Ballinacrow Lower

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinacrow Lower, from 338 m² to 402,700 m² (40.27 ha, 99.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballinacrow Lower 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.

• 28 Mar 2025Conditional

  construction of an overground slurry storage tank and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560225

• 14 Feb 2025N/a

  construction of an overground slurry storage tank and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560084

• 26 Jul 2017Conditional

  177.4 sqm bungalow, wastewater treatment system with raised percolation area to EPA 2009 standards, bored well, new vehicular entrance and all associated ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17910

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballinacrow Lower.

Recorded monuments

• WI021-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the S extremity of a natural spur with steep slopes on the S, E and W sides. Circular area (diam. 27.5m) defined by a poorly preserved earthen bank (Wth 3-4m; H 0.25m) and slight traces of an external fosse at the N. No indication of an entrance or internal features. 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

• WI021-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated immediately SW of a hill summit on a gentle S-facing slope. Oval area (dims. 34m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; H 0.3-0.9m) and an external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.15m). There is a berm between the bank and fosse NE-S-SW which widens to a maximum width of 4.7m at the E, opposite the entrance in the bank (Wth 2.5m). A causeway (Wth 3m) across the fosse at the NE leads onto the berm and may be an original feature. The interior has a fall of 2m from N to S and there are no other internal features. 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

• WI027-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 34m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-3m; int. H 1.2m at SW - 1.8m at NE; ext. H 1m) and an external fosse (Wth 3m at NE - 5m at SW; D 0.5-1m). The entrance (Wth 3m) is at the SW, and there is a modern gap at the SE. There are two rectangular structures (dims. 16.8m x 6.5m, and 11m x 4m) defined by low narrow banks in the interior (possibly not contemporary). 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 Ballinacrow Lower.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ballinacrow Lower, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2767 (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.

No address of the register names Ballinacrow Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballinacrow Lower · Baile na Croiche Íochtarach

Area

1,362,494 m² (136.25 ha, 336.68 acres)

Civil parish

Rathbran, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Tuckmill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

314 people lived in 104 households in the Tuckmill electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinacrow Upper, Eadestown Middle, Kill, Saundersgrove Hill, Tuckmill Lower

Placenames

Ballinacrow Lower 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.