# Ballyarthur, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Castlemacadam, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Artúir. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,886,744 m² (188.67 ha, 466.22 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,080 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Castlemacadam, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/castlemacadam.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Ballyarthur, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,144 people lived in 397 households in the Ballyarthur electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55302 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250145 - Centre: latitude 52.833711, longitude -6.21822 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyarthur, from 1,332 m² to 100,474 m² (10.05 ha, 24.83 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1285455: 100,474 m² (10.05 ha, 24.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285455.md - Parcel 5108833: 40,611 m² (4.06 ha, 10.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5108833.md - Parcel 1256870: 12,807 m² (1.28 ha, 3.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256870.md - Parcel 1268676: 7,504 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268676.md - Parcel 5676941: 4,080 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5676941.md - Parcel 5762970: 4,075 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5762970.md - Parcel 5388532: 4,008 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5388532.md - Parcel 5826207: 3,208 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5826207.md - Parcel 1258158: 1,332 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1258158.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyarthur 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. - 11 Apr 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560277: Conditional. Retention. sunroom extension and additional first floor residential accommodation together with free standing storage outbuildings for uses ancillary to main house. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560277/0 - 6 Mar 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560152: N/a. Retention. sunroom extension and additional first floor residential accommodation together with free standing storage outbuildings for uses ancillary to main house. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560152/0 - 27 Jan 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560036: N/a. Retention. sunroom extension and additional first floor residential accommodation together with free standing storage outbuildings for uses ancillary to main house. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560036/0 - 3 Aug 2021, Wicklow County Council 21957: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage , new entrance and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21957/0 - 27 Aug 2019, Wicklow County Council 19945: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto lane and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19945/0 - 3 Mar 2017, Wicklow County Council 17223: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a bungalow with garage, well, new entrance off existing lane and for a new effluent treatment system to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17223/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Avoca River Valley, site code 001748 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI040-015: House - 16th/17th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI040-015----. Situated on level ground in undulating terrain above the steep eastern slopes of the Vale of Avoca. Late 17th-century two-storey house of five-bay construction, containing contemporary interior panelling. Modified during the early 19th century (Bence-Jones 1978, 19). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Ballyarthur House, hunting/fishing lodge, 1670–1690, Regional interest, registry number 16404004, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16404004. Detached five-bay two-storey over basement sporting lodge, built c.1680. The sporting lodge, which was re-fronted in the 19th century, is finished in render. The replacement panelled door is set within a projecting flat roofed porch with castellated parapet; this is set on a three-bay gabled breakfront. Window openings are flat headed with one over one timber sash frames; some are tripartite. The hipped roof is finished with natural slate and has cast-iron rainwater goods. The roof is partly hidden by a castellated parapet (added in the 19th century). Chimneystacks have plain caps and tall clay pots. Internally much of the original detailing has survived. To the rear there are stable blocks some of which are now derelict. The sporting lodge is set within a large wooded demesne. ## 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 Ballyarthur, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3294, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3294.zip (ZIP). - 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/ballyarthur.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyarthur.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyarthur.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyarthur 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) - Ballanagh: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballanagh.md - Garnagowlan: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/garnagowlan.md - Kilcarra West: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kilcarra-west.md - Killeagh: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/killeagh-250843.md - Knockanduff: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockanduff.md - Shelton Abbey: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/shelton-abbey.md - Slievenavode: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/slievenavode.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/ballyarthur - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballyarthur