Ballyhad Upper

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhad Upper, from 665 m² to 279,858 m² (27.99 ha, 69.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhad Upper 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.

• 20 Jul 2018Conditional

  conversion and modification of garage into habitable accommodation to allow for the conversion of 2 existing dwellings into one singular dwelling, alterations to external elevations and internal alterations, replacement gates to vehicular entrance and modifications to increase height of front boundary wall, all associated site development and landscaping works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18837

• 5 Jul 2018N/a

  replacement gates to vehicular entrance & modifications to increase height of front boundary wall; replacement of existing connecting garage with habitable accommodation; removal of existing chimney; external fenestration modifications; internal modifications; all associated site development and landscaping works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18765

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

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

• WI030-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in a small natural hollow on gentle S-facing slope, and recently planted with conifers. Oval area (dims. 32m N-S; 29.7m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank and a slight external fosse most clearly defined at the S. No indication of an entrance or internal features. Pieces of iron slag are visible in the bank material. 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

• WI030-029 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Situated immediately NE of the summit of a low hill. Granite earthfast boulder with two basins, one V-shaped in section, in its exposed surface. (Price 1959, 164, no. 12) 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 Ballyhad Upper.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 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 Upper.

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.

No address of the register names Ballyhad Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballyhad Upper · Baile Sheaid Uachtarach

Area

837,810 m² (83.78 ha, 207.03 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, Ballydowling Hill, Ballyhad Lower, Ballysheeman, Clara More, Clarabeg South, Knockrath Little

Placenames

Ballyhad Upper 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.