Ballinagee
Townland in the civil parish of Powerscourt, barony of Rathdown, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile na Gaoithe
- Area
- 101 ha
- 250 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 4,054 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinagee, from 20 m² to 314,405 m² (31.44 ha, 77.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Ballinagee 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
3 Jun 2026N/a
extension constructed in 2002 consisting of a first floor extension to front containing one bedroom and alterations to existing layout including change of use of two bedrooms to one bedroom on ground floor below first floor extension including ancillary works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2660487
15 Dec 2025Conditional
The construction of a single-storey disability-accessible dwelling on family lands adjacent to the existing family home, with associated wastewater treatment system and a new vehicular entrance gate on the private access road.
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2561020
30 Apr 2025Conditional
alterations to an existing two storey dwelling comprising a single storey dining room extension to side (West)
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560325
24 Feb 2025N/a
alterations to an existing two storey dwelling comprising a single storey dining room extension to side (West)
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560112
20 Feb 2024Refused
construction of upgraded farm yard entrance gate including natural stone faced wing walls and pillars, and improvements to sightlines along road boundary
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460092
19 Feb 2024N/a
construction of upgraded farm yard entrance gate including natural stone faced wing walls and pillars, and improvements to sightlines along road boundary
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460086
28 Nov 2023Conditional
(A) The removal of the existing single storey extension to the front of the existing dwelling, (B) The construction of a single storey flat roof extension to the front of the existing dwelling with 2 no. associated roof lights (one to the front of the existing dwelling and one on the proposed extension), (C) The construction of a dormer to the rear of the existing pitched roof, (D) All associated site, landscaping and ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23868
20 Nov 2023N/a
(A) The removal of the existing single storey extension to the front of the existing dwelling. (B) The construction of a single storey flat roof extension to the front of the existing dwelling with 2no. associated roof lights (one to the front of the existing dwelling and one on the proposed extension). (C) The construction of a dormer to the rear of the existing pitched roof. (D) All associated site, landscaping and ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23847
15 Nov 2023N/a
(A) The removal of the existing single storey extension to the front of the existing dwelling.(B) The construction of a single storey flat roof extension to the front of the existing dwelling with 2 No. associated roof lights (one to the front of the existing dwelling and one on the proposed extension). (C) The construction of a dormer to the rear of the existing pitched roof. (D) All associated site, landscaping and ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23840
4 Mar 2020Conditional
remodelling of existing house to include demolition of existing conservatory, extension to the side, the conversion and extension of existing garage to habitable space, with amendments to all elevations. Construction of a new domestic garage, widening of the existing entrance, new wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20217
21 Feb 2020N/a
remodelling of existing house to include demolition of existing conservatory, extension to the side, the conversion and extension of existing garage to habitable space, with amendments to all elevations, construction of a new domestic garage, widening of the existing entrance, new wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20169
26 Jun 2018Conditional
works consisting of alterations to previously approved application (planning ref: 15/424) to omit permitted new first floor extension and replace with single storey flat and pitched roof extension to the side and rear of the existing house, all associated internal alterations, drainage and site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18702
5 Jun 2018N/a
alterations to previously approved application (planning ref 15/424) to omit permitted new first floor extension and replace with single storey flat and pitched roof extension to the side and rear of the existing house, all associated internal alterations, drainage and site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18607
3 Apr 2017Conditional
replacement of existing septic tank and percolation area with a new on site domestic wastewater treatment system and associated site development works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17358
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Powerscourt Waterfall 001767
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Powerscourt Woodland 001768
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinagee.
Architectural heritage
- Valclusa, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey over basement house, built, c.1820. The house is "U"-shaped with the front wing to the west. The house is finished in render with moulded quoins. The front panelled door is set within a segmental-headed opening and has flanking semi-circular headed sidelights; it sits within a slightly advancing rusticated bay. To either side there are canted bays. Window openings are generally flat-headed with timber sash frames. Frames are a mixture of single, paired and tripartite. The hipped roof is finished in natural slate with cast-iron rainwater goods. Chimneystacks are in brick with boldly corbelled stone cap and clay pots. The house sits at the head of a long driveway within a large wooded garden. The driveway has stout square gate pillars with shallow pyramidal caps and cast-iron gates.
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, 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 Ballinagee.
- 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 Ballinagee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinagee · Baile na Gaoithe
- Area
- 1,010,377 m² (101.04 ha, 249.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Powerscourt, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathdown
- Electoral division
- Powerscourt, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Powerscourt electoral division: 889 people in 283 households; 86% of households own their home; 18% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bahana, Coolakay, Deerpark, Longhill Commons, Powerscourt Demesne
- Placenames
- Ballinagee 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.