Ballygannon

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygannon, from 42 m² to 270,065 m² (27.01 ha, 66.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P1Agriculture/Green Belt (Agriculture)
  Greystones-Delgany & Kilcoole Local Planning Framework (LPF), Wicklow · 22 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Active Open Space (Active open space)
  Greystones-Delgany & Kilcoole Local Planning Framework (LPF), Wicklow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
  Greystones-Delgany & Kilcoole Local Planning Framework (LPF), Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 15 Jan 2026N/a

  6 no. self-catering units with external decking, unit with office and sensory play room, wastewater treatment system, access driveway and parking area, and all associated site development works including drainage, pedestrian pathways, fencing, native hedging and landscaping

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660020

• 21 Nov 2025Conditional

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

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 25331

• 24 Oct 2025Refused

  works to facilitate infill and re-contouring of the subject lands using soil and subsoil to reclaim the land for agricultural infilling purposes. The infilled material will be seeded and grassed. All associated works and services and use of existing entrance onto public road

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560861

• 21 Oct 2025N/a

  6 no. self-catering units with external decking, unit with office and sensory play room, wastewater treatment system, access driveway and parking area, and all associated site development works including drainage, pedestrian pathways, fencing, native hedging and landscaping

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 25302

• 23 Apr 2025Refused

  proposed works which will consist of the following: Works to facilitate infill and recontouring of the subject lands using soil and subsoil to reclaim the land for agricultural infilling purposes. The infilled material will be seeded and grassed. All associated works and services and use of existing entrance onto public road. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will also be submitted along with the application. The application relates to an activity requiring a Waste Facility permit from Wicklow County Council or Article 27 approval from the EPA which will be applied for separately

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560303

• 15 Nov 2024Refused

  proposed dwelling, wastewater treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 24456

• 19 Aug 2024N/a

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

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 24345

• 17 Apr 2024Conditional

  change of use (removal of planning condition No. 2 of planning Ref. no. 00/2569) from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24181

• 2 Nov 2023Conditional

  new two storey dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, new site entrance, driveway and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23813

• 30 Oct 2020Conditional

  extension of existing storage shed with extension to connect to main house to form a home office and lounge area including ancillary works. Retention Permission is also sought for a recessed first floor balcony on front elevation (East) off the existing attic room

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 201097

• 11 Apr 2018Refused

  dwelling, installation of effluent disposal system, connection to public water supply and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18378

• 28 Mar 2018N/a

  dwelling, installation of effluent disposal system, connection to public water supply and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18318

• 28 Apr 2017Conditional

  Proposed landfill facility consisting of the importation and deposition of insert subsoil and topsoil for land profiling and re-contouring of agricultural land incluidng reseeding when complete, access gravel road and associates works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17480

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: The Murrough Wetlands SAC 002249
• Special Protection Area: The Murrough cSPA 004186
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: The Murrough 000730

Recorded monuments

• WI013-126 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Cropmark of bivallate circular-shaped enclosure (approx. overall diam. 55m; int. diam. 26m) with possible entrance gap at N visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 14 April 2020

• WI013-145 Signal tower
  Description

  Situated on level terrain (exact site unknown) on a low-lying site adjacent to E of the coastline, and c. 3.6kms to the ESE of the town of Delgany and c. 3.5kms SSE of Greystones (OD c. 22m). Land rises very gradually inland to the W with obstructed views in all directions. The surrounding landscape is characterised by arable and pastureland defined generally by linear field boundaries, and by a long sandy shoreline with an area of sandy hinterland located adjacent to the E (now occupied by railway line). The adjacent stations in the signal station\tower chain were located at Wicklow Head (WI031-112001-), located c. 17.3kms to the SSE, where the signal crew are thought to have been accommodated at an existing lighthouse, and at Dalkey Hill, Dublin (DU023-072----), located c. 17.1kms to the NNW, where the signal tower survives in an altered format. The possible\approximate site of this signal station at Ballygannon is located c. 1.9kms to the NE of a church site (WI013-029001-) with an associated graveyard (WI013-029002-), located close to the centre of the village of Kilcoole, and c. 3.5kms ESE of another church site (WI013-004001-) with an associated graveyard (WI013-004002-) located to the S end of the village of Delgany. The signal station\tower at Ballygannon Signal Station has been demolished, and its exact position and its original form is not known. It is not depicted on the Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map, surveyed 1838, which suggests it was removed at an early date. Kerrigan established that construction of a signal tower here began in 1805, and that it was still under construction in 1806. It is not clear if the signal tower was ever completed (Kerrigan 1995, 276). Kerrigan established that the signal mast had been erected by April 1806 (Kerrigan ibid). It is notable that this signal station\tower was demolished by the time of the Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map series. This also occurred at a number of signal station sites in County Waterford and at least one site in County Wexford, which is in contrast to the situation with the contemporary signal station sites along the NW, W and SW coastlines. There were concerns expressed (in writing) in 1811 by a Mr. Pope, Waterford Agent of the London Assurance Company, that the disused signal station\towers along the Waterford coastline were causing confusion for seafarers who were mistaking these for lighthouses (particularly Hook Head, Wexford) in poor weather, which led to a number of shipwrecks along the Waterford coastline (around Tramore in particular) in c. 1810. These concerns were apparently acted upon with the demolition of a signal station somewhere close to Tramore (probably at Brownstown Head; WA026-098----) by the end of 1811. Perhaps something similar happened with signal station at Ballygannon, Wicklow. The signal tower was part of a system of over 80 signal stations constructed by the British Board of Ordnance in the first decade of the nineteenth century to warn of the approach of a French invasion fleet. Signalling between sites was accomplished using a naval signal post. The system formed a continuous chain from Malin Head in Donegal to Dublin Bay. It was abandoned by the mid-1810s when the treat of a French invasion diminished (Kerrigan 1995, 157-66). Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Uploaded on: 10/10/22

Architectural heritage

• Ballygannon, farmyard complex, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of detached fifteen-bay two-storey rubble stone range, c.1750, possibly originally built as five three-bay two-storey units with single-bay double-height lower return (engine house?) to rear. Now in ruins. Pitched slate roof now gone with no rainwater goods surviving on squared rubble stone stepped eaves. Random rubble stone walls with remains of render over and red brick dressings including quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds (originally concealed), and fittings now missing. Series of five round-headed door openings with rendered and cut-stone surrounds, and fittings now missing. Set back from road in unkempt grounds. Gateway, c.1750, to site comprising pair of granite ashlar piers with cut-granite capping, wrought iron double gates, and rendered curved flanking walls incorporating square-headed pedestrian gateways.

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

Susceptibility 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_3395 (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.

No address of the register names Ballygannon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballygannon · Baile Gheanainn

Area

1,318,046 m² (131.8 ha, 325.7 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcoole, and its townlands

Barony

Newcastle

Electoral division

Kilcoole, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcoole electoral division: 12,163 people in 4,109 households; 74% of households own their home; 68% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydonarea, Ballynerrin

Placenames

Ballygannon 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.