# Ballylaffin, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathsallagh, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Lafáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 766,548 m² (76.65 ha, 189.42 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 117,720 m² (11.77 ha, 29.09 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathsallagh, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/rathsallagh.md - Barony: Talbotstown Upper - Electoral division: Rathsallagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 291 people lived in 97 households in the Rathsallagh electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 8% 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/54927 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250241 - Centre: latitude 53.035049, longitude -6.702639 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylaffin, from 2,468 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) to 480,369 m² (48.04 ha, 118.7 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1286881: 480,369 m² (48.04 ha, 118.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286881.md - Parcel 1292237: 137,405 m² (13.74 ha, 33.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292237.md - Parcel 1289207: 117,720 m² (11.77 ha, 29.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289207.md - Parcel 1266960: 2,565 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1266960.md - Parcel 4876343: 2,468 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4876343.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballylaffin 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 28 Jul 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560575: Conditional. Permission. new private dwelling with detached garage, private well, new site entrance, waste water treatment unit and percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560575/0 - 22 May 2024, Wicklow County Council 24235: Refused. Permission, 1 home. a bungalow, domestic garage, effluent system and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/24235/0 - 30 Apr 2024, Wicklow County Council 24204: N/a. Permission. bungalow, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/24204/0 - 5 Mar 2024, Wicklow County Council 24109: N/a. Permission. bungalow, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/24109/0 - 25 Oct 2022, Wicklow County Council 221130: Conditional. Retention. revised extension design and external façade finishes to that previously granted under planning reference 07/1423 and full planning permission to upgrade the existing septic tank to an oakstown treatment plant with soil polishing filter and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/221130/0 - 25 Oct 2019, Wicklow County Council 191163: Conditional. Permission. structural steel agricultural shed and all associated site works. Shed is for the storage of hay, straw and farm machinery. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/191163/0 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 Ballylaffin. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballylaffin. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballylaffin. ## 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 Ballylaffin, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballylaffin. - 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/ballylaffin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballylaffin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballylaffin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballylaffin 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) - Coonanstown: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/coonanstown.md - Oldcourt: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/oldcourt-251116.md - Rathsallagh: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rathsallagh.md - Rottenhill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rottenhill.md - Tornant Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/tornant-lower.md - Tornant Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/tornant-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/ballylaffin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballylaffin