Ballymurrin Upper

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymurrin Upper, from 955 m² to 456,704 m² (45.67 ha, 112.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Ballymurrin Upper 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.

• 18 Jun 2025Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling, garage, septic tank and percolation area, new well, new entrance onto existing lane which leads to public road, upgrading existing entrance onto public road and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560451

• 26 Jul 2024Conditional

  a) Retention permission for calf rearing shed, b) Planning permission for the construction of an agricultural shed comprising of cubicles and feeding area with underground slatted slurry storage tanks, c) Planning permission for a new machinery road and all associated siteworks

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2460453

• 17 Jan 2022Refused

  existing 154.1sqm domestic shed as constructed on site, new gravel area and associate works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2226

• 24 Jul 2019Conditional

  single storey flat roofed extension to the side of the dwelling including 1 no roof light and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19801

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 Ballymurrin Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymurrin Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballymurrin Upper, about 1 in 5 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

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

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 Ballymurrin Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballymurrin Upper · Baile Uí Mhuireáin Uachtarach

Area

846,161 m² (84.62 ha, 209.09 acres)

Civil parish

Dunganstown, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Dunganstown East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

925 people lived in 305 households in the Dunganstown East electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinteskin, Ballymoney, Ballymurrin Lower, Roscath

Placenames

Ballymurrin Upper 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.