Ballyhad Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Rathdrum, barony of Ballinacor North, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Sheaid Íochtarach
- Area
- 105.3 ha
- 260 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 8,172 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhad Lower, from 832 m² to 298,641 m² (29.86 ha, 73.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhad Lower 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
17 Oct 2024N/a
the construction of a bungalow, new entrance off existing lane, new treatment system and percolation area to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460638
19 May 2017Conditional
removal of an existing septic tank and percolation system and the replacement of same with a new secondary treatment system and percolation area to current EPA guidelines and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17570
12 May 2017N/a
removal of an existing septic tank and percolation system and the replacement of same with a new secondary treatment system and percolation area to current EPA guidelines and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17538
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Vale of Clara (Rathdrum Wood) SAC 000733
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Vale Of Clara (Rathdrum Wood) 000733
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyhad Lower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyhad Lower.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyhad Lower.
- 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 Ballyhad Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyhad Lower · Baile Sheaid Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,052,916 m² (105.29 ha, 260.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathdrum, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor North
- Electoral division
- Ballinderry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballinderry electoral division: 508 people in 176 households; 82% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydowling, Ballyhad Upper, Clarabeg South, Copse, Cronybyrne, Stump of The Castle
- Placenames
- Ballyhad Lower 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.