# Ballylow, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Blessington, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile an Leamhaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 6,670,461 m² (667.05 ha, 1,648.31 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 133,955 m² (13.4 ha, 33.1 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Blessington, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/blessington.md - Barony: Talbotstown Lower - Electoral division: Blessington, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54613 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250248 - Centre: latitude 53.140766, longitude -6.389076 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1275577: 2,766,567 m² (276.66 ha, 683.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275577.md - Parcel 1292183: 2,342,564 m² (234.26 ha, 578.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292183.md - Parcel 1268272: 688,272 m² (68.83 ha, 170.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268272.md - Parcel 1285111: 319,371 m² (31.94 ha, 78.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285111.md - Parcel 1274569: 148,436 m² (14.84 ha, 36.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274569.md - Parcel 1287696: 144,181 m² (14.42 ha, 35.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1287696.md - Parcel 1299945: 123,729 m² (12.37 ha, 30.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1299945.md - Parcel 1261215: 88,156 m² (8.82 ha, 21.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1261215.md - Parcel 1278941: 25,142 m² (2.51 ha, 6.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278941.md - Parcel 1274995: 4,424 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274995.md - Parcel 2759105: 2,545 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2759105.md - Parcel 1279798: 2,358 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1279798.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 6 Aug 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560601: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560601/0 - 19 Aug 2024, Wicklow County Council 2460503: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460503/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Wicklow Mountains SAC, site code 002122, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002122 - Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA, site code 004040, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004040 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI006-017: Settlement cluster, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI006-017----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballylow. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, 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/ballylow.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballylow.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballylow.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballylow 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) - Ballydonnell North: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballydonnell-north.md - Ballydonnell South: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballydonnell-south.md - Ballynabrocky: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballynabrocky.md - Ballynatona: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballynatona.md - Ballynultagh: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballynultagh-250297.md - Carrigeenduff: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/carrigeenduff.md - Cloghoge: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cloghoge-250499.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/ballylow - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballylow