Ballingate
Townland in the civil parish of Carnew, barony of Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Buaile an Gheata
- Area
- 253.8 ha
- 627 acres
- Land parcels
- 70
- registered freehold, median 3,700 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballingate, from 25 m² to 277,035 m² (27.7 ha, 68.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Ballingate 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
24 Aug 2026N/a
a new dwelling house & garage, well, access via right of way over existing entrance & improvement works to existing entrance, new driveway, effluent treatment system to comply with current EPA requirements and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660751
31 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for the construction of an extension
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251403
23 Jun 2025Conditional
1) en-suite extension to the side of my existing dwelling and 2) permission for retention of domestic garage
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 25169
30 Sept 2024Refused
a single storey dwelling, detached garage, bored well, new entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460599
13 May 2024Refused
a single storey dwelling, detached garage, bored well, new entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460267
10 May 2024N/a
a single storey dwelling, detached garage, bored well, new entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460261
19 Aug 2022Conditional
single storey extension to existing dwelling house including a part demolition of existing dwelling, use of existing entrance with access off existing laneway, new percolation area and waste water treatment system, bored well and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22908
16 May 2022Conditional
construct a dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22520
11 May 2022Conditional
to construct a dwelling house with domestic garage, new effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, bored well and new site entrance along with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22508
21 Feb 2020Conditional
demolish existing dwelling ruin and construct fully serviced single storey replacement dwelling and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20173
4 Dec 2018Conditional
extension to side of dwelling house and site layout alterations
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181351
24 Sept 2018Conditional
change of use of part of existing domestic dwelling to commercial for the provision of dog boarding kennels, alterations to existing driveway and upgrading of existing sewage system and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181042
19 Sept 2018N/a
change of use of existing domestic dwelling to commercial for the provision of dog boarding kennels, alterations to existing driveway and upgrading of existing sewage system and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181035
27 Mar 2018Refused
change of use for part of existing domestic dwelling to commercial for the provision of dog boarding kennels and grooming business in existing single storey dormer dwelling and all associated alterations and ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18315
18 Sept 2017Conditional
balcony and external stairs to side of dwelling and conservatory to rear of dwelling. Retention of number of agricultural structures constructed on land
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 171131
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 Ballingate.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballingate.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballingate.
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 5 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 Ballingate.
- 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
- Ballingate, Carnew7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballingate · Buaile an Gheata
- Area
- 2,538,161 m² (253.82 ha, 627.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carnew, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelagh
- Electoral division
- Ballingate, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballingate electoral division: 415 people in 152 households; 93% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballingate Lower, Ballingate Upper, Ballynancoran (Co. Wexford), Coolmela or Prospect (Co. Wexford), Knocknalour (Co. Wexford), Tombreen
- Placenames
- Ballingate 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.