Ballyboy
Townland in the civil parish of Knockrath, barony of Ballinacor North, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Bhuaile Bhuí
- Area
- 414.3 ha
- 1,024 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 8,915 m² (0.89 ha, 2.2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyboy, from 2,443 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) to 15,388 m² (1.54 ha, 3.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Ballyboy 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
19 Jul 2023Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling, entrance ( consisting of a revised house type, adjustment to house location from that as granted under PRR 20/1141), together with new entrance, wastewater treatment unit & polishing filter as granted under PRR 20/1141 and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2360163
12 Nov 2020Conditional
construction of a dwelling (as previously granted planning permission under PRR 15/790) with effluent treatment system, all together with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201141
16 Feb 2018Conditional
alterations and extensions incorporating alterations and extensions to ground floor lounge at rear (North East) including covered smoking area, and laundry, additional staff toilets, guest / staff accommodation suite to north west of building, retention of alterations to 2 no existing porches as previously granted under Planning Reg Ref 97/6453 and PRR 93/587 to front (south west) elevation to ensure current Building Regulations (part M) compliance, planning permission for proposed covered walkway and new porch at reception entrance, all together with miscellaneous internal alterations including all ancillary miscellaneous contingent works and site works associated with the completion / regularisation of works as granted under previous planning applications 01/4188, 97/6453 and 93/587 including revisions to existing car park layout, all together with associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18149
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: Wicklow Mountains SAC 002122
- Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA 004040
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyboy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyboy.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyboy.
- 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 Ballyboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyboy · An Bhuaile Bhuí
- Area
- 4,142,660 m² (414.27 ha, 1,023.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Knockrath, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor North
- Electoral division
- Knockrath, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Knockrath electoral division: 252 people in 85 households; 75% of households own their home; 18% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinafunshoge, Ballybraid, Carrawaystick, Carriglinneen, Clohernagh, Drumgoff
- Placenames
- Ballyboy 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.