Ballybla
Townland in the civil parish of Killiskey, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Blá
- Area
- 113 ha
- 279 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 52,448 m² (5.24 ha, 12.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybla, from 4,632 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres) to 925,445 m² (92.54 ha, 228.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Ballybla 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
21 Nov 2025Conditional
existing single storey cabin structure as constructed on site of existing farmstead for agricultural use
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560952
22 Sept 2025N/a
existing single storey cabin structure as constructed on site of existing farmstead for agricultural use
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560746
16 Sept 2025N/a
existing single storey cabin structure as constructed on site of existing farmstead for agricultural use
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560734
29 Aug 2025N/a
existing single storey cabin structure as constructed on site of existing farmstead for agricultural use
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560674
15 Jul 2022Refused
existing 2-bed residential unit for agri-tourism accommodation as constructed on-site of the existing farmstead, together with site access and associated site works. Planning permission is also sought for a new effluent treatment system to serve subject building, all together with associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 22790
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
- Special Area of Conservation: The Murrough Wetlands SAC 002249
- Special Protection Area: The Murrough cSPA 004186
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: The Murrough 000730
Recorded monuments
- WI019-041 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a gentle E-facing slope. Subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) visible as low earthwork on Ordnance Survey aerial photograph. (Swan 1996, fig. 6) 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: 29 November 2012 See linked image with aerial photograph taken from Swan, D. L. 1996 Archaeological assessment of area of proposed development at Killoughter, Co. Wicklow. Unpublished report. National Monuments Section, Heritage and Planning Division, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dublin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybla.
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_3399 (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 Ballybla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybla · Baile Blá
- Area
- 1,129,969 m² (113 ha, 279.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killiskey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Newcastle Lower, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Newcastle Lower electoral division: 2,472 people in 797 households; 77% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnacoyle Little, Castlegrange, Clonmannan
- Placenames
- Ballybla 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.