Ballykelly
Ballykelly is a townland in the civil parish of Carnew, barony of Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Cheallaigh.
- Area
- 176.9 ha
- 437 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 11,701 m² (1.17 ha, 2.89 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykelly, from 248 m² to 426,622 m² (42.66 ha, 105.42 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballykelly 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
24 Mar 2023N/a
for change of use of existing stone cottage from residential use to commercial short-term letting use
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23293
15 Feb 2023N/a
change of use of existing stone cottage from residential use to commercial short term letting use
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23134
13 May 2021Conditional
change of use of dwelling house from residential use to commercial short term letting use
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 21555
8 Oct 2019Conditional
74.5 sqm single storey pitched roof residential extension to the rear of existing building and single storey porch extension to the front of the existing building and refurbishment works to the existing 126 sqm agricultural building and the change of use of part of the existing agricultural building to residential including provisions for a new on site effluent disposal system and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 191096
26 Mar 2018Conditional
86 sqm single storey pitched roof residential extension, to the rear of the existing building and refurbishment works to the existing 126 sqm agricultural building and the change of use of part of the existing agricultural building to residential. The application includes provision for a new primary separation, vertical flow reed bed, and soil polishing filter wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18306
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tomnafinnoge Wood 001852
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballykelly.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballykelly.
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 Ballykelly, 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 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 Ballykelly.
- 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 Ballykelly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballykelly · Baile Uí Cheallaigh
- Area
- 1,768,904 m² (176.89 ha, 437.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carnew, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelagh
- Electoral division
- Coolattin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 286 people lived in 100 households in the Coolattin electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynultagh, Ballyraheen, Coolattin Park, Coolboy, Paulbeg, Tomnafinnoge
- Placenames
- Ballykelly 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.