Ballykean (Annesley)
Townland in the civil parish of Redcross, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Uí Chéin (Annesley)
- Area
- 105.1 ha
- 260 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 22,539 m² (2.25 ha, 5.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykean (Annesley), from 226 m² to 154,679 m² (15.47 ha, 38.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballykean (Annesley) 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
2 Jul 2026Conditional
roofed horse walker together with all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660604
22 Jun 2026N/a
roofed horse walker together with all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660562
28 Apr 2023Conditional
Full Planning Permission on behalf of Blessington GAA Club for a new 2 storey clubhouse building to contain at ground floor level (a) 2 no. changing rooms with adjoining toilet,( b) a referee’s room with changing facilities, (c) plant room, (d) public toilets with separate disabled access, (e) internal storage area and at first floor level (f) a new indoor training/gym space with viewing terrace and (g) meeting room with adjoining toilet facilities and all associate site works at Blessington Demesne, Blessington, Co. Wicklow.
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360021
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballykean (Annesley).
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballykean (Annesley).
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballykean (Annesley).
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Ballykean (Annesley).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballykean (Annesley) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballykean (Annesley) · Baile Uí Chéin (Annesley)
- Area
- 1,050,753 m² (105.08 ha, 259.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Redcross, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Dunganstown West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunganstown West electoral division: 481 people in 181 households; 82% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykean (Penrose), Ballykean (Stringer), Kilmacrea Lower, Redcross, Springfarm
- Placenames
- Ballykean (Annesley) 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.