# Ballingate Upper, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Carnew, barony of Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Buaile an Gheata Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,447,109 m² (344.71 ha, 851.8 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,130 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Carnew, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/carnew.md - Barony: Shillelagh - Electoral division: Ballingate, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55796 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250119 - Centre: latitude 52.702135, longitude -6.563852 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballingate Upper, from 229 m² to 590,227 m² (59.02 ha, 145.85 acres); 36 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1280368: 590,227 m² (59.02 ha, 145.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280368.md - Parcel 2655553: 411,973 m² (41.2 ha, 101.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2655553.md - Parcel 1260889: 290,629 m² (29.06 ha, 71.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260889.md - Parcel 1284663: 259,867 m² (25.99 ha, 64.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1284663.md - Parcel 1266486: 221,089 m² (22.11 ha, 54.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1266486.md - Parcel 1275769: 187,915 m² (18.79 ha, 46.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275769.md - Parcel 1258119: 178,931 m² (17.89 ha, 44.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1258119.md - Parcel 1288801: 177,755 m² (17.78 ha, 43.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288801.md - Parcel 1269683: 113,719 m² (11.37 ha, 28.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269683.md - Parcel 1280366: 109,642 m² (10.96 ha, 27.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280366.md - Parcel 3341866: 108,995 m² (10.9 ha, 26.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3341866.md - Parcel 1293170: 101,852 m² (10.19 ha, 25.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1293170.md - Parcel 1264481: 88,937 m² (8.89 ha, 21.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1264481.md - Parcel 1275833: 71,256 m² (7.13 ha, 17.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275833.md - Parcel 1285804: 68,433 m² (6.84 ha, 16.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285804.md - Parcel 1275770: 60,066 m² (6.01 ha, 14.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275770.md - Parcel 2655551: 51,053 m² (5.11 ha, 12.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2655551.md - Parcel 1275765: 47,230 m² (4.72 ha, 11.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275765.md - Parcel 1264412: 39,671 m² (3.97 ha, 9.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1264412.md - Parcel 1255778: 38,470 m² (3.85 ha, 9.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1255778.md - Parcel 1296457: 24,270 m² (2.43 ha, 6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296457.md - Parcel 1539911: 20,976 m² (2.1 ha, 5.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1539911.md - Parcel 2534413: 14,216 m² (1.42 ha, 3.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2534413.md - Parcel 1278255: 13,927 m² (1.39 ha, 3.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278255.md - Parcel 5014396: 10,625 m² (1.06 ha, 2.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5014396.md - Parcel 1248371: 10,121 m² (1.01 ha, 2.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248371.md - Parcel 1266252: 7,477 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1266252.md - Parcel 2655552: 6,181 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2655552.md - Parcel 1266107: 4,477 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1266107.md - Parcel 1282019: 4,474 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282019.md - Parcel 1290324: 4,337 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1290324.md - Parcel 1248799: 4,315 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248799.md - Parcel 1284090: 4,270 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1284090.md - Parcel 1281481: 4,250 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281481.md - Parcel 1269882: 4,239 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269882.md - Parcel 1288451: 4,222 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288451.md - Parcel 2844491: 4,038 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2844491.md - Parcel 3484356: 3,985 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3484356.md - Parcel 4883614: 3,936 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4883614.md - Parcel 2655554: 3,870 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2655554.md - Parcel 1248518: 3,814 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248518.md - Parcel 1255553: 3,768 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1255553.md - Parcel 1273045: 3,631 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273045.md - Parcel 1250865: 3,435 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1250865.md - Parcel 4646569: 3,213 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4646569.md - Parcel 1257461: 3,117 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1257461.md - Parcel 6085009: 2,945 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6085009.md - Parcel 1250030: 2,938 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1250030.md - Parcel 1257884: 2,779 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1257884.md - Parcel 4120467: 2,541 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4120467.md - Parcel 1539888: 2,481 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1539888.md - Parcel 1293817: 2,467 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1293817.md - Parcel 1250259: 2,458 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1250259.md - Parcel 1266803: 2,404 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1266803.md - Parcel 1269888: 2,334 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269888.md - Parcel 1278893: 2,268 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278893.md - Parcel 6096177: 2,145 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6096177.md - Parcel 1539577: 2,053 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1539577.md - Parcel 1248798: 2,034 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248798.md - Parcel 1269050: 2,026 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269050.md - Parcel 1282609: 1,707 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282609.md - Parcel 1265954: 1,627 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265954.md - Parcel 1299001: 1,591 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1299001.md - Parcel 2743974: 1,324 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2743974.md - Parcel 1275864: 931 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275864.md - Parcel 2655550: 905 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2655550.md - Parcel 5550658: 789 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5550658.md - Parcel 1287950: 726 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1287950.md - Parcel 1273540: 602 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273540.md - Parcel 1287219: 323 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1287219.md - Parcel 1286518: 308 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286518.md - Parcel 1286150: 229 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286150.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 25 Feb 2025, Wicklow County Council 2543: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2543/0 - 1 Nov 2023, Wicklow County Council 23805: Refused. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/23805/0 - 28 Apr 2022, Wicklow County Council 22458: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22458/0 - 26 Aug 2020, Wicklow County Council 20836: Conditional. Permission. construct an extension to the side of existing dwelling house and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20836/0 - 25 May 2020, Wicklow County Council 20474: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20474/0 - 24 Aug 2017, Wicklow County Council 171023: N/a. Permission, 1 home. dwelling, garage, well, effluent treatment system to comply with current EPA standards, new entrance / driveway and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/171023/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC, site code 000781, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000781 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballingate Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballingate Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballingate-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballingate-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballingate-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Balisland: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/balisland.md - Ballingate: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballingate.md - Ballingate Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballingate-lower.md - Coolmela or Prospect (Co. Wexford): https://everytownland.com/wexford/coolmela-or-prospect.md - Drummin: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/drummin-250655.md - Glennashouk: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/glennashouk.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballingate-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballingate-upper