Ballinderry Upper
Ballinderry Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Rathdrum, barony of Ballinacor North, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Baile an Doire Uachtarach.
- Area
- 133 ha
- 329 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 9,881 m² (0.99 ha, 2.44 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinderry Upper, from 1,186 m² to 299,956 m² (30 ha, 74.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballinderry 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Jan 2026Unconditional
section 42 - extension of appropriate period - 21/874 - dwelling, garage, bored well, wastewater treatment system to current EPA standards and all associated ancillary site works and services
Extension of duration · Wicklow County Council, 2610
10 Jun 2025Conditional
extension to living room at front of house and removal of condition 2 of PRR 91/7498
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560426
6 May 2025Conditional
proposed study room/playroom extension
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 25111
27 Sept 2023Conditional
the development of grid connection infrastructure comprising the laying of c. 4.43 kilometres (4,430 metres) of 38kV underground electricity cables in ducts and associated infrastructure substantially under public roads to connect the solar photovoltaic (“PV”) energy development on lands at Garrymore Upper, Rathdrum Co. Wicklow approved under Register Reference 16/1099: PL 27.247942 to a new electricity substation adjacent to the ESB Rathdrum 38kV Substation to the south of Zoetis Belgium SA, The Copse, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow (part of site that is subject to an Industrial Emissions Licence)
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360313
21 Jul 2021Conditional
dwelling, garage, bored well, wastewater treatment system to current EPA standards and all associated ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21874
24 Feb 2021Conditional
fully serviced split-level dwelling house with detached domestic garage and sewage treatment system in accordance with EPA 2009 and associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21176
15 May 2020Conditional
dwelling, garage, bored well, wastewater treatment system to current EPA standards and all associated ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20453
18 Aug 2017Conditional
bungalow, well, entrance and the provision of a driveway off existing road and for a new effluent treatment system to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171000
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 Ballinderry Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinderry Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinderry 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballinderry Upper, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinderry Upper.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballinderry Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinderry Upper · Baile an Doire Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,330,208 m² (133.02 ha, 328.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathdrum, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor North
- Electoral division
- Ballinderry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 508 people lived in 176 households in the Ballinderry electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinderry Lower, Ballintombay Lower, Ballintombay Upper, Ballygannon, Ballyteige, Greenan More, Tanseyclose
- Placenames
- Ballinderry 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.