# Ballybla, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killiskey, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Blá. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,129,969 m² (113 ha, 279.22 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 52,448 m² (5.24 ha, 12.96 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killiskey, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/killiskey.md - Barony: Newcastle - Electoral division: Newcastle Lower, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,472 people lived in 797 households in the Newcastle Lower electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 31% 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/55610 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250150 - Centre: latitude 53.032314, longitude -6.056139 (WGS 84) ## 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); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1278480: 925,445 m² (92.54 ha, 228.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278480.md - Parcel 1289331: 75,072 m² (7.51 ha, 18.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289331.md - Parcel 1292361: 52,448 m² (5.24 ha, 12.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292361.md - Parcel 1285192: 23,656 m² (2.37 ha, 5.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285192.md - Parcel 5081477: 4,632 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5081477.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 21 Nov 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560952: Conditional. Retention. existing single storey cabin structure as constructed on site of existing farmstead for agricultural use. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560952/0 - 22 Sept 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560746: N/a. Retention. existing single storey cabin structure as constructed on site of existing farmstead for agricultural use. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560746/0 - 16 Sept 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560734: N/a. Retention. existing single storey cabin structure as constructed on site of existing farmstead for agricultural use. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560734/0 - 29 Aug 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560674: N/a. Retention. existing single storey cabin structure as constructed on site of existing farmstead for agricultural use. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560674/0 - 15 Jul 2022, Wicklow County Council 22790: Refused. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22790/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: The Murrough Wetlands SAC, site code 002249, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002249 - Special Protection Area: The Murrough cSPA, site code 004186, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004186 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: The Murrough, site code 000730 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI019-041: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI019-041----. 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. 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybla. ## 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 Ballybla, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3399, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3399.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/ballybla.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballybla.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballybla.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Barnacoyle Little: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/barnacoyle-little.md - Castlegrange: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/castlegrange.md - Clonmannan: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/clonmannan.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/ballybla - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballybla