# Ballynavortha, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Moyacomb, barony of Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile na bhFórtach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,296,730 m² (129.67 ha, 320.43 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,397 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Moyacomb, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/moyacomb.md
- Barony: Shillelagh
- Electoral division: Money, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55902
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250291
- Centre: latitude 52.7444, longitude -6.643279 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

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); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1279514: 775,007 m² (77.5 ha, 191.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1279514.md
- Parcel 2656594: 279,563 m² (27.96 ha, 69.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2656594.md
- Parcel 4753441: 161,814 m² (16.18 ha, 39.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4753441.md
- Parcel 1276517: 22,709 m² (2.27 ha, 5.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276517.md
- Parcel 1281999: 21,002 m² (2.1 ha, 5.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281999.md
- Parcel 1258201: 11,806 m² (1.18 ha, 2.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1258201.md
- Parcel 1274851: 4,989 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274851.md
- Parcel 1273321: 4,635 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273321.md
- Parcel 1255530: 3,831 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1255530.md
- Parcel 1275440: 3,274 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275440.md
- Parcel 2447890: 2,777 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2447890.md
- Parcel 1294795: 2,003 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294795.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 9 Apr 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560262: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560262/0

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 Ballynavortha.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- WI042-034: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI042-034----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI042-035----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI042-055----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## 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 Ballynavortha, 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 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 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/ballynavortha.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballynavortha.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballynavortha.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ballynavortha 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)

- Leany (Co. Carlow): https://everytownland.com/carlow/leany.md
- Money Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/money-upper.md
- Moylisha: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/moylisha.md
- Orchard (Co. Carlow): https://everytownland.com/carlow/orchard-10440.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.

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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/ballynavortha
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballynavortha