Ballykillavane
Townland in the civil parish of Glenealy, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Mhic Giolla Bháin
- Area
- 115.5 ha
- 285 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 2,501 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykillavane, from 5 m² to 277,554 m² (27.76 ha, 68.59 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 Ballykillavane 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 2025Conditional
stud farm and private dressage stables which will generally comprise of the following: • a new entrance and access road; • 2 No. stable blocks incorporating stores, tack rooms and toilets; • breeding barn; • outdoor and indoor arenas; • canteen and staff facilities; • a lunge / walker pen; • sheds / buildings for hay, dung storage and waste management; • a lorry shed; • on site effluent treatment / disposal system; • storm water management; • associated site development works, car parking and services and other infrastructure / welfare provisions for the project; This planning submission includes a Natura Impact Statement
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560555
9 Oct 2024N/a
development of an equestrian farm. The development will generally comprise a new entrance access road; 3 stable blocks incorporating stores and tack rooms; outdoor arena; indoor arena with viewing area; staff facilities; sheds / buildings for storage of hay, straw, dung, waste management, machinery, lorries; a lunge / walker pen; breeding barn and operators’ residence together with associated site development works / services; effluent treatment / disposal; and other infrastructure / welfare provisions for the project. This planning submission includes a Natura Impact Statement
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460617
6 Nov 2023Conditional
proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, with entrance through existing entrance to public road, and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23819
3 Apr 2020Unconditional
demolish existing dwelling house and construction of 2 no. 3 bed semi-detached houses and a domestic on-site wastewater treatment system
Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 20336
24 Jan 2020N/a
revisions to previously granted dwelling to include dormer windows and balcony to rear elevation and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2056
18 Apr 2019Conditional
dwelling with waste water treatment system to EPA standards on site previously granted under Planning Register Reference 07/1599 for a replacement dwelling in lieu of fire damaged dwelling and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19414
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glenealy Woods 001756
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballykillavane.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballykillavane.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3347 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballykillavane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballykillavane · Baile Mhic Giolla Bháin
- Area
- 1,155,188 m² (115.52 ha, 285.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Glenealy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Glenealy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glenealy electoral division: 2,861 people in 1,004 households; 76% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinaclogh, Ballymanus Lower, Ballymerrigan, Ballymoat, Ballynabarny, Ballynagran, Coolnakilly
- Placenames
- Ballykillavane 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.