# Ballymurtagh, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Castlemacadam, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Mhuircheartaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 683,246 m² (68.32 ha, 168.83 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,085 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Castlemacadam, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/castlemacadam.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Ovoca, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 728 people lived in 263 households in the Ovoca electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 10% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55236 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250275 - Centre: latitude 52.869354, longitude -6.232633 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymurtagh, from 161 m² to 278,218 m² (27.82 ha, 68.75 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1285419: 278,218 m² (27.82 ha, 68.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285419.md - Parcel 1278721: 136,323 m² (13.63 ha, 33.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278721.md - Parcel 5537872: 135,920 m² (13.59 ha, 33.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5537872.md - Parcel 4701037: 15,636 m² (1.56 ha, 3.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4701037.md - Parcel 5537909: 11,905 m² (1.19 ha, 2.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5537909.md - Parcel 5549514: 5,816 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5549514.md - Parcel 1268011: 4,085 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268011.md - Parcel 5537962: 2,721 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5537962.md - Parcel 5537934: 1,748 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5537934.md - Parcel 1268444: 466 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268444.md - Parcel 4952364: 274 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4952364.md - Parcel 1256614: 243 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256614.md - Parcel 5585021: 161 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5585021.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballymurtagh 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 30 Jul 2026, Wicklow County Council 26149: Conditional. Retention. Retention of garden playroom structure of 24sqm & Permission for its change of use to short term accommodation. Retention permission of 40ft shipping container that is used for general storage of garden equipment.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/26149/0 - 17 Jul 2026, Wicklow County Council 26144: N/a. Retention. garden playroom structure of 24m2 and change of use to short term accommodation , retention of40ft shipping container and change of use for general storage of garden equipment etc. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/26144/0 - 28 Aug 2023, Wicklow County Council 23673: Conditional. Permission. construction of dwelling (183sqm), installation of sewage treatment facility and percolation area and all ancillary works and landscaping. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/23673/0 - 8 Aug 2023, Wicklow County Council 23636: N/a. Permission. construction of dwelling ( 183 sqm) installation of sewage treatment facility and percolation area and all ancillary works and landscaping. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/23636/0 - 20 Sept 2022, Wicklow County Council 221010: Conditional. Permission. demolition of existing dilapidated dwelling, the construction of a proposed new single storey dwelling, upgrade of effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, bored well, together with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/221010/0 - 3 Apr 2019, Wicklow County Council 19357: Conditional. Permission. demolition of existing car port / garage and construction of a replacement garage, entrance gates and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19357/0 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 Ballymurtagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymurtagh. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Avoca Copper and Sulphur Mines, building misc, 1850–1870, Regional interest, registry number 16403509, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16403509. Bridge, built c.1860, carrying mine railway line, formerly associated with an open cast copper and sulphur mine. The bridge is constructed of rubble granite with roughly hewn voussoirs. It is single arched and carries a tramway over a dirt road. ## 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 Ballymurtagh, 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3264, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3264.zip (ZIP). - 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/ballymurtagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballymurtagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballymurtagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballymurtagh 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) - Ballygahan Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballygahan-lower.md - Ballygahan Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballygahan-upper.md - Kilcashel: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kilcashel.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/ballymurtagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballymurtagh