# Ballyknockan Lower, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathdrum, barony of Ballinacor North, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile an Chnocáin Íochtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 617,206 m² (61.72 ha, 152.51 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,030 m² (0.7 ha, 1.74 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathdrum, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/rathdrum.md - Barony: Ballinacor North - Electoral division: Rathdrum, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Rathdrum electoral division: 3,173 people in 1,108 households; 69% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55694 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250235 - Centre: latitude 52.915862, longitude -6.264678 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyknockan Lower, from 303 m² to 217,732 m² (21.77 ha, 53.8 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1285377: 217,732 m² (21.77 ha, 53.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285377.md - Parcel 1300050: 108,816 m² (10.88 ha, 26.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1300050.md - Parcel 1260971: 97,407 m² (9.74 ha, 24.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260971.md - Parcel 1293333: 69,297 m² (6.93 ha, 17.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1293333.md - Parcel 4852591: 61,577 m² (6.16 ha, 15.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4852591.md - Parcel 1279146: 18,470 m² (1.85 ha, 4.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1279146.md - Parcel 1260021: 10,229 m² (1.02 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260021.md - Parcel 1265185: 7,030 m² (0.7 ha, 1.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265185.md - Parcel 1263572: 5,834 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263572.md - Parcel 1258272: 4,526 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1258272.md - Parcel 1250420: 4,170 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1250420.md - Parcel 1256202: 4,169 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256202.md - Parcel 1265464: 4,077 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265464.md - Parcel 1289423: 3,568 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289423.md - Parcel 1262259: 303 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262259.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyknockan Lower in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 16 Apr 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560282: Conditional. Permission. construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new well, upgrade existing entrance onto public road and associate works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560282/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyknockan Lower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyknockan Lower. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyknockan Lower. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Ballyknockan Lower. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyknockan-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyknockan-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyknockan-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyknockan Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballard: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballard-250041.md - Ballinacarrig Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinacarrig-lower.md - Ballinaclash: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinaclash.md - Ballycarrigeen: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballycarrigeen.md - Ballyknockan Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyknockan-upper.md - Garrymore Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/garrymore-lower.md - Garrymore Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/garrymore-upper.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyknockan-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballyknockan-lower