Ballycore

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycore, from 672 m² to 288,756 m² (28.88 ha, 71.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballycore 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.

• 10 Feb 2020N/a

  bungalow, garage, on site treatment unit, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20120

• 17 Dec 2019N/a

  bungalow, garage, on site treatment unit, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 191349

• 16 Nov 2018Conditional

  an application area of 14.8 hectares. Extraction of sand and gravel (dry working) over an area of 11.5 hectares with processing that includes crushing, washing (closed water recycling system with associated silt storage lagoon) and screening and all ancillary works and structures, site facilities consisting of prefabricated office, canteen facility, WC, septic tank and percolation area, bunded and covered fuel tanks, hydrocarbon interceptor, weighbridge and office, aggregate quality testing lab, wheelwash and perimeter screening berms and fencing, access to the site will be via a new splayed entrance priority junction onto the R747 regional road with relocation of the existing percolation area granted under Planning Ref 14/1370, progressive restoration of the site to an agricultural after use, the proposed extraction operational period is for 13 years plus 2 year to complete restoration (total duration sought 15 years). An EIAR has been prepared in respect of the application

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181288

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: Ballycore Rath 001751

Recorded monuments

• WI020-009 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on level ground at the foot of a steep-sided ridge, with higher ground to the NW and NE. Circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) apparently defined by a fosse, visible as cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BGN 24). Ploughed out 'a long time ago', according to local information. Not visible at ground level. 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

• WI020-010 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  Situated at the SW end of a narrow steep-sided ridge. Oval platform with a level summit (dims. 20m NNW-SSE; 14m NNE-SSW; H 2.5-4m), separated from the bailey at the SW by a fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.8m). The bailey is a level trapezoidal area (max. dims. 32m WNW-ESE; 15m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-6m; int. H 1m), and an external fosse (max. Wth 5m; D 1m) from SE-W-NW with a further outer bank (max. Wth 5.5m; H 1.7m) at the SW. This fosse, which also encloses the motte along the NE, merges into a berm at the NW and SE along the edges of the ridge. There is a causeway (Wth 2m) across the fosse at the NE extremity. The motte and bailey form one component of a series of earthworks which enclose and divide the ridge summit for a distance of 550m. These include banks along the edge of the ridge, and lateral banks dividing the ridge from NNW-SSE. The most significant are those c. 75m NE of the motte which consist of two banks, 20m apart, cutting the SW end of ridge off from remainder and creating an enclosure around the motte to which three access ramps ascend (from the SW, NW and SE). The SW bank has a central entrance gap (recently widened). A possible moated site (WI020-025----) occurs within the defenses towards the NE. (CUCAP, AIC 86, BGN 24) 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 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 99/1940).

• WI020-010001 Field system
  Description

  On a steep-sided NE-SW ridge occupying an area of c. 14ha. A series of banks and fosses and trackways associated with a motte and bailey (WI020-010----) which lies at the SW end of the ridge and a possible moated site (WI020-025----) at the NE end. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 12 November 2012

• WI020-011 Burial ground
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level area just above the steep S-facing slope of the Bothoge River Valley. Quadrangular graveyard (dims. 38m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by iron railings and containing a small number of headstones, some dating to the early 18th century. There is no evidence for a church. 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

• WI020-025 Moated site
  Description

  Situated about 320m NE of a motte and bailey (WI020-010----) on the level summit of a steep-sided ridge. Rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 100m NE-SW; c. 70m NW-SE) defined by a fosse (Wth 7m; D 0.25-0.6m) which is not visible on the SE side. 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 Ballycore.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballycore.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballycore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballycore · Baile Chóir

Area

1,083,175 m² (108.32 ha, 267.66 acres)

Civil parish

Rathtoole, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Hartstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Hartstown electoral division: 270 people in 95 households; 91% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baronstown Lower, Knocknamuck Lower, Portersize (Co. Kildare), Rathtoole, Timolin (Co. Kildare), Whitehills

Placenames

Ballycore 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.