Ballinabarny North
Townland in the civil parish of Castlemacadam, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile na Bearna Thuaidh
- Area
- 122.1 ha
- 302 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 4,863 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinabarny North, from 26 m² to 236,333 m² (23.63 ha, 58.4 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballinabarny North 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
12 Jun 2025Conditional
construction of a new single storey detached dwelling, with separate detached single storey domestic garage, and new on-site waste-water treatment facility to current EPA standards, together with a new private well, and all ancillary site works at a site
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560441
17 Oct 2024Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto existing entrance of laneway which leads to the public road, upgrading existing entrance onto public road and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460642
16 Oct 2024N/a
the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto existing entrance of laneway which leads to the public road, upgrading existing entrance onto public road and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460634
27 Aug 2024Refused
(i) a new entrance (ii) existing entrance to be closed and made obsolete (iii) the importation of material to in-fill and re-contour the subject site, and all associated site development works. Once the importation is complete, the applicant will seed the land in line with Teagasc guidelines and return it to agricultural use. The Operational Phase will see the site being used as agricultural pastureland. The applicant proposes, subject to planning, to import clean greenfield soil and stone to remediate approximately 3.72ha. of the total site. The 3.72ha is divided into 4 distinct phases - Phase 1 is 1.82ha, Phase 2 is 0.58ha, Phase 3 is 0.66ha and Phase 4 is 0.66ha. A fill plan has been drawn up for the importation of 41,552tonnes to fill Phase 1, 25,243 tonnes to fill Phase 2, 28,596 tonnes to fill Phase 3, and 28,596tonnes to fill Phase 4, equating to a total of 123,987tonnes of soil and stone. Permission is being sought for a 5-year period and will be subject to a waste facility permit
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460521
6 Dec 2023N/a
dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23887
28 Nov 2023N/a
proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23872
1 Aug 2023N/a
proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance, driveway and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23624
27 Jun 2023N/a
land improvement works including the re-contouring of land by infilling with inert material and the installation of land drainage granted under PPR Ref. no. 18/39
Extension of duration · Wicklow County Council, 23561
7 Feb 2023Conditional
proposed change of use (the removal of condition 2(a) of planning register reference 01/5292) from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23101
22 Dec 2022N/a
New five-bedroom dwelling, upgrade of existing entrance onto public road, bored well, effluent disposal to current EPA standards, all associated ancillary site development works.
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221395
22 Aug 2022N/a
application to ABP for substitute consent for development that consists of a sand/gravel extraction pit including extraction areas, processing areas, stockpiling areas & ancillary works (circa 23.7 hectares). The development also includes a sand/gravel washing/screening plant & buildings comprising workshop/machinery shed, tools storage container, pump - house, 2 no. portable office buildings, 1 no. portable office/canteen/WC, Sand processing plant electrical control room, 3 no. storage containers, sand processing plant control cabin, bunded oil storage tanks, diesel generator container & electrical sub station (all totalling circa 376sqm) The application is accompanied by a remedial EIAR and remedial NIS
Permission · Wicklow County Council, SU2201
22 Mar 2022Conditional
consists of the continuation of use of an existing Waste Recycling Facility (previously approved under planning reg ref 12/6015 and 16/1434) to include acceptance, recovery and recycling of construction and demolition waste by crushing and screening of soils, stone, concrete and tarmacadam materials with a maximum annual throughput of 25,000 tonnes per annum. Permission is also sought for the continued use of mobile crushing and screening plant, stockpile areas, skip storage area, portable office and chemical toilet, and wheelwash and all ancillary activities necessary for the continuation of use of the development . The continued use of development will be subject to a waste facility permit
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22278
5 Jul 2021Conditional
233 sqm single storey dwelling, 48 sqm single storey garage, vehicular entrance via existing agricultural entrance, bored well, effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, all associated ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21791
10 Mar 2021Refused
deposition of soil and stone over an area of c.2.0 ha for the purposes of land improvement with an agricultural end use
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 21250
25 Feb 2021N/a
(a) New entrance. (b) New 233 sqm single storey dwelling. (c) New 90 sqm single storey garage. (d) New bored well. (e) New effluent disposal system to current EPA standards. (f) All associated / ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21179
16 Feb 2021N/a
for (a) new entrance, (b) new 233sqm single storey dwelling, (c) new 90sqm single storey garage (d) new bored well (e) new effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, (f) all associated/ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21136
15 Feb 2021Conditional
dwelling, garage, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, new entrance and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21139
22 Feb 2018Conditional
outdoor horse riding arena along with all associated site works and services
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18177
22 Jan 2018Conditional
land improvement works including the recontouring of land by infilling with inert material and the installation of land drainage
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 1839
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 Ballinabarny North.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinabarny North.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinabarny North.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 North.
- 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 North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinabarny North · Baile na Bearna Thuaidh
- Area
- 1,221,268 m² (122.13 ha, 301.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castlemacadam, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Cronebane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cronebane electoral division: 533 people in 195 households; 88% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinabarny South, Bolagh Lower, Kilmacoo, Kilmacrea Lower, Newbawn, Rockstown Upper, Sroughmore
- Placenames
- Ballinabarny North 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.