# Ballyboy, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Knockrath, barony of Ballinacor North, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Bhuaile Bhuí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 4,142,660 m² (414.27 ha, 1,023.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,915 m² (0.89 ha, 2.2 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Knockrath, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/knockrath.md - Barony: Ballinacor North - Electoral division: Knockrath, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 252 people lived in 85 households in the Knockrath electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55585 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250151 - Centre: latitude 52.968157, longitude -6.361306 (WGS 84) ## 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); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2529346: 15,388 m² (1.54 ha, 3.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2529346.md - Parcel 1278572: 2,443 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278572.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 19 Jul 2023, Wicklow County Council 2360163: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360163/0 - 12 Nov 2020, Wicklow County Council 201141: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a dwelling (as previously granted planning permission under PRR 15/790) with effluent treatment system, all together with associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/201141/0 - 16 Feb 2018, Wicklow County Council 18149: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18149/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Wicklow Mountains SAC, site code 002122, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002122 - Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA, site code 004040, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004040 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyboy. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyboy. ## 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 Ballyboy, about 1 in 5 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: 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, 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/ballyboy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyboy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyboy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinafunshoge: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinafunshoge.md - Ballybraid: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballybraid.md - Carrawaystick: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/carrawaystick.md - Carriglinneen: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/carriglinneen.md - Clohernagh: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/clohernagh.md - Drumgoff: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/drumgoff.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/ballyboy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballyboy