# Ballygahan Lower, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Castlemacadam, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Gatháin Íochtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 367,539 m² (36.75 ha, 90.82 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,483 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Castlemacadam, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/castlemacadam.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Ovoca, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ovoca electoral division: 728 people in 263 households; 74% of households own their home; 10% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55233 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250196 - Centre: latitude 52.87021, longitude -6.221427 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygahan Lower, from 177 m² to 27,376 m² (2.74 ha, 6.76 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5537936: 27,376 m² (2.74 ha, 6.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5537936.md - Parcel 5537951: 14,637 m² (1.46 ha, 3.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5537951.md - Parcel 1265409: 14,609 m² (1.46 ha, 3.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265409.md - Parcel 1265788: 2,247 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265788.md - Parcel 5585018: 1,910 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5585018.md - Parcel 5214217: 1,629 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5214217.md - Parcel 3325108: 1,483 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3325108.md - Parcel 5844412: 1,314 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5844412.md - Parcel 5537959: 923 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5537959.md - Parcel 5089253: 832 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5089253.md - Parcel 5585016: 759 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5585016.md - Parcel 5405022: 629 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5405022.md - Parcel 5585019: 177 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5585019.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballygahan Lower 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 20 Sept 2022, Wicklow County Council 221010: Conditional. Permission. demolition of existing dilapidated dwelling, the construction of a proposed new single storey dwelling, upgrade of effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, bored well, together with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/221010/0 - 25 Jul 2022, Wicklow County Council 22817: Refused. Permission. the erection of a shed type structure for use as a personal gym. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22817/0 - 21 Dec 2021, Wicklow County Council 211543: Refused. Permission. the erection of a shed structure for use as a personal gym. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/211543/0 - 11 Mar 2021, Wicklow County Council 21253: Conditional. Permission. (1) A 63.90 m2 single storey extension to the front of the existing dwelling. (2) A 33.75 m2 art studio extension to the existing 28.13 m2 garage. (3) A 140.74 m2 multi purpose shed and (4) all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21253/0 - 16 Aug 2017, Wicklow County Council 17992: Refused. Retention. existing entrance, a driveway and a 40 sqm mobile home to be used as a small wild animal rescue centre. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17992/0 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 Ballygahan Lower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballygahan Lower. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygahan Lower. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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_3264, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3264.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/ballygahan-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballygahan-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballygahan-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballygahan Lower 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) - Ballygahan Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballygahan-upper.md - Ballymurtagh: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballymurtagh.md - Cherrymount: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cherrymount.md - Kilcashel: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kilcashel.md - Tigroney West: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/tigroney-west.md - Tinnahinch: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/tinnahinch.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/ballygahan-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballygahan-lower