Ballykillageer Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Ballintemple, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Mhic Giolla Ghéir Íochtarach
- Area
- 122.2 ha
- 302 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 2,873 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykillageer Lower, from 20 m² to 321,905 m² (32.19 ha, 79.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Ballykillageer 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
30 Jun 2026N/a
the construction of a new dwelling, wastewater treatment system, new well, new entrance onto public road and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660593
14 Aug 2025Conditional
1. a three part extension to the rear and side of this dwelling house consisting of the erection/construction of: a) Three enclosing wooden panelled elevation walls and a roof to an existing ground floor over basement rear/ southern balcony to form a new room, the footprint of which extends beyond the eastern elevation of this dwelling. b) A wooden panelled single storey extension to the western side elevation that now forms an integrated L- shaped ground floor extension A. c) A wooden panelled lean-to roofed out building attached to part of the rear/ southern ground floor elevation thereof
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560631
12 Aug 2025N/a
1. a three part extension to the rear and side of this dwelling house consisting of the erection/construction of: a) Three enclosing wooden panelled elevation walls and a roof to an existing ground floor over basement rear/ southern balcony to form a new room, the footprint of which extends beyond the eastern elevation of this dwelling. b) A wooden panelled single storey extension to the western side elevation that now forms an integrated L- shaped ground floor extension A. c) A wooden panelled lean-to roofed out building attached to part of the rear/ southern ground floor elevation thereof
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560620
6 Aug 2025N/a
1. a three part extension to the rear and side of this dwelling house consisting of the erection/construction of: a) three enclosing wooden panelled elevation walls and a roof to an existing ground floor over basement rear/ southern balcony to form a new room, the footprint of which extends beyond the eastern elevation of this dwelling. b) a wooden panelled single storey extension to the western side elevation that now forms an integrated L- shaped ground floor extension A. c) a wooden panelled lean- to roofed out building attached to part of the rear/ southern ground floor elevation thereof
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560603
24 Apr 2024Conditional
the construction of a single storey extension to the side of the school building and all associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24197
25 Aug 2021Conditional
removal of existing septic tank and installation of a new wastewater treatment unit, a TER3 filter unit and 23sqm attenuation layer filter to current standards and including all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211053
16 Nov 2020Conditional
Proposed 5 dwellings with associated works including proposed new main sewer to connect this development to the existing Ballycoogue wastewater treatment plant, and connection to watermains
Permission, 5 homes · Wicklow County Council, 201147
6 Nov 2018Conditional
proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, new entrance and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181233
14 Sept 2018Conditional
dwelling all together with associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 181014
7 Sept 2018N/a
dwelling all together with associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 18992
19 Jul 2018Conditional
slatted cubicle shed, concrete aprons and over ground slurry store with all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18830
21 Jun 2017Refused
dormer style dwelling with garage, new entrance well effluent disposal system to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17734
1 Jun 2017N/a
dormer style dwelling with garage, entrance, well, effluent disposal system to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17637
6 Apr 2017N/a
dormer style dwelling with garage, new entrance, well, effluent disposal system to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17371
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 Ballykillageer Lower.
Recorded monuments
- WI040-010 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on an E-W ridge, with land sloping gently away to the S. A large circular area (dims. c. 53m N-S; 49m E-W), defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4-6m; H 0.5m). The interior is level and featureless with no indications of an entrance or an external fosse. It was extant when visited in 1990, but has since been destroyed. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballykillageer Lower.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Ballykillageer Lower.
- 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 Ballykillageer Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballykillageer Lower · Baile Mhic Giolla Ghéir Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,222,377 m² (122.24 ha, 302.06 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballintemple, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Arklow Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Arklow Rural electoral division: 1,415 people in 498 households; 80% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinasilloge, Ballintemple, Ballinvally Lower, Ballykillageer Upper, Clonwilliam
- Placenames
- Ballykillageer 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.