Ballinacor
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Shillelagh Ra), barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile na Corra Beag
- Area
- 70.1 ha
- 173 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 1,128 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinacor, from 6 m² to 317,461 m² (31.75 ha, 78.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Tinahely Town Plan, Wicklow · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Tinahely Town Plan, Wicklow · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Passive Open Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Tinahely Town Plan, Wicklow · 0 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
26 May 2026Conditional
1) permission to demolish an existing dwelling and 2) construct a replacement dwelling house with services and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660464
20 May 2026Conditional
the change of use of an existing ground floor unit (86m²) from light industrial / office use to a personal training gym
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660437
25 Apr 2026N/a
change of use of an existing ground floor unit (86m²) from light industrial / office use to a personal training gym
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660337
16 Apr 2026N/a
change of use of an existing ground floor unit (86m²) from light industrial / office use to a personal training gym
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660312
6 Mar 2023Conditional
for change of house type from two storey to single storey with changes to site layout plan consisting of change of vehicular entrance with associated works previously granted under planning register number 20/1311.
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 23214
11 Dec 2020Conditional
single storey extension to side and rear of existing dwelling house including drainage and ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 201271
10 Sept 2020Conditional
change of use from commercial to veterinary clinic and surgery with ancillary retail and for internal modifications
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20892
4 Mar 2019Conditional
detached domestic garage and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19231
6 Sept 2017Conditional
two storey extension to an existing dwelling including all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171080
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 Ballinacor.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinacor.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinacor.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinacor.
- 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 Ballinacor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinacor · Baile na Corra Beag
- Area
- 700,655 m² (70.07 ha, 173.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Shillelagh Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Tinahely, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tinahely electoral division: 1,634 people in 613 households; 73% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolafunshoge, Lugduff, Mangans, Rosbane, Tinahely, Whitefield
- Placenames
- Ballinacor 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.