# Ballycoog Upper, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballintemple, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Chuag Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,254,691 m² (125.47 ha, 310.04 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 25,317 m² (2.53 ha, 6.26 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballintemple, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/ballintemple.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Arklow Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55185 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250163 - Centre: latitude 52.834348, longitude -6.282839 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycoog Upper, from 682 m² to 400,073 m² (40.01 ha, 98.86 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1267412: 400,073 m² (40.01 ha, 98.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1267412.md - Parcel 1267937: 367,177 m² (36.72 ha, 90.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1267937.md - Parcel 5447908: 191,599 m² (19.16 ha, 47.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5447908.md - Parcel 1290706: 89,278 m² (8.93 ha, 22.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1290706.md - Parcel 1257557: 78,518 m² (7.85 ha, 19.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1257557.md - Parcel 1265439: 76,887 m² (7.69 ha, 19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265439.md - Parcel 1260948: 25,317 m² (2.53 ha, 6.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260948.md - Parcel 1256050: 12,759 m² (1.28 ha, 3.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256050.md - Parcel 1258039: 6,655 m² (0.67 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1258039.md - Parcel 2673107: 3,359 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2673107.md - Parcel 1290060: 2,376 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1290060.md - Parcel 1250881: 1,618 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1250881.md - Parcel 1285448: 682 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285448.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballycoog Upper 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 23 Jun 2023, Wicklow County Council 23554: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/23554/0 - 20 Mar 2017, Wicklow County Council 17282: Conditional. Permission. 1 no livestock underpass along with all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17282/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballycoog Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI040-001: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI040-001----. A spring contained in an irregular stone-lined pool, at the foot of a rocky knoll beside the public road overlooking the Aughrim river. The name probably means 'well of the old town' (an tsean bhaile). 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 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 Ballycoog Upper. ## 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 Ballycoog Upper, 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 Ballycoog Upper. - 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/ballycoog-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballycoog-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballycoog-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballycoog Upper 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) - Ballintemple: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballintemple.md - Ballycoog Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballycoog-lower.md - Ballykillageer Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballykillageer-upper.md - Clone: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/clone.md - Coolahullin: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/coolahullin.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/ballycoog-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballycoog-upper