# Ballymurrin Upper, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dunganstown, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Uí Mhuireáin Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 846,161 m² (84.62 ha, 209.09 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,055 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dunganstown, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/dunganstown.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Dunganstown East, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55347 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250274 - Centre: latitude 52.938238, longitude -6.097412 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymurrin Upper, from 955 m² to 456,704 m² (45.67 ha, 112.85 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1293456: 456,704 m² (45.67 ha, 112.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1293456.md - Parcel 1264596: 373,636 m² (37.36 ha, 92.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1264596.md - Parcel 1285298: 3,896 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285298.md - Parcel 1277224: 2,214 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277224.md - Parcel 1272987: 1,984 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1272987.md - Parcel 4973559: 955 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4973559.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 18 Jun 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560451: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560451/0 - 26 Jul 2024, Wicklow County Council 2460453: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460453/0 - 17 Jan 2022, Wicklow County Council 2226: Refused. Retention. existing 154.1sqm domestic shed as constructed on site, new gravel area and associate works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2226/0 - 24 Jul 2019, Wicklow County Council 19801: Conditional. Permission. single storey flat roofed extension to the side of the dwelling including 1 no roof light and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19801/0 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 Ballymurrin Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymurrin Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymurrin Upper. ## 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 Ballymurrin Upper, about 1 in 5 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 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 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/ballymurrin-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballymurrin-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballymurrin-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinteskin: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinteskin-250127.md - Ballymoney: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballymoney-250266.md - Ballymurrin Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballymurrin-lower.md - Roscath: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/roscath.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/ballymurrin-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballymurrin-upper