Ballinabarny South
Townland in the civil parish of Castlemacadam, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile na Bearna Theas
- Area
- 45.1 ha
- 111 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 16,733 m² (1.67 ha, 4.13 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinabarny South, from 1,518 m² to 166,351 m² (16.64 ha, 41.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 South 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
6 Sept 2025Conditional
agricultural entrance and all associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560705
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
2 Aug 2024N/a
the importation of material to in-fill and re-contour the subject site at Ballinabarny South, Redcross, Wicklow. 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, 25,243tonnes to fill Phase 2, 28,596tonnes to fill Phase 3, and 28,596 to fill Phase 4, equating to a total of 123,987 tonnes 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, 2460474
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
21 Feb 2022N/a
dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22169
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 South.
Recorded monuments
- WI035-010 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a gentle E-facing slope but immediately above a sharp break in the slope. Circular area (diam. 21.1m; max. ext. diam. 33.5m) defined by a stony bank containing some earth (av. Wth 4m; H 0.65-1.1m; ext. H 0.65m). The structure of the bank shows as a domed pile of small stones. At the W and NE there are occasional blocks of stone set lengthwise along the lip of the bank. These may be the remnant of a faced wall set on the rubble bank. There is a sharp dip in the S sector of the interior. No indication of a fosse or entrance. Marked on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. 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 South.
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 South.
- 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 South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinabarny South · Baile na Bearna Theas
- Area
- 450,708 m² (45.07 ha, 111.37 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 North, Ballykean (Stringer), Kilmacoo, Kilmacrea Lower
- Placenames
- Ballinabarny South 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.