Ballygarret
Townland in the civil parish of Upper Newcastle, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Ghearóid
- Area
- 23.7 ha
- 58 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 1,007 m²
- Zoning
- G4
- Active Open Space
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygarret, from 31 m² to 162,867 m² (16.29 ha, 40.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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
- G4Active Open Space (Active open space)
Newtownmountkennedy Town Plan, Wicklow · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Newtownmountkennedy Town Plan, Wicklow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Newtownmountkennedy Town Plan, Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 May 2025Conditional
- change of the part two storey dwelling to a single storey dwelling; - A reduction in floor area from previously granted 315sqm to 173sqm and associated amendments to all elevations; - Reduction of number of rooflights; - Connection to public mains, sewage, and public services & associated drainage, all associated landscaping to front and rear gardens, perimeter fence and associated site development works as per previously granted permission
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560337
5 May 2023Conditional
existing entrance as constructed to a dwelling and associated works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23434
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballygarret.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballygarret.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygarret.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_3366 (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 Ballygarret with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballygarret · Baile Ghearóid
- Area
- 236,623 m² (23.66 ha, 58.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Upper Newcastle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Newcastle Upper, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Newcastle Upper electoral division: 4,790 people in 1,619 households; 82% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyronan, Kilmacullagh, Kilmullin, Kilquade, Mount Kennedy Demesne
- Placenames
- Ballygarret 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.