Ballyhubbock Upper

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhubbock Upper, from 938 m² to 330,483 m² (33.05 ha, 81.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhubbock 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.

• 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

• 5 Jan 2023Conditional

  construction of (1) cow cubicle shed with underground slurry storage (2) cattle shed and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 235

• 8 Dec 2022N/a

  construction of (i) cow cubicle shed with underground slurry storage (2) cattle shed and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221311

• 25 Feb 2021Conditional

  (1) construction of cattle and cubicle shed (2) construction of slurry tank (3) laying a concrete slab for silage and concrete yard, associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21187

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 Ballyhubbock Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI021-080004 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on the NNW edge of the summit of Spinans Hill, within Spinans Hill hillfort (WI027-078002-) which lies within the larger hillfort complex (WI027-078001-/WI021-080001-), with extensive view in all directions. A circular cairn (diam. c. 27m; H 1.5-2.5m) consisting of a loose pile of stones of various sizes, partly denuded due to the robbing of stones for wall building. It is surrounded by five small cairns (diams. c. 4.5-8m), at a distance of 11-54m, which may be clearance cairns. 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. Revised by: Mary Tunney Date of revision: 11 December 2012

• WI021-080006 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on the NNW edge of the summit of Spinans Hill, within Spinans Hill hillfort (WI027-078002-) which lies within the larger hillfort complex (WI027-078001-/WI021-080001-), with extensive view in all directions. One of five unclassified cairns (WI021-080003-, WI021-080007-, WI021-080008-, WI021-080009-) close to a larger cairn (WI021-080004-). This cairn (diam. 7m) is c. 30m to the NNE of the larger cairn and comprises a pile of loose stone among which are some small boulders. There is a hollow in the centre. (Grogan no. 1, SMR file) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 December 2012

• WI021-080007 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on the NNW edge of the summit of Spinans Hill, within Spinans Hill hillfort (WI027-078002-) which lies within the larger hillfort complex (WI027-078001-/WI021-080001-), with extensive view in all directions. One of five unclassified cairns (WI021-080003-, WI021-080006-, WI021-080008-, WI021-080009-) close to a larger cairn (WI021-080004-). This cairn (diam. c. 8m), lying c. 60m NNE of the large cairn, comprises a pile of loose stones among which are some small boulders. There is a hollow in the centre. (Grogan no. 2, SMR file) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 December 2012

• WI021-080008 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on the NNW edge of the summit of Spinans Hill, within Spinans Hill hillfort (WI027-078002-) which lies within the larger hillfort complex (WI027-078001-/WI021-080001-), with extensive view in all directions. One of five unclassified cairns (WI021-080003-, WI021-080006-, WI021-080007-, WI021-080009-) close to a larger cairn (WI021-080004-). This cairn comprises a pile of loose stones among which are some small boulders. There is a hollow in the centre. (Grogan no. 3, SMR file) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 December 2012

• WI021-080009 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on the NNW edge of the summit of Spinans Hill, within Spinans Hill hillfort (WI027-078002-) which lies within the larger hillfort complex (WI027-078001-/WI021-080001-), with extensive view in all directions. One of five unclassified cairns (WI021-080003-, WI021-080006-, WI021-080007-, WI021-080008-) close to a larger cairn (WI021-080004-). This cairn (diam. c. 8m) comprises a pile of loose stones among which are some small boulders. There is a hollow in the centre. (Grogan no. 4, SMR file) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 December 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyhubbock 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

At the centre of the townland of Ballyhubbock Upper, 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 Upper.

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.

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

Name

Ballyhubbock Upper · Baile Hobac Uachtarach

Area

993,612 m² (99.36 ha, 245.53 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

Ballyhubbock Lower, Castlesallagh, Eadestown Hill, Eadestown North, Spinans Hill

Placenames

Ballyhubbock 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.