# Ballygarret, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Upper Newcastle, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Ghearóid. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 236,623 m² (23.66 ha, 58.47 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,007 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G4 Active Open Space, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Upper Newcastle, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/upper-newcastle.md - Barony: Newcastle - Electoral division: Newcastle Upper, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55650 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250202 - Centre: latitude 53.097033, longitude -6.095652 (WGS 84) ## 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); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1272007: 162,867 m² (16.29 ha, 40.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1272007.md - Parcel 2672466: 21,130 m² (2.11 ha, 5.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2672466.md - Parcel 4999999: 20,217 m² (2.02 ha, 5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4999999.md - Parcel 2672465: 11,106 m² (1.11 ha, 2.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2672465.md - Parcel 1284882: 4,504 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1284882.md - Parcel 1281288: 2,086 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281288.md - Parcel 1278965: 1,864 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278965.md - Parcel 1279907: 1,804 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1279907.md - Parcel 2731671: 1,595 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2731671.md - Parcel 2731699: 1,157 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2731699.md - Parcel 1299968: 1,060 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1299968.md - Parcel 2731684: 1,051 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2731684.md - Parcel 1275592: 1,035 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275592.md - Parcel 2731655: 979 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2731655.md - Parcel 2731690: 975 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2731690.md - Parcel 1289191: 640 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289191.md - Parcel 4999988: 525 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4999988.md - Parcel 4877440: 478 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4877440.md - Parcel 1261156: 433 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1261156.md - Parcel 1263741: 338 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263741.md - Parcel 2731697: 266 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2731697.md - Parcel 1265627: 176 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265627.md - Parcel 1298741: 111 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1298741.md - Parcel 2731678: 96 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2731678.md - Parcel 4877443: 75 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4877443.md - Parcel 1262338: 31 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262338.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G4 Active Open Space (Active open space): Newtownmountkennedy Town Plan, Wicklow; 4 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Portals/0/adam/Documents/5Sr2WLhhgE6kVFA9Q4eH1w/Link/Level%204%20Newtownmountkennedy%20Town%20Plan%202022%20-%202028.pdf - C2.1 Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment): Newtownmountkennedy Town Plan, Wicklow; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Portals/0/adam/Documents/5Sr2WLhhgE6kVFA9Q4eH1w/Link/Level%204%20Newtownmountkennedy%20Town%20Plan%202022%20-%202028.pdf - G1 Open Space (Open space, park): Newtownmountkennedy Town Plan, Wicklow; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Portals/0/adam/Documents/5Sr2WLhhgE6kVFA9Q4eH1w/Link/Level%204%20Newtownmountkennedy%20Town%20Plan%202022%20-%202028.pdf ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 7 May 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560337: Conditional. Permission. - 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560337/0 - 5 May 2023, Wicklow County Council 23434: Conditional. Retention. existing entrance as constructed to a dwelling and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/23434/0 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 Ballygarret. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballygarret. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygarret. ## 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, 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3366.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/ballygarret.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballygarret.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballygarret.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyronan: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyronan.md - Kilmacullagh: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kilmacullagh.md - Kilmullin: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kilmullin-250873.md - Kilquade: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kilquade.md - Mount Kennedy Demesne: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/mount-kennedy-demesne.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/ballygarret - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballygarret