# Ballybraid, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Knockrath, barony of Ballinacor North, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile na Brád. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,645,091 m² (364.51 ha, 900.72 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 23,224 m² (2.32 ha, 5.74 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application 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/55586 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250154 - Centre: latitude 52.97653, longitude -6.344129 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybraid, from 1,689 m² to 221,380 m² (22.14 ha, 54.7 acres); 4 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1268804: 221,380 m² (22.14 ha, 54.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268804.md - Parcel 1296229: 154,370 m² (15.44 ha, 38.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296229.md - Parcel 1271541: 83,122 m² (8.31 ha, 20.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271541.md - Parcel 1278513: 24,649 m² (2.46 ha, 6.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278513.md - Parcel 5154044: 21,799 m² (2.18 ha, 5.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5154044.md - Parcel 1264643: 21,215 m² (2.12 ha, 5.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1264643.md - Parcel 1289354: 3,824 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289354.md - Parcel 1297563: 1,689 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297563.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 6 Jan 2026, Wicklow County Council 263: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/263/0 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) - WI029-026: Burial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI029-026----. 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 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 Ballybraid. ## 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 Ballybraid, about 1 in 10 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 Ballybraid. - 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/ballybraid.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballybraid.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballybraid.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballybraid 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 - Ballyboy: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyboy.md - Carriglinneen: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/carriglinneen.md - Cullentragh Big: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cullentragh-big.md - Cullentragh Little: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cullentragh-little.md - Derrybawn: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/derrybawn.md - Lugduff: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/lugduff-251011.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/ballybraid - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballybraid