Ballycreen Lower

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycreen Lower, from 256 m² to 315,738 m² (31.57 ha, 78.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Ballycreen 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.

• 8 Apr 2026Refused

  demolition of an existing unapproved single-storey concrete block agricultural shed and the erection of a new farm building containing 200 sq. metres (which is 33 sq. metres less than the floorspace of the structure which is to be removed) and extending to a ridge height of 3.5 metres (which is 1.8 metres less than the height of the existing building). It is proposed to clad the new building in corrugated metal sheeting and to undertake additional planting which will, along with existing roadside vegetation and planting, screen the building. The development will be used as a dry goods agricultural store and animal shed only

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660278

• 24 Nov 2025Refused

  single-storey concrete block agricultural shed, permission to clad it in corrugated metal sheeting, which is to be screened in existing and proposed planting and permission to use this structure as a dry goods agricultural store only

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560953

• 26 Feb 2025Refused

  single-storey concrete block agricultural shed, permission to clad it in corrugated metal sheeting, and permission to construct a slurry tank, with associated site works and planting

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560125

• 17 Feb 2025N/a

  single-storey concrete block agricultural shed, and permission to clad it in corrugated metal sheeting, and associated site works and planting

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560097

• 4 Jul 2024Refused

  single storey agricultural shed and associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 24302

• 13 Sept 2023Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road, blocking up existing entrance and associate works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2360280

• 20 Oct 2022Conditional

  proposed waste water treatment system to EPA standards, and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221120

• 9 Feb 2021N/a

  dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, new entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21112

• 25 Feb 2020Conditional

  12 sqm agricultural structure shed used for two horses, previously granted for a limited period of ten years under grant of planning permission PRR 09/968 and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20189

• 11 Feb 2020N/a

  12 sqm agricultural structure shed used as shelter for 2 horses for a ten year period and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20125

• 17 Dec 2018Conditional

  as constructed dwelling and full permission to complete same along with well, garage, effluent treatment system to comply with current EPA requirements, removal of existing entrance and improvements to existing agricultural entrance and associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 181402

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballycreen Lower.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballycreen Lower.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycreen 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

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, low (inferred).

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3156 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballycreen Lower · Baile Críonaire Íochtarach

Area

1,562,943 m² (156.29 ha, 386.21 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinacor, and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor South

Electoral division

Ballinacor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

369 people lived in 119 households in the Ballinacor electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycreen Upper, Ballyshane, Macreddin West, Moneymeen, Sheeana More, Sheeanabeg (Whaley)

Placenames

Ballycreen 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.