Ballintombay
Townland in the civil parish of Arklow, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile an Toim Bheithe
- Area
- 51.3 ha
- 127 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 4,258 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres)
- Zoning
- G1
- Passive Open Space
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballintombay, from 733 m² to 346,245 m² (34.62 ha, 85.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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
- G1Passive Open Space (Open space, park)
Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Nov 2022N/a
Strategic Infrastructure Development to ABP for proposed development primarily comprising of the provision of a new 110 kV substation with Gas Insulator Switchgear (GIS) technology and two 110kV underground transmission cables (connecting to existing 220kV overhead lines to the northwest of the proposed substation) along with associated and ancillary works.
28 Jul 2020Conditional
(i) lean to extension (283sqm.) to existing building permitted under PRR 98/9110 and (ii) portacabin building for use as site office in connection with the applicants agricultural contracting business
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 20731
5 Oct 2018Conditional
garage and car port as constructed and all ancillary site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 181100
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 Ballintombay.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballintombay.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballintombay.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3329 (ZIP).
- 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
No address of the register names Ballintombay with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballintombay · Baile an Toim Bheithe
- Area
- 513,219 m² (51.32 ha, 126.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Arklow, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Arklow Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Arklow Rural electoral division: 1,415 people in 498 households; 80% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynattin, Ballyrooaun, Cooladangan, Knockanrahan Upper, Moneylane
- Placenames
- Ballintombay 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.