Ballykeppoge
Ballykeppoge is a townland in the civil parish of Dunganstown, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Baile na gCeapóg.
- Area
- 39.2 ha
- 97 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 3,457 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykeppoge, from 251 m² to 214,004 m² (21.4 ha, 52.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Ballykeppoge 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
22 Jul 2024N/a
a proposed new dwelling, new garage , well, a proposed secondary treatment system to current EPA guidelines with percolation area, a new entrance off public road and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460435
26 Apr 2022Refused
a proposed new dwelling, new garage, well, a propose secondary treatment system to current EPA guidelines with percolation area, a new entrance off public road and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22450
27 Aug 2021Conditional
revised site boundaries, new percolation area to current epa standards and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211066
22 Jan 2018Refused
dwelling, wastewater treatment system to EPA 2009 standards, garage, new entrance, associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 1840
19 Jan 2018Conditional
change of use of part of existing agricultural building to commercial storage use for the storage of biosolids and all ancillary site development works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 1834
21 Dec 2017Conditional
extensions and alterations to existing 151.44 sqm dwelling. The works will include alterations to existing floor plans and elevations including an additional c34 sqm of floor area incorporating new bay windows, a new bedroom, a new living room as well as the upgrading of the existing on site treatment system to a proposed new secondary treatment system and percolation area to current EPA guidelines and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171526
31 May 2017Conditional
2 no conservatories to sides of dwelling and associated works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 17632
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 Ballykeppoge.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballykeppoge.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballykeppoge.
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 Ballykeppoge, 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 Ballykeppoge.
- 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 Ballykeppoge with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballykeppoge · Baile na gCeapóg
- Area
- 392,302 m² (39.23 ha, 96.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunganstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Dunganstown East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 925 people lived in 305 households in the Dunganstown East electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinteskin, Ballymoney, Bonabrocka, Gormanstown
- Placenames
- Ballykeppoge 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.