Ballynerrin
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcoole, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile an Oiriún
- Area
- 99.2 ha
- 245 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 2,606 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- Agriculture/Green Belt
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynerrin, from 205 m² to 502,883 m² (50.29 ha, 124.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P1Agriculture/Green Belt (Agriculture)
Greystones-Delgany & Kilcoole Local Planning Framework (LPF), Wicklow · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4Active Open Space (Active open space)
Greystones-Delgany & Kilcoole Local Planning Framework (LPF), Wicklow · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Natural Areas (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Greystones-Delgany & Kilcoole Local Planning Framework (LPF), Wicklow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Greystones-Delgany & Kilcoole Local Planning Framework (LPF), Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community & Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Greystones-Delgany & Kilcoole Local Planning Framework (LPF), Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 Jan 2026N/a
6 no. self-catering units with external decking, unit with office and sensory play room, wastewater treatment system, access driveway and parking area, and all associated site development works including drainage, pedestrian pathways, fencing, native hedging and landscaping
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660020
27 Oct 2023Conditional
4no. parking spaces for Craic n Camper camper vehicles in a designated area in the former golf course maintenance yard
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360386
23 Oct 2023N/a
4no. parking spaces for Craic n Camper camper vehicles in a designated area in the former golf course maintenance yard
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360368
21 Feb 2022Conditional
1 to 3 storey post primary school. 37 no. general classrooms, 20 no. specialist classrooms, PE hall, a special needs unit, 6 no. hard play courts and all ancillary pupil and staff facilities with a total internal floor area of c.10,808 sqm. Associated car parking, bicycle parking and open spaces/landscaping. A pedestrian and vehicular access is from the unnamed road and two further pedestrian entrances are proposed from the school to the north and east into Hawkins Wood. All associated site works including boundary treatments, plant, bin stores, site services and connections to facilitate the development (The application site, comprising 4.6 ha, is south of Hawkins Wood residential, Greystones, ABP Ref 305773-19, currently under construction and to the east of the unnamed road)
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22168
24 Jul 2020Conditional
parking of ' Vagabond Tours' vehicles, tour buses and trailers at designated area in the golf course maintenance yard
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 20710
1 Jul 2020Conditional
ten year permission for film studio media campus. The development will consist of the construction of 73,511 sqm of film studio media campus floor space, made up of 15 buildings of varying height and gross internal floor area, with a maximum height of 17.5m and maximum individual gross internal floor area of 8882 sqm. The buildings will include film studio sound stages, production facilities, workshops and ancillary accommodation on a site of 18.53hectares and all associated ancillary structures, services and infrastructure. Vehicular access to the dev shall be via 4 no entrances, from the public roads the R774, the R762 and 2 from the internal IDA bus Technology Park Road. The proposal will involve the improvement and upgrade of the existing entranceway to the Mill Road R762 and the alteration of the entrance to the R774, pedestrian and cyclist paths, the provision of 722 car parking spaces, multipurpose coach, HGV parking, Winnebago parking and loading areas, 276 bicycle spaces, electric cart shelter and parking. All associated landscaping features, waste compounds, substations, feature entrance signage and tensile canopy structure with 12m high peaks to the R774 entrance, 13sqm coffee kiosk to animate the public plaza to Mill Road, large scale advertising panel to façade of building 1 and 10 and signage to coffee shop, way finding signage and identification signage to individual buildings, security check in buildings and associated security barriers, new pedestrian and cycle streel frame bridge with timber deck over the existing stream to the north, backlot areas to the south east, and occasional use of paved areas when not in use and landscape areas for backlot use, fencing and planting and to the perimeter of the site and all ancillary services and infrastructure. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report will be submitted
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20620
29 Oct 2019Conditional
strategic housing development for a mixed use, residential and employment proposal comprising the following: residential development of 354 no units including: 124 no 2 storey houses (comprising 13 no 2 bed, 93 no 3 bed and 18 no 4 bed), 2 no apartment blocks (5-6 storeys in height), comprising 170 no units (36 no 1 bed, 123 no 2 bed and 11 no 3 bed). The apartment development will include a concierge, security room and communal amenity room. 60 no duplex apartments (30 no 2 bed and 30 no 3 bed), all residential units provided with private garden / balcony / terrace space to standard and facing north / south / east / west. Provision of public and communal open spaces, car parking (456 no spaces) and cycle parking (388 no spaces). An employment development comprising a 2 storey community enterprise building (1356 sqm) and a 2 storey office building (1376 sqm), 91 no parking spaces and 108 no bicycle spaces, the relocation of the existing temporary bus parking facility to the western side of the unnamed local road leading to Shoreline Sports Park, accesses to the development from the unnamed local road and via Seabourne apartment development to the north, provision of pedestrian connections including across 774 / L1221 to Charlesland Neighbourhood Centre, all associated site development works, drainage and infrastructural works, servicing (including 2 no substations, bin stores), landscaping, open spaces and boundary treatment works. The application contains a statement setting out how the proposal will be consistent with the objectives of the relevant development plan (Wicklow County Development Plan 2016-2022) and local area plan (Greystones - Delgany and Kilcoole Local Area Plan 2013 - 2019). The application contains a statement indicating why permission should be granted for the proposed development, having regard to a consideration specified in section 37(2)(b) of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, notwithstanding that the proposed development materially contravenes a relevant development plan or local area plan other than in relation to the zoning of the land. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report has been prepared in respect of the proposed development
N/a, 124 homes · Wicklow County Council, sh201904
9 Aug 2018Refused
existing extension to car park (1670 sqm and ancillary site works including landscaping and lighting on former tee area north of clubhouse
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 18910
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: The Murrough cSPA 004186
Recorded monuments
- WI013-009 Enclosure
Description
Situated on the edge of a low ridge overlooking a steep N-facing slope. Small circular enclosure (est. max. diam. c. 25m) defined by a narrow fosse visible as a cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BGE 85). Not visible at ground level. 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
- WI013-010 Enclosure
Description
Situated on level ground in gently undulating terrain. Oval enclosure (est. max. diam. c. 50m) defined by a narrow fosse (traces of a second inner fosse are visible at the NE) visible as a cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BGE 85). Not visible at ground level. 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
- WI013-011 Church
Description
Situated on the line of a field boundary in gently undulating terrain. A nave and chancel church (int. dims. 11m x 5.3m) of uncoursed mortared rubble. The walls at the S and E still stand to their full height of c. 2.4m. The door appears to have been at the W and there are windows (without surviving details) in the E and S walls. A wall niche occurs at the E end of the S wall. Reynolds (1973, 50) mentions a decorated stone in the church which has not been located. 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
- WI013-011001 Decorated stone
Description
Reynolds and Haworth (1973, 50) noted a possible decorated stone at the church in Ballynerrin(WI013-011----) which has not been located. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 07 February 2013
- WI013-118 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 31m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 24/06/2018. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Conall Coleman Date of upload: 01 April 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynerrin.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3394 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballynerrin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynerrin · Baile an Oiriún
- Area
- 991,898 m² (99.19 ha, 245.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcoole, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Kilcoole, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcoole electoral division: 12,163 people in 4,109 households; 74% of households own their home; 68% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydonarea, Ballygannon, Charlesland, Killincarrig, Knockroe
- Placenames
- Ballynerrin 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.