Ballingate Upper

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballingate Upper, from 229 m² to 590,227 m² (59.02 ha, 145.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Ballingate 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.

• 25 Feb 2025Conditional

  1) existing log cabin for use as a granny flat ancillary to existing dwelling house with upgrade of existing sewerage facilities and 2) retention of storage and hobby shed ancillary to the dwelling and for restoration of vintage vehicles and all associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2543

• 1 Nov 2023Refused

  existing log cabin for use as a granny flat ancillary to existing dwelling house with permission to upgrade existing sewerage facilities and all associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23805

• 28 Apr 2022Conditional

  retention of 46sqm extension to 44 sqm dwelling, retention of vehicular entrance on site, retention of existing wastewater treatment system and proposed new percolation area to EPA standards and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22458

• 26 Aug 2020Conditional

  construct an extension to the side of existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20836

• 25 May 2020Conditional

  dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20474

• 24 Aug 2017N/a

  dwelling, garage, well, effluent treatment system to comply with current EPA standards, new entrance / driveway and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171023

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballingate Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ballingate 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 Ballingate 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.

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

Name

Ballingate Upper · Buaile an Gheata Uachtarach

Area

3,447,109 m² (344.71 ha, 851.8 acres)

Civil parish

Carnew, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelagh

Electoral division

Ballingate, the unit of the census

Census 2022

415 people lived in 152 households in the Ballingate electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balisland, Ballingate, Ballingate Lower, Coolmela or Prospect (Co. Wexford), Drummin, Glennashouk

Placenames

Ballingate 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.