# Ballyhook, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathbran, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Húc. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 853,659 m² (85.37 ha, 210.94 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,726 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application 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/54935 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250215 - Centre: latitude 52.999194, longitude -6.708346 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhook, from 1,321 m² to 486,653 m² (48.67 ha, 120.25 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1296212: 486,653 m² (48.67 ha, 120.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296212.md - Parcel 1263696: 296,203 m² (29.62 ha, 73.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263696.md - Parcel 1265173: 61,986 m² (6.2 ha, 15.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265173.md - Parcel 1300001: 2,726 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1300001.md - Parcel 1271675: 2,223 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271675.md - Parcel 1262664: 1,615 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262664.md - Parcel 5768118: 1,321 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5768118.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 2 Jan 2020, Wicklow County Council 204: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/204/0 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 Ballyhook. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyhook. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyhook. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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, low (inferred). - 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, 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.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyhook.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyhook.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyhook 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 Demesne: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyhook-demesne.md - Ballyhook Hill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyhook-hill.md - Freynestown Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/freynestown-upper.md - Grangecon Hill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/grangecon-hill.md - Grangecon Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/grangecon-lower.md - Griffinstown Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/griffinstown-lower.md - Griffinstown Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/griffinstown-upper.md - Rathbran: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rathbran.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 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballyhook