# Ballylug, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Knockrath, barony of Ballinacor North, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile an Loig. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,052,629 m² (205.26 ha, 507.22 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 16,035 m² (1.6 ha, 3.96 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Knockrath, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/knockrath.md - Barony: Ballinacor North - Electoral division: Trooperstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 348 people lived in 116 households in the Trooperstown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55726 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250249 - Centre: latitude 52.981818, longitude -6.264853 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylug, from 663 m² to 283,684 m² (28.37 ha, 70.1 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1288293: 283,684 m² (28.37 ha, 70.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288293.md - Parcel 1269069: 216,284 m² (21.63 ha, 53.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269069.md - Parcel 5915572: 109,428 m² (10.94 ha, 27.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5915572.md - Parcel 1281407: 108,681 m² (10.87 ha, 26.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281407.md - Parcel 1268106: 90,006 m² (9 ha, 22.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268106.md - Parcel 1276911: 88,114 m² (8.81 ha, 21.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276911.md - Parcel 1288203: 86,132 m² (8.61 ha, 21.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288203.md - Parcel 1277876: 83,667 m² (8.37 ha, 20.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277876.md - Parcel 1274516: 72,387 m² (7.24 ha, 17.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274516.md - Parcel 5915586: 63,015 m² (6.3 ha, 15.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5915586.md - Parcel 1288291: 51,056 m² (5.11 ha, 12.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288291.md - Parcel 1265602: 40,180 m² (4.02 ha, 9.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265602.md - Parcel 1288292: 33,511 m² (3.35 ha, 8.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288292.md - Parcel 6036721: 18,899 m² (1.89 ha, 4.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6036721.md - Parcel 1300021: 13,171 m² (1.32 ha, 3.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1300021.md - Parcel 1283936: 12,394 m² (1.24 ha, 3.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283936.md - Parcel 1274035: 9,422 m² (0.94 ha, 2.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274035.md - Parcel 6036741: 9,016 m² (0.9 ha, 2.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6036741.md - Parcel 2657123: 6,873 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2657123.md - Parcel 1256922: 4,098 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256922.md - Parcel 2657122: 3,143 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2657122.md - Parcel 1262312: 2,650 m² (0.27 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262312.md - Parcel 1278516: 2,534 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278516.md - Parcel 1280644: 2,134 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280644.md - Parcel 1285316: 2,094 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285316.md - Parcel 6036803: 1,450 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6036803.md - Parcel 1294650: 1,032 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294650.md - Parcel 1273547: 663 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273547.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballylug 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. - 31 Jul 2024, Wicklow County Council 24331: Conditional. Retention. the following developments: (a) a Christmas Village to include 8no. Log cabins for retail use, 2no. Open Shelter Barns, toilet block, Santa's house, animal barn, plant building and all ancillary works; (b) retention permission for 3no. Changing shelters and an Office building in the Fun Park and (c)planning permission sought for a universal access toilet and a wastewater treatment system for the Christmas Village development. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/24331/0 - 3 May 2023, Wicklow County Council 2360027: N/a. Permission. for permission for a new dwelling, installing a new entrance on to existing laneway, access to public road from existing lane entrance as granter under planning permission 10/2332, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associate works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360027/0 - 30 Jan 2023, Wicklow County Council 2375: Refused. Retention. (1) a 26.92m2 timber frame chalet structure as a short-term rental accommodation and (2) all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2375/0 - 16 Feb 2022, Wicklow County Council 22153: N/a. Permission, 1 home. new dwelling, installing a new entrance on to existing laneway, access to public road from existing lane entrance as granted under planning permission 10/2332, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associate works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22153/0 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 Ballylug. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballylug. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballylug. ## 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 Ballylug, 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 high, 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 Ballylug. - 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/ballylug.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballylug.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballylug.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballylug 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) - Ballylusk: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballylusk-250251.md - Clara More: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/clara-more.md - Knockrath Big: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockrath-big.md - Knockrath Little: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockrath-little.md - Trooperstown: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/trooperstown.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/ballylug - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballylug