Ballynagran

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynagran, from 168 m² to 244,478 m² (24.45 ha, 60.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballynagran 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.

• 25 Sept 2025Conditional

  RED III Category 3 Development - Construction of a solar PV energy development with an operational life of 40 years on three land parcels totalling approximately 203.5 hectares comprising the installation of approximately 806,630 sq. m. of photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames and associated ancillary development including: 23 no. transformers stations, 2 no. Ring Main Unit buildings, string-inverters attached to panel frames, CCTV security cameras mounted on 4 metre high poles, deer-proof perimeter security fencing (2 metres high) raised 150mm to allow for the movement of small mammals, 3 no. site entrances utilising existing entrances including upgrade to entrance on L1111 to facilitate construction and operational phase access, internal access tracks between the solar arrays and the site entrances, 2 no. clear span bridges over existing watercourses, 1 no. primary temporary construction compound and 2 no. satellite temporary construction compounds, all associated ancillary development works including landscaping; and the installation of a total of ca. 6.1 kilometres of 33Kv double circuit underground cable, of which ca. 2.4 kilometres will be beneath public (L1111, L1113, L5113, L51132 and L5112) and private roads in an excavated trench including underground ducting and joint bays and all associated site development and reinstatement works to connect the proposed Ring Main Units on two of the land parcels of the solar PV energy development and extending to the site of a proposed 110kv substation to be the subject of a separate planning permission under the Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Act 2006.

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560764

• 15 Jan 2020Unconditional

  extend the appropriate period of a permission - 01/5285 - Engineered Residual Landfill (31 hectares) to accept 180,000 tonnes per annum of non hazardous waste for 15 years and ancillary facilities

  Extension of duration · Wicklow County Council, 2021

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 Ballynagran.

Recorded monuments

• WI031-002001 Gateway
  Description

  Situated within a moated site (WI031-002002-) on the summit of a low gently slopped hill with extensive views especially to the S. The remains consist of a vaulted gateway aligned NNE-SSW (L 6.65m; Wth 3.7m), constructed of regular mortared courses with no cut or dressed stone. If symmetric the gateway would have been c. 2.6m wide. Both side-walls are incomplete at the S end, but were probably not much longer. The NW corner is intact but the E wall appears to have continued some distance to the N. A short length of very thick wall (L 1.3m; Wth 1.8m) projects from the E side of the entranceway; there is no indication that this continued further; it may be a buttress or possibly the remains of a perimeter wall. The outer face of the W wall is broken but there is no indication of any adjoining wall on this side. There is no evidence for dating these remains to the 13th century except for the fact that they are sited on a moated site. They may well represent a gateway to a later hall-house or tower house. (O'Flanagan 1928, 120; Price 1936, 47-8) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 101/1940).

• WI031-002002 Moated site
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a low gently sloped hill with extensive views especially to the S. A large rectangular area (dims. 37m N-S; 30m E-W) surrounded by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 7.5-10m; D 0.5-0.8m) and a wide low bank of earth (Wth 8-10m at W, N and E, 5m at S; H 0.4-0.6m). A castle (WI040-028001-) is located at the S end of the enclosure opposite which is a causeway across the fosse and a corresponding gap in the bank. To the E and W of this entrance feature are two hollows projecting inwards from the fosse which may be associated with the entrance defenses. (O'Flanagan 1928, 120; Price 1936, 47-8) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 101/1940).

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Ballynagran · Baile na gCrann

Area

950,317 m² (95.03 ha, 234.83 acres)

Civil parish

Glenealy, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Glenealy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinaclogh, Ballykillavane, Ballymanus Lower, Coolbeg, Kilcandra

Placenames

Ballynagran 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.