# Ballyhook Hill, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathbran, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Cnoc Bhaile Húc. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,097,246 m² (109.72 ha, 271.14 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,340 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathbran, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/rathbran.md - Barony: Talbotstown Upper - Electoral division: Stratford, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 463 people lived in 175 households in the Stratford electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54937 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250217 - Centre: latitude 52.993947, longitude -6.693783 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhook Hill, from 151 m² to 546,951 m² (54.7 ha, 135.15 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1272309: 546,951 m² (54.7 ha, 135.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1272309.md - Parcel 1285648: 276,103 m² (27.61 ha, 68.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285648.md - Parcel 1277317: 177,003 m² (17.7 ha, 43.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277317.md - Parcel 1292794: 49,084 m² (4.91 ha, 12.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292794.md - Parcel 1255496: 14,052 m² (1.41 ha, 3.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1255496.md - Parcel 4910428: 8,729 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4910428.md - Parcel 5085458: 6,453 m² (0.65 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5085458.md - Parcel 1286076: 4,204 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286076.md - Parcel 1269310: 2,477 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269310.md - Parcel 1282935: 2,423 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282935.md - Parcel 1266956: 2,124 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1266956.md - Parcel 1262534: 2,025 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262534.md - Parcel 1296576: 1,933 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296576.md - Parcel 1285217: 1,917 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285217.md - Parcel 5183110: 188 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5183110.md - Parcel 2674151: 151 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2674151.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhook Hill 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) No planning application touches the townland of Ballyhook Hill in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Ballyhook Hill. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI021-024: Building, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI021-024----. On the summit of steep-sided Ballyhook hill. Listed as ‘Castle’ in the SMR (1986) and as ‘Building, possible, site’ in the RMP (1995). Indicated as a rectangular structure (c. 20m x 8m) and named ‘Stratford Castle (in ruins)’ on the 1839 and 1910 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1928, 94) refer to the local belief that this was a ‘fowling house’ built by Edward, Earl of Aldborough, and not a castle. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 5 December 2012 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 Ballyhook Hill. ## 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 Ballyhook Hill, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyhook Hill. - 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/ballyhook-hill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyhook-hill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyhook-hill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyhook Hill 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) - Ballyhook: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyhook.md - Ballyhook Demesne: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyhook-demesne.md - Gibraltar: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/gibraltar.md - Manger: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/manger.md - Rathbran: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rathbran.md - Scurlogue: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/scurlogue.md - Stratford: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/stratford.md - Winetavern: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/winetavern.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/ballyhook-hill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballyhook-hill