Ballinvally (Valentine)
Townland in the civil parish of Castlemacadam, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile an Bhealaigh (Valentine)
- Area
- 154.8 ha
- 383 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 52,681 m² (5.27 ha, 13.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinvally (Valentine), from 610 m² to 305,011 m² (30.5 ha, 75.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Ballinvally (Valentine) 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
31 Oct 2023Conditional
changes to the development previously granted planning permission under planning application no. 18774 comprising the following; a) minor changes to the dwelling design, b) changes to the domestic garage design, c) alterations to the site layout and d) all associated works. Planning Permission is also sought for changes to the existing front boundary fencing to facilitate sight lines
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2360387
1 Nov 2021Conditional
proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works.
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211305
9 Jul 2018Conditional
changes to previously granted planning permission 17/1479 for changes to house type to consist of 4 bedroom dormer bungalow, garage, bored well, effluent treatment system and percolation area to comply with EPA 2009 and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18774
14 Dec 2017Conditional
two bedroom dwelling, garage, bored well, effluent treatment system and percolation area to comply with EPA 2009, new site entrance onto public road and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171479
1 Dec 2017N/a
single storey dwelling, garage, bored well, and effluent treatment system to comply with EPA 2009
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171431
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 Ballinvally (Valentine).
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinvally (Valentine).
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinvally (Valentine).
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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_3324 (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 Ballinvally (Valentine) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinvally (Valentine) · Baile an Bhealaigh (Valentine)
- Area
- 1,548,304 m² (154.83 ha, 382.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castlemacadam, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Ballyarthur, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyarthur electoral division: 1,144 people in 397 households; 77% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvally (Wisdom), Ballinvally Upper, Ballydonnell, Blindwood, Crone Upper, Knockanree Upper
- Placenames
- Ballinvally (Valentine) 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.