Ballyhubbock Lower
Ballyhubbock Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Baile Hobac Íochtarach.
- Area
- 59.3 ha
- 147 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 15,834 m² (1.58 ha, 3.91 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhubbock Lower, from 2,207 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 56,527 m² (5.65 ha, 13.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhubbock 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
18 Jun 2024Conditional
the erection of an extension of existing slatted cubicle shed to include a new slatted shed, a new underground slurry tank under existing dry store, new slatted cattle shed and dry store over soiled water tank, concrete yards, and ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24275
23 Feb 2024Conditional
a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area, bored well, new site entrance and associated driveway, all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460104
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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
Recorded monuments
- WI021-059 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a gentle S-facing slope in woodland. Circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) marked as an enclosure on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, and as an arc of the bank on the current edition. Not visible at ground level. 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
- Mount Slaney, farm house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1830, with flat-roofed porch and two-bay single-storey section to north. The walls are finished in painted render with moulded quoins, whilst both sections of the roof are slated and have stone parapets. Rendered chimneystacks to the original section. The roof of the porch is hidden by a granite-coped parapet. The entrance consists of a replacement partly glazed timber double door and the flat-headed windows have six over six timber sash frames, (some of which are replacements), and granite sills. Replacement extruded aluminium and uPVC rainwater goods. The farmhouse is situated within its own grounds, with outbuildings to the west side.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyhubbock Lower, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, 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 Ballyhubbock Lower.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballyhubbock Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyhubbock Lower · Baile Hobac Íochtarach
- Area
- 593,206 m² (59.32 ha, 146.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Electoral division
- Donaghmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 463 people lived in 148 households in the Donaghmore electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintruer Beg, Ballyhubbock Upper, Castleruddery Lower, Castlesallagh, Donaghmore, Eadestown North
- Placenames
- Ballyhubbock 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.