Ballinacrow Upper

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinacrow Upper, from 26 m² to 142,132 m² (14.21 ha, 35.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Upper 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.

• 19 Jun 2024Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, upgrading existing entrance onto public road and associate works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460351

• 6 Jun 2023Conditional

  the development will consist of the demolition of an existing front porch and unfinished extension to the rear of the existing cottage. Retain and renovate the original cottage and the construction of new single storey extension to the front and a new two storey extension to the side, replacement of the existing septic tank with a new secondary waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter, new landscaping and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2360087

• 19 Jan 2021N/a

  10 year permission for Construction of up to 5 No. wind turbines with a maximum overall blade top height of 165m, with a transformer at each turbine and associated hard stand area; 1No. 38kV electrical substation and all associated infrastructure and works; 20kV underground cables facilitating the connection of turbines to 38kV electrical substation and all associated infrastructure and works; Circa 6.5km of 38kV underground cabling and all associated works along public roads to facilitate the connection of the proposed 38kV wind farm electrical substation to the existing Stratford 38/110kV substation referred to as 'the grid route', Provision of a heritage trail circa 1km in length to include associated information signage (located at the key heritage assets) and parking area; Replacement of existing grass verge with a new 1 metre wide footway at each bridge crossing along the 'grid route'; New site tracks, upgraded site tracks and all associated works; 1 No. 30m permanent meteorological mast and all associated infrastructure and works; A temporary site compound and all associated works; and All associated and ancillary site development works. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted with the application

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2128

• 17 Sept 2019Refused

  widening of existing entrance, construction of an access laneway and yard, placement of a mobile house unit for recreational non residential use, all associated with current and future hobby farming activities to be performed

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 191019

• 1 Aug 2019N/a

  modifications of an existing entrance, placement of a mobile house for recreational non residential use, construction of an access laneway and yard associated with current and future hobby farming activities

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 19848

• 8 Feb 2019Refused

  agricultural yard with access laneway and placement of mobile house for use as storage unit

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 19125

• 18 Jan 2019N/a

  an agricultural yard with access laneway and placement of a mobile house as a storage unit

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 1944

• 1 Feb 2018Conditional

  62.9 sqm single storey extension to the side of the Worship Hall, replacement of existing entrance door by a window, internal alterations, extending existing site and upgrading of the waste water treatment system together with all ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 1879

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

• WI021-027 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on the N edge of a small stream in a field boundary. Granite block (aligned NNE-SSW; H 2.1m; Wth 1.69m; T 1.1m) wedged upright by a small granite stone under the N edge of the base. 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 Upper.

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 Upper, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2766 (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 Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballinacrow Upper · Baile na Croiche Uachtarach

Area

1,041,621 m² (104.16 ha, 257.39 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 Lower, Ballintruer More, Eadestown Middle, Saundersgrove Hill, Stratford

Placenames

Ballinacrow Upper 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.