Ballygobban
Ballygobban is a townland in the civil parish of Moyne, barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Buaile Uí Ghobáin.
- Area
- 224.1 ha
- 554 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 3,538 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- service did not answer
- Planning
- —
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygobban, from 89 m² to 1,985,686 m² (198.57 ha, 490.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
The zoning service did not answer. Try again later.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
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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 Ballygobban.
Recorded monuments
- WI033-004 Enclosure
Description
Oval enclosure (max. dims. 40m N-S x 32m E-W) defined by a rubble bank (Wth 3m; H c. 1.5m). Built into a marked NW-facing slope. The site is now under forestry. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygobban.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballygobban, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballygobban with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballygobban · Buaile Uí Ghobáin
- Area
- 2,240,631 m² (224.06 ha, 553.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Coolballintaggart, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 528 people lived in 179 households in the Coolballintaggart electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghavannagh (Revell), Ballyteige, Barnameelia, Carrignamuck, Mucklagh, Sheilstown
- Placenames
- Ballygobban 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.