# Ballyknocker, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Carnew, barony of Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow; in Irish 0. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,198,099 m² (119.81 ha, 296.06 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 19,337 m² (1.93 ha, 4.78 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Carnew, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/carnew.md - Barony: Shillelagh - Electoral division: Shillelagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 633 people lived in 233 households in the Shillelagh electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55918 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250238 - Centre: latitude 52.741959, longitude -6.546188 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyknocker, from 320 m² to 435,882 m² (43.59 ha, 107.71 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1269915: 435,882 m² (43.59 ha, 107.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269915.md - Parcel 1279138: 292,877 m² (29.29 ha, 72.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1279138.md - Parcel 1280830: 133,802 m² (13.38 ha, 33.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280830.md - Parcel 1276319: 59,487 m² (5.95 ha, 14.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276319.md - Parcel 2656102: 55,603 m² (5.56 ha, 13.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2656102.md - Parcel 1259873: 51,184 m² (5.12 ha, 12.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1259873.md - Parcel 1259874: 29,142 m² (2.91 ha, 7.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1259874.md - Parcel 1298613: 21,021 m² (2.1 ha, 5.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1298613.md - Parcel 1273534: 17,652 m² (1.77 ha, 4.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273534.md - Parcel 1288563: 3,949 m² (0.39 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288563.md - Parcel 1300138: 3,671 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1300138.md - Parcel 1276046: 2,871 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276046.md - Parcel 1263473: 2,717 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263473.md - Parcel 1281472: 2,298 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281472.md - Parcel 1282596: 1,775 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282596.md - Parcel 4627647: 320 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4627647.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyknocker 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 14 Oct 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560818: Refused. Permission. construct a fully serviced dwelling house & garage, install sewage treatment system to EPA guidelines with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560818/0 - 22 May 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560377: N/a. Permission. construct a fully serviced dwelling house & garage, install sewage treatment system to epa guidelines with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560377/0 - 20 May 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560367: N/a. Permission. construct a fully serviced dwelling house & garage, install sewage treatment system to epa guidelines with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560367/0 - 28 Jan 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560043: N/a. Permission. construct a fully serviced dwelling house & garage, install sewage treatment system to epa guidelines with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560043/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC, site code 000781, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000781 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyknocker. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyknocker. ## 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 Ballyknocker, 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: 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 Ballyknocker. - 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/ballyknocker.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyknocker.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyknocker.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyknocker 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) - Balisland: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/balisland.md - Ballard: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballard-250040.md - Ballyknocker East: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyknocker-east.md - Ballyknocker West: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyknocker-west.md - Deerpark: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/deerpark-250628.md - Minmore: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/minmore.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/ballyknocker - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballyknocker