Ballylow

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylow, from 2,358 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres) to 2,766,567 m² (276.66 ha, 683.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballylow 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.

• 6 Aug 2025Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, block up existing entrance, new entrance onto public road and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560601

• 19 Aug 2024Conditional

  (1) Attic conversion with 2 additional habitable bedrooms and bathroom, roof windows to front and rear of existing roof, (2) single storey porch extension to front, (3) single storey extension to side of existing house, (4) Proposed new pitched roof to side shed and this roof to extend to side gable of house to create canopy with gate to canopy area all with associated ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460503

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Wicklow Mountains SAC 002122
• Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA 004040

Recorded monuments

• WI006-017 Settlement cluster
  Description

  Situated within an extensive pattern of fields, covering 11 hectares, extending from Ballydonnell Brook up the side of Bulbaun mountain for 200m. Three irregular conjoined enclosures (max. dims. 50m E-W; 30m N-S) enclosed by poorly preserved stone and earthen banks, with a house foundation (dims. c. 8m x 5m) in the middle enclosure. There are smaller oval enclosures (dims. 10m x 5m) in the NE corner of each. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballylow.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballylow.

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.

No address of the register names Ballylow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballylow · Baile an Leamhaigh

Area

6,670,461 m² (667.05 ha, 1,648.31 acres)

Civil parish

Blessington, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Blessington, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Blessington electoral division: 4,588 people in 1,608 households; 71% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydonnell North, Ballydonnell South, Ballynabrocky, Ballynatona, Ballynultagh, Carrigeenduff, Cloghoge

Placenames

Ballylow 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.