Ballinapark

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinapark, from 1,674 m² to 727,657 m² (72.77 ha, 179.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G3Natural Areas (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 12 Sept 2022Refused

  part demolition of existing dwelling and construction of a new, single storey extension to the existing dwelling together with all necessary ancillary site works to facilitate this development

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22989

• 10 Mar 2022Conditional

  new, single storey extension to existing dwelling together with all necessary ancillary site works to facilitate this development

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22225

• 16 Feb 2022N/a

  new, single storey extension to existing dwelling together with all necessary ancillary site works to facilitate this development

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22156

• 8 Sept 2021Conditional

  modification of approved plans, ref. 20/195, to replace the previously approved open ended covered area to the side of the shed with a C. 58 sq.m. extension (with roller shutters at either end) to the side of the shed and to omit the approved car port

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211105

• 27 Feb 2020Conditional

  modifications to approved plans ref 01/4609 as follows (1) revised vehicular access gates and walls (2) partially realigned driveway, new gravel driveway and revised set down area in front of the dwelling (3) c 330 sqm shed with roof mounted solar panels, and associated hardstanding (4) provision of stone cladding at select locations on the elevations of the dwelling (5) 73 sqm extension and lower finished floor level at basement level and (6) minor variations to the fenestrations of the dwelling and additional copper fascia and (b) permission for (7) additional solar panels on the roof of the shed for retention permission (8) open ended covered area to the side of the shed for retention permission and (9) a car port and ancillary site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 20195

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 Ballinapark.

Recorded monuments

• WI025-003 Moated site
  Description

  Situated in a slight natural hollow in gently undulating terrain. Square enclosure (dims. 30m x 30m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; H 0.9-1.2m) and an external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 6.5m; D 1.7-2.5m) except at the NE angle where the bank is levelled. The moat is fed by a leat from a stream at the N side (Simpson 1994, 216). The interior is level and featureless, with no indication of an entrance. 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

• WI025-018 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Situated on a gentle S-facing slope. Long, low, two-storey house, built at the end of the 17th century but largely remodelled in the 18th and 19th centuries (Bence-Jones 1978, 18). 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

• Ballina Park House, farm house, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey farmhouse built c.1840. The footprint is an elongated rectangle, with a recent single-storey flat-roofed porch addition to the west side, a projecting bay to the south and another to the north. The farmhouse is finished in plain render with quoins. The entrance is set within the projecting bay to the north and consists of a panelled timber door with semi-circular fanlight, sidelights, and jambs with decorative brackets. The window openings are largely flat-headed and mainly filled with six over six timber sash frames, however there are some tripartite windows, and to the north elevation (above the entrance) there is a Diocletian window. The chimneystacks are in render with slightly corbelled caps and clay pots. To the south-west is a range of outbuildings which are grouped around a courtyard; the house is now entered through this area. The farmhouse is sited within a large wooded garden.

• Hunter's Hotel, hotel, 1710–1730 · National interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey with attic double-pile former coaching inn, built c.1720, with large two-storey rear return, now in use as a hotel. The building consists of the main double-pile section to the west with the return stretching out to the east, with a (relatively) small two-storey extension to the east end. To the north side there is a long, mainly two-storey, outbuilding which follows the curve of the road and encloses a large courtyard. The walls are finished in painted roughcast with part of the south elevation clad in slate, whilst all sections of the roof are pitched and gable-ended and covered in slate. The chimneystacks are rendered. The entrance consists of a panelled timber double door with sidelights and elliptical fanlight, all with decorative tracery, whilst the windows to front (which were probably enlarged in the late 1700s or early 1800s) are segmental headed with multiple-pane tripartite timber frames. The remaining windows are largely flat-headed with six over six timber sash frames, though some are tripartite and some have replacement timber casement frames. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The building is set on the roadside with small garden areas either side of the entrance enclosed with low rendered walls and plain wrought-iron railings. There is a cobbled threshold. Internally the layout appears largely intact, with a spacious hallway to the ground floor with rooms off to north and south and a long (relatively narrow) passage to the east with rooms off to north and south also. The first floor follows a similar layout, whilst the attic level has rooms opening off each other. The rooms have relatively low ceilings. Much original detailing has survived including an oak staircase with typical early 18th-century low guardrail with turned balusters and moulded banister and pegged newel posts, exposed roughly hewn oak ceiling and roof timbers, corner fireplaces (at least one of which has an early 1700s ‘eared’ surround), panelled doors and panelled window shutters.

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

About 1 in 20 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_3388 (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.

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

Name

Ballinapark · Baile na Páirce

Area

1,166,609 m² (116.66 ha, 288.28 acres)

Civil parish

Rathnew, and its townlands

Barony

Newcastle

Electoral division

Glenealy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glenealy electoral division: 2,861 people in 1,004 households; 76% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhenry, Broomfield, Coolawinnia, Cronykeery, Inchanappa North, Mountusher, Newrath, Rossana Lower

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.