Ballynavortha

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynavortha, from 2,003 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 775,007 m² (77.5 ha, 191.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Ballynavortha 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 Apr 2025Conditional

  alterations & extensions to my dwelling, to include an extension of 135sqm to the front, side and rear elevations. Also for the upgrade of the treatment system together with all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560262

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 Ballynavortha.

Recorded monuments

• WI042-034 Enclosure
  Description

  On gentle NW facing slope overlooking a stream (Wicklow-Carlow border). In wheat field. No visible surface above ground of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) marked on 1st ed. on gentle NW facing slope. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 02 October 2012

• WI042-035 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope. According to Price (1958, 375), ‘On a farm here there is an arrangement of low grass banks forming a maze, which is locally called ‘the walls of Troy’. The maze appears to have been a sod or turf maze (Manning 2004, 166-8). A sketch by Healy c. 1957 (ibid.) shows it as a rectangular labyrinth (dims. 24.4m x 26.4m). The monument was levelled in 1990 and is not visible above ground. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 05 October 2012

• WI042-055 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of semi-circular shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 100m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Simon Dowling Date of upload: 21 October 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballynavortha, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballynavortha · Baile na bhFórtach

Area

1,296,730 m² (129.67 ha, 320.43 acres)

Civil parish

Moyacomb, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelagh

Electoral division

Money, the unit of the census

Census 2022

165 people lived in 57 households in the Money electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Leany (Co. Carlow), Money Upper, Moylisha, Orchard (Co. Carlow)

Placenames

Ballynavortha 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.