# Ballygriffin, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Arklow, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Ghrífín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,066,040 m² (106.6 ha, 263.42 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,618 m² (1.16 ha, 2.87 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Arklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/arklow.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Arklow Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,415 people lived in 498 households in the Arklow Rural electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55147 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250206 - Centre: latitude 52.797449, longitude -6.212737 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygriffin, from 476 m² to 632,217 m² (63.22 ha, 156.22 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1263463: 632,217 m² (63.22 ha, 156.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263463.md - Parcel 1298989: 104,043 m² (10.4 ha, 25.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1298989.md - Parcel 1262559: 50,263 m² (5.03 ha, 12.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262559.md - Parcel 1289580: 49,291 m² (4.93 ha, 12.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289580.md - Parcel 1258898: 48,108 m² (4.81 ha, 11.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1258898.md - Parcel 1262561: 46,857 m² (4.69 ha, 11.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262561.md - Parcel 1297783: 46,375 m² (4.64 ha, 11.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297783.md - Parcel 5003511: 37,676 m² (3.77 ha, 9.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5003511.md - Parcel 5541932: 12,394 m² (1.24 ha, 3.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5541932.md - Parcel 1262556: 10,842 m² (1.08 ha, 2.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262556.md - Parcel 1296348: 7,278 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296348.md - Parcel 1279121: 4,923 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1279121.md - Parcel 1261338: 4,472 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1261338.md - Parcel 1271443: 3,988 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271443.md - Parcel 3304209: 3,664 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3304209.md - Parcel 1278804: 2,095 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278804.md - Parcel 1265442: 981 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265442.md - Parcel 5130995: 476 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5130995.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballygriffin in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 3 Aug 2023, Wicklow County Council 23630: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. amendments to roof design of previously approved house (Planning Ref No. 21/257) and for the inclusion of 2 No. Velux type windows on side elevation over kitchen area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/23630/0 - 12 Jul 2023, Wicklow County Council 23594: N/a. Permission. amendments to roof design and for the inclusion of 2 No. Velux type windows on side elevation over kitchen area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/23594/0 - 11 Mar 2021, Wicklow County Council 21257: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. detached bungalow with detached garage together with waste water treatment system to current EPA standards, on site bored well, new vehicular entrance onto main road and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21257/0 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 Ballygriffin. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI040-026: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI040-026----. Situated on a gentle E-facing slope. Circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) of which only the S part of the enclosing bank is preserved in a field boundary. 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 - WI040-027: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI040-027----. Situated on a very gentle SE-facing slope. Oval enclosure (dims. c. 30m x 25m) visible as cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AYJ 73). Not visible at ground level. Immediately to the NE is a smaller circular cropmark enclosure (diam. c. 10m). 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 - WI040-027001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI040-027001-. Situated on a very gentle SE-facing slope. Small circular cropmark enclosure (diam. c. 10m) visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AYJ 73). Not visible at ground level. Immediately NE of a larger oval enclosure (dims. c. 30m x 25m). 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: 19 September 2013 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygriffin. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballygriffin, about 1 in 20 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3296, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3296.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/ballygriffin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballygriffin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballygriffin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballygriffin 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) - Ballyduff North: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyduff-north.md - Ballyduff South: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyduff-south.md - Ballyrush: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyrush.md - Barnacleagh East: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/barnacleagh-east.md - Ecawn: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ecawn.md - Pollahoney: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/pollahoney.md - Thomastown: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/thomastown.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/ballygriffin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballygriffin