Ballinard

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinard, from 10,322 m² (1.03 ha, 2.55 acres) to 412,376 m² (41.24 ha, 101.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Ballinard 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.

• 29 Aug 2025N/a

  proposed single storey house, a wastewater treatment system & all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 25246

• 24 Jun 2024N/a

  a two storey house, domestic garage, a wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 24279

• 24 Jun 2024N/a

  a part single storey part two storey house, a wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 24280

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 Ballinard.

Recorded monuments

• WI021-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low natural hummock, on a gentle S-facing slope with steeper ground to the S. Circular area (int. diam. 30m; max. ext. diam. 45.3m NE-SW) with a naturally raised interior, defined by a large earth and gravel bank (Wth 6.5-9.5m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 2.6-3.6m) with slight traces of a fosse at the N and E. There are two gaps (Wth 2m) at the NW and S, either of which may be an original entrance. Trenches dug within the site may indicate gravel extraction. 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

• WI022-031 Standing stone
  Description

  On a W-facing slope on the SW lower slopes of Sugarloaf Mountain. In a forestry plantation with saplings recently planted. A granite standing stone (H 1.67m; Wth 0.52m; T 0.42m), long axis WSW-ENE, leaning slightly to E. Scars of wooden wedges on the NE angle indicated that the stone was split. (Further details on file). Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Claire Breen Date of upload: 17 December 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinard.

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 Ballinard, 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinard.

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 Ballinard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballinard · Baile an Aird

Area

1,332,342 m² (133.23 ha, 329.23 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Imael North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

257 people lived in 93 households in the Imael North electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinclea, Newpark, Snugborough, Sugarloaf

Placenames

Ballinard 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.