# Ballydowling, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathdrum, barony of Ballinacor North, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Uí Dhúllaing. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 822,388 m² (82.24 ha, 203.22 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 20,711 m² (2.07 ha, 5.12 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathdrum, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/rathdrum.md - Barony: Ballinacor North - Electoral division: Ballinderry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ballinderry electoral division: 508 people in 176 households; 82% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55292 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250183 - Centre: latitude 52.952067, longitude -6.261082 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydowling, from 2,210 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 223,955 m² (22.4 ha, 55.34 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1265553: 223,955 m² (22.4 ha, 55.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265553.md - Parcel 1262250: 158,152 m² (15.82 ha, 39.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262250.md - Parcel 1276845: 104,316 m² (10.43 ha, 25.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276845.md - Parcel 1294693: 98,915 m² (9.89 ha, 24.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294693.md - Parcel 1285360: 79,505 m² (7.95 ha, 19.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285360.md - Parcel 1289408: 60,949 m² (6.09 ha, 15.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289408.md - Parcel 1249088: 32,625 m² (3.26 ha, 8.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1249088.md - Parcel 1277310: 24,166 m² (2.42 ha, 5.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277310.md - Parcel 1276075: 17,256 m² (1.73 ha, 4.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276075.md - Parcel 2486777: 4,456 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2486777.md - Parcel 1274894: 4,245 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274894.md - Parcel 1271304: 3,306 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271304.md - Parcel 1282376: 2,754 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282376.md - Parcel 1284033: 2,682 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1284033.md - Parcel 1283044: 2,563 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283044.md - Parcel 1281951: 2,210 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281951.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballydowling 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. - 19 Nov 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560941: Conditional. Permission. construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road and associate works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560941/0 - 19 Jun 2025, Wicklow County Council 25164: N/a. Permission. proposed dormer dwelling and effluent plant and percolation area and approved site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/25164/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Vale of Clara (Rathdrum Wood) SAC, site code 000733, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000733 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Vale Of Clara (Rathdrum Wood), site code 000733 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI030-028: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI030-028----. Mentioned in the OS Name Books as 'an ancient Rath' in the SW corner of this townland. (Locational information J. van Ek) 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 Ballydowling. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballydowling. - 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/ballydowling-250183.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballydowling-250183.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballydowling-250183.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballydowling 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) - Ballinderry Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinderry-lower.md - Ballydowling Hill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballydowling-hill.md - Ballyhad Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyhad-lower.md - Ballyhad Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyhad-upper.md - Ballysheeman: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballysheeman.md - Copse: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/copse.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/ballydowling-250183 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballydowling-250183