Ballycoog Lower

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycoog Lower, from 93 m² to 273,379 m² (27.34 ha, 67.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Ballycoog Lower 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.

• 23 Jun 2023Conditional

  1. as constructed dwelling, garage & boiler house. 2. Retention permission for revised boundaries and as constructed driveway. 3. Permission for extension to the front elevation. 4. Permission to remove existing bay window and replace with a new bay window. 5. Permission for new window on the front elevation. 6. Permission for 2no. roof lights to the front roof plain. 7. Permission for roof alteration to existing garage. 8. Permission to upgrade existing effluent treatment system to comply with current EPA guidelines

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23554

• 28 Feb 2020Conditional

  demolition of existing house and associated outbuildings, construct new single storey detached house, new on site foul treatment system, all above with associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20198

• 23 Jul 2019Conditional

  demolition of existing store and boiler house, two storey extension (65.63 sqm) to rear of existing dwelling, window at ground floor level to side elevation, new on site foul treatment system, all above with associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19794

• 20 Mar 2017Conditional

  1 no livestock underpass along with all associated site development works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17282

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Avoca River Valley 001748

Recorded monuments

• WI040-002 Church
  Description

  Situated on a gentle NE-facing slope. Rectangular structure (int. dims. 3.85m N-S; c. 8m E-W) defined at the W end by uncoursed rubble; the E end is represented only by part of the wall-base. There is a single window in the W gable with a low arch and another at the W end of the S wall. The door (now blocked) is towards the W end of the N wall. Between it and the W wall is a square niche 1.1m above the floor. There is a strong local tradition of restoration in the 1780s, and red brick was used in the windows. There is no indication of an enclosure or associated graveyard. Marked as 'R.C. Chapel (in Ruins)' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. 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: 17 December 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballycoog Lower, about 1 in 5 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 Ballycoog Lower.

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 Ballycoog Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballycoog Lower · Baile Chuag Íochtarach

Area

1,838,588 m² (183.86 ha, 454.32 acres)

Civil parish

Ballintemple, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Arklow Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,415 people lived in 498 households in the Arklow Rural electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintemple, Ballycoog Upper, Ballymorris Lower, Ballymorris Upper, Coolahullin, Knocknamohill, Templelusk

Placenames

Ballycoog Lower 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.