Ballymerrigan

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymerrigan, from 126 m² to 306,204 m² (30.62 ha, 75.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballymerrigan 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.

• 9 Oct 2024Refused

  existing small double “Shepherds Huts” which are two existing mobile single storey huts on wheels (c.27sqm) to be used as a home office. Retention permission is also sought for the service connection to the existing BioCycle and BioCycle Soakaway, and other ancillary site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2460615

• 20 Feb 2024Refused

  existing small scale single tourist unit made up of a small double “Shepards Huts” which are two existing mobile single storey huts on wheels (c.27sqm) along with all associated works to facilitate the development. The use of this accommodation shall be reserved for short term stays only

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2460093

• 7 Feb 2024N/a

  for existing small scale single tourist unit made up of a small double “Shepards Huts” which are two existing mobile single storey huts on wheels (c.27sqm). Retention permission is also sought for the service connection to the existing BioCycle and BioCycle Soakaway, and other ancillary site works. The use of this accommodation shall be reserved for short term stays only

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2460067

• 28 Oct 2020Conditional

  proposed study cabin for use as a study and homework room, and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 201090

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballymerrigan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymerrigan.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballymerrigan, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3372 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballymerrigan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballymerrigan · Baile Uí Mheirgin

Area

1,562,838 m² (156.28 ha, 386.19 acres)

Civil parish

Glenealy, and its townlands

Barony

Newcastle

Electoral division

Glenealy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,861 people lived in 1,004 households in the Glenealy electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykillavane, Ballyknockan Beg, Ballynabarny, Coolnakilly, Cronroe, Milltown North, Milltown South

Placenames

Ballymerrigan 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.