508 people in 176 households; 82% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinacor, Ballintombay Lower, Ballintombay Upper, Kirikee
- Placenames
- Ballinabarny 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.