Ballycullen
Townland in the civil parish of Rathnew, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Uí Chuilinn
- Area
- 498.7 ha
- 1,232 acres
- Land parcels
- 85
- registered freehold, median 17,375 m² (1.74 ha, 4.29 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycullen, from 205 m² to 388,649 m² (38.86 ha, 96.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballycullen 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Mar 2026Conditional
construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road, blocking up existing entrance and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660150
11 Feb 2026Conditional
revised house type on previously granted site under planning ref. no. 06/5235, retention of home studio/gym, retention of domestic storage sheds and associated works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2636
22 Nov 2021N/a
dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA Standards, stables unit, entrance and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211391
2 Nov 2021Conditional
(1) A proposed new circa 241 sqm extension to an existing 71sqm dwelling. (2) A proposed new garage. (3) A proposed new secondary treatment system to current EPA guidelines with a new percolation area to cater for the new proposed works, and all associated site works.
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211311
14 Oct 2021Conditional
new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211236
5 Aug 2021Conditional
for new two storey rear extension to existing dwelling, removal of existing side door in existing section of dwelling, removal of existing septic tank and installation of new wastewater system and soil polishing filter and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211020
17 Jul 2019Conditional
52.5 sqm single storey detached home office to the north east side of the existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19774
17 Apr 2018Conditional
stand alone 380 sqm slatted shed, 280 sqm slatted shed extension to existing lying and feeding shed, 200 sqm barn, extension to existing 250,000 gallon liquid slurry tank, by 80,000 gallons and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18397
20 Oct 2017Refused
permission and retention permission is being sought for the development comprising of (1) The importation of subsoil and topsoil for the purpose of land reclamation with a consequential benefit for an agricultural activity to include a 1 metre deep capping layer over an existing area (1.4670 hectares) and (2) the retention of existing subsoil and topsoil previously imported for the purpose of land reclamation for the consequential benefit for an agricultural activity. Access will be taken through and existing entrance onto the public road and along an existing access laneway. The development will be subject of an application to Wicklow County Council for a Waste Facility Permited
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171284
4 Aug 2017Refused
proposed construction of a new dwelling house and garage, on site treatments system and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17961
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Devil's Glen 000718
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballycullen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycullen.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3320 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballycullen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballycullen · Baile Uí Chuilinn
- Area
- 4,986,608 m² (498.66 ha, 1,232.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathnew, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Ballycullen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballycullen electoral division: 339 people in 128 households; 73% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghowle Lower, Aghowle Upper, Ballardbeg, Ballylusk, Kilmullin, Knockaphrumpa, Parkmore, Tiglin
- Placenames
- Ballycullen 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.