Ballygonnell
Ballygonnell is a townland in the civil parish of Drumkay, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Baile Gonaill.
- Area
- 80.5 ha
- 199 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 3,175 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygonnell, from 762 m² to 448,054 m² (44.81 ha, 110.72 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ballygonnell in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Jan 2022Conditional
(1) alterations and revisions to the elevations and layout of the as-built dwelling along with services on revised site boundaries as opposed to that granted under Planning Register Reference 11/4213 and (2) Permission to erect a single storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling along with all associated site development works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2257
4 Feb 2021Refused
1) Proposed single storey pet boarding and rehabilitation centre. 2) Provision for a second phase to include a small animal veterinary clinic. 3) Site access road, car parking, signage details. 4) New effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, 5) this new system is to replace existing plant associated with existing dwelling house and cater for new pet boarding, rehabilitation and veterinary clinic. 6) All associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2197
19 Jan 2021N/a
1) proposed single storey pet boarding and rehabilitation centre, 2) provision for a second phase to include a small animal veterinary clinic, 3) site access road, car parking, signage details, 4) new effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, 5) this new system is to replace existing plant associated with existing dwelling house and cater for new pet boarding, rehabilitation and veterinary clinic, 6) all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2129
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 Ballygonnell.
Recorded monuments
- WI031-059 Enclosure
Description
A tree-covered enclosure in pasture visible on aerial photographs (taken by Michael Moore on the 16 July 2006). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 17 July 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygonnell.
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 Ballygonnell, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3391 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballygonnell with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballygonnell · Baile Gonaill
- Area
- 804,909 m² (80.49 ha, 198.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumkay, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Wicklow Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 10,247 people lived in 3,334 households in the Wicklow Rural electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinaclogh, Ballinteskin, Ballynerrin Upper, Hawkstown Upper
- Placenames
- Ballygonnell 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.