# Ballyknockan Upper, 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 Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,226,506 m² (122.65 ha, 303.08 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 24,638 m² (2.46 ha, 6.09 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 11 applications 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): 3,173 people lived in 1,108 households in the Rathdrum electoral division. 69% of households owned 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/55695 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250237 - Centre: latitude 52.91648, longitude -6.253749 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyknockan Upper, from 891 m² to 319,595 m² (31.96 ha, 78.97 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1292868: 319,595 m² (31.96 ha, 78.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292868.md - Parcel 5282747: 303,214 m² (30.32 ha, 74.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5282747.md - Parcel 1292432: 291,761 m² (29.18 ha, 72.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292432.md - Parcel 1296277: 120,179 m² (12.02 ha, 29.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296277.md - Parcel 1268053: 51,299 m² (5.13 ha, 12.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268053.md - Parcel 1274900: 39,895 m² (3.99 ha, 9.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274900.md - Parcel 1278961: 27,694 m² (2.77 ha, 6.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278961.md - Parcel 1292879: 25,686 m² (2.57 ha, 6.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292879.md - Parcel 1271559: 24,638 m² (2.46 ha, 6.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271559.md - Parcel 1280756: 8,604 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280756.md - Parcel 1258138: 5,448 m² (0.54 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1258138.md - Parcel 4120167: 3,017 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4120167.md - Parcel 1249941: 1,898 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1249941.md - Parcel 1300051: 1,074 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1300051.md - Parcel 1276081: 1,024 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276081.md - Parcel 1283633: 998 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283633.md - Parcel 1256887: 891 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256887.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyknockan Upper 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) 11 applications, newest first. - 3 Feb 2023, Wicklow County Council 2394: Refused. Permission. construction of a bungalow with new entrance and access driveway, new treatment system and percolation area to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2394/0 - 25 Oct 2022, Wicklow County Council 221129: N/a. Permission. construction of a bungalow with new entrance and access driveway, new treatment system and percolation area to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/221129/0 - 19 Nov 2021, Wicklow County Council 211384: N/a. Permission, 1 home. construction of a two-storey dwelling with new entrance and access driveway, new treatment system and percolation area to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/211384/0 - 5 Aug 2020, Wicklow County Council 20753: Conditional. Permission. extension of existing farmhouse and permission for change of use of existing farm outbuildings to habitable space and connection back to existing farmhouse. The development consists of connection of existing farmhouse to 3 number outbuildings to provide additional family accommodation and amendments to existing effluent disposal system to EPA Standards and change of use of separate south barn to short term holiday let and separate effluent disposal system for this unit to current EPA standards. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20753/0 - 14 Nov 2019, Wicklow County Council 191226: Conditional. Permission. reclamation of land through the filling of material comprising clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone on a site having an area of 9.82 hectares, for the purpose of improvement of land, together with site access and roadway and other ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/191226/0 - 11 Oct 2019, Wicklow County Council 191110: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. one bedroom self contained unit ancillary to existing house and stable yard and retention of building consisting of 3 sheds, proposed new wastewater treatment system to EPA standards in lieu of existing septic tank and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/191110/0 - 5 Mar 2019, Wicklow County Council 19234: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. dwelling and garage with services and all associated site development works along with widening the existing farm access lane to 5m wide along the eastern boundary to the site. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19234/0 - 1 Aug 2018, Wicklow County Council 18877: N/a. Permission, 1 home. dwelling and garage with services and all associated site development works along with widening the existing farm access lane to 6m wide along the eastern boundary to the site. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18877/0 - 23 Jul 2018, Wicklow County Council 18841: N/a. Permission. erect a dwelling and garage with services along with all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18841/0 - 25 Apr 2018, Wicklow County Council 18430: Conditional. Retention. changes to windows and doors at front and side gables of existing farmhouse and replacement and relocation of septic tank. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18430/0 - 2 Mar 2017, Wicklow County Council 17221: Conditional. Permission. the reclamation of land through the filling of material comprising clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone on a site having an area of 5.583 hectares, for the purpose of improvement of land, together with site access and roadway and other ancillary site works. The proposed development relates to activity , which requires a waste licence. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17221/0 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 Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyknockan Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyknockan Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballyknockan Upper, about 1 in 10 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyknockan Upper. - 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-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyknockan-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyknockan-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyknockan Upper 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) - Ballinacarrig Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinacarrig-lower.md - Ballyknockan Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyknockan-lower.md - Corballis Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/corballis-upper.md - Garrymore Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/garrymore-lower.md - Garrymore Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/garrymore-upper.md - Knockadosan: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockadosan.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-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballyknockan-upper