Ballyhook

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhook, from 1,321 m² to 486,653 m² (48.67 ha, 120.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Ballyhook 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.

• 2 Jan 2020Conditional

  alterations to bungalow constructed under Planning Reference 85/1072. The alterations are (1) conversion of first floor to bedroom accommodation (2) construction of single storey extension to the rear consisting of utility (3) single storey side extension consisting of games room / photo studio (4) construction of single storey garage constructed to side of existing dwelling (5) permission sought to upgrade existing effluent treatment system and all ancillary works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 204

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyhook.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyhook.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyhook.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Ballyhook.

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 Ballyhook with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballyhook · Baile Húc

Area

853,659 m² (85.37 ha, 210.94 acres)

Civil parish

Rathbran, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Stratford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Stratford electoral division: 463 people in 175 households; 80% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhook Demesne, Ballyhook Hill, Freynestown Upper, Grangecon Hill, Grangecon Lower, Griffinstown Lower, Griffinstown Upper, Rathbran

Placenames

Ballyhook 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.