Ballinapark
Townland in the civil parish of Castlemacadam, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile na Páirce
- Area
- 59.4 ha
- 147 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 6,079 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinapark, from 141 m² to 151,970 m² (15.2 ha, 37.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Ballinapark 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
8 Oct 2018Conditional
single storey extension to an existing dwelling, a new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181108
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 Ballinapark.
Recorded monuments
- WI040-063 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
In pasture, S of Ballinapark House located 40m to N. A cluster of three possible ring-barrows (WI040-063-/065----) located in field to S of Ballinapark House which are clearly visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13. Remains consist of a circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 11m) enclosed by a fosse and slight traces of an external bank. Possible barrow (WI040-064----) 8m to W and second barrow (WI040-065----) 15m to SW. These earthworks are clearly visible on Google earth orthoimages taken 30/09/2009. The sharpness and circularity of these cropmarks along with their close proximity to Ballinapark House may suggest that they could be designed landscape features or some other activity in the post-1700 period. It is possible that they may have formed by circular-shaped livestock ring-feeders although this is uncertain. The antiquity of these earthworks remains uncertain. See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken between 2009-2019 Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on details provided by Aoibheann Lambe Date of upload: 8 July 2020
- WI040-064 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
In pasture, S of Ballinapark House located 40m to N. A cluster of three possible ring-barrows (WI040-063-/065----) located in field to S of Ballinapark House which are clearly visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13. Remains consist of a circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 8m) enclosed by a fosse and slight traces of an external bank. Possible barrow (WI040-063----) 8m to E and second barrow (WI040-065----) immediately to SW. These earthworks are clearly visible on Google earth orthoimages taken 30/09/2009. The sharpness and circularity of these cropmarks along with their close proximity to Ballinapark House may suggest that they could be designed landscape features or some other activity in the post-1700 period. It is possible that they may have formed by circular-shaped livestock ring-feeders although this is uncertain. The antiquity of these earthworks remains uncertain. See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken between 2009-2019 Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on details provided by Aoibheann Lambe Date of upload: 8 July 2020
- WI040-065 Barrow - unclassified
Description
In pasture, S of Ballinapark House located 40m to N. A cluster of three possible ring-barrows (WI040-063-/065----) located in field to S of Ballinapark House which are clearly visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13. Remains consist of a semicircular-shaped area (approx. diam. 11m) enclosed by a fosse and slight traces of an external bank. Possible barrow (WI040-064----) immediately to N and second barrow (WI040-063----) 15m to NE. These earthworks are clearly visible on Google earth orthoimages taken 30/09/2009. The sharpness and circularity of these cropmarks along with their close proximity to Ballinapark House may suggest that they could be designed landscape features or some other activity in the post-1700 period. It is possible that they may have formed by circular-shaped livestock ring-feeders although this is uncertain. The antiquity of these earthworks remains uncertain. See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken between 2009-2019 Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on details provided by Aoibheann Lambe Date of upload: 8 July 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinapark.
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3265 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballinapark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinapark · Baile na Páirce
- Area
- 594,274 m² (59.43 ha, 146.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castlemacadam, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Ovoca, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ovoca electoral division: 728 people in 263 households; 74% of households own their home; 10% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinamona, Ballymoneen, Castlemacadam, Knocknamohill, Parknashaw
- Placenames
- Ballinapark 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.