# Ballydonnell, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Redcross, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Dhónaill. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,681,955 m² (168.2 ha, 415.62 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 29,104 m² (2.91 ha, 7.19 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Redcross, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/redcross.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Ballyarthur, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,144 people lived in 397 households in the Ballyarthur electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55311 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250177 - Centre: latitude 52.88008, longitude -6.169486 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydonnell, from 45 m² to 447,434 m² (44.74 ha, 110.56 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1285878: 447,434 m² (44.74 ha, 110.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285878.md - Parcel 1285880: 306,415 m² (30.64 ha, 75.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285880.md - Parcel 1271068: 270,613 m² (27.06 ha, 66.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271068.md - Parcel 1278718: 185,317 m² (18.53 ha, 45.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278718.md - Parcel 1271067: 176,636 m² (17.66 ha, 43.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271067.md - Parcel 1285879: 148,806 m² (14.88 ha, 36.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285879.md - Parcel 1271498: 103,651 m² (10.37 ha, 25.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271498.md - Parcel 1259053: 29,104 m² (2.91 ha, 7.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1259053.md - Parcel 5409967: 6,071 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5409967.md - Parcel 1250351: 3,553 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1250351.md - Parcel 1297748: 2,742 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297748.md - Parcel 1296308: 1,275 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296308.md - Parcel 5410113: 695 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5410113.md - Parcel 5410093: 312 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5410093.md - Parcel 5410118: 45 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5410118.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballydonnell 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. - 17 Apr 2025, Wicklow County Council 2595: Conditional. Outline permission, 1 home. the construction of a single storey dwelling measuring approximately 150sqm, the construction of an approximately 45sqm garage/workshop building, the construction of a new entrance to the site, amendments to the existing farm entrance adjacent, construction of a new wastewater treatment system and well and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2595/0 - 17 Jul 2018, Wicklow County Council 18815: Conditional. Retention. agricultural shed with concrete apron, permission is also sought for grain store with associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18815/0 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 Ballydonnell. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballydonnell. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballydonnell. ## 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 Ballydonnell, 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3323, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3323.zip (ZIP). - 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/ballydonnell.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballydonnell.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballydonnell.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballydonnell 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) - Ballinvally (Valentine): https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinvally-valentine.md - Blindwood: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blindwood.md - Coolanearl: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/coolanearl.md - Knockanree Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockanree-upper.md - Oghil Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/oghil-upper.md - Redcross: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/redcross.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/ballydonnell - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballydonnell