Ballybraid

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybraid, from 1,689 m² to 221,380 m² (22.14 ha, 54.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 4 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballybraid 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.

• 6 Jan 2026Conditional

  single-storey side extension to the north of existing dwelling (c. 24m²) consisting of living room, shower room and circulation, together with associated works to existing dwelling, together with upgrade works to existing effluent treatment system to current standards, all together with associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 263

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Wicklow Mountains SAC 002122
• Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA 004040

Recorded monuments

• WI029-026 Burial
  Description

  On a narrow terrace on a steep hillside. Known as 'The Twelve Graves', the traditional burial place of locals masacred by Cromwellian troops and marked by twelve recently erected commemorative wooden crosses (pers comm. Denis Gill). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 18 October 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybraid.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ballybraid, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Ballybraid.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

No address of the register names Ballybraid with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballybraid · Baile na Brád

Area

3,645,091 m² (364.51 ha, 900.72 acres)

Civil parish

Knockrath, and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor North

Electoral division

Knockrath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinafunshoge, Ballyboy, Carriglinneen, Cullentragh Big, Cullentragh Little, Derrybawn, Lugduff

Placenames

Ballybraid 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.