Ballynure

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynure, from 1,451 m² to 3,104 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Ballynure 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballynure in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballynure.

Recorded monuments

• WI020-027 Enclosure
  Description

  Noted by the OSi air survey branch during the preparation of the 1:50 000 maps c. 1996 and described as a ringfort-type enclosure. Visible on a Google Earth aerial photograph as a circular enclosure (c. 28m N-S; c. 29m E-W)(Accessed: 19 September 2012; Imagery date: 16 April 2003). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 18 December 2012

• WI020-028 Church
  Description

  The top of a twin-light ogee-headed window in the graveyard of a Church of Ireland church is evidence of a possible medieval church at this location. The present church appears to be entirely modern. There are no early remains visible in the graveyard (WI020-028001-). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 12 November 2012

• WI020-028001 Graveyard
  Description

  The top of a twin-light ogee-headed window in the graveyard of the Church of Ireland church in Ballynure is evidence of a possible medieval church (WI020-028----) at this location. The present church appears to be entirely modern. There are no early remains visible in the graveyard. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 12 November 2012

Architectural heritage

• Church of the Ascension (Ballynure), church/chapel, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey Board of First Fruits Gothic style Church of Ireland church with three-stage tower, built 1814. The building consists of a short nave with the tower to the west end and a vestry projection to the north (probably added c.1840). The walls of the nave are now finished in a mixture of roughcast, lined render, with moulded quoins and granite dressings to some of the openings. The tower is finished in roughcast and has moulded granite string courses, dripstones and a crenellated parapet with granite corner pinnacles, whilst the vestry has rubble walls with granite quoins. The gable-ended pitched roofs of the nave and vestry are both slated and have granite parapets with a decorative chimneystack to the apex of the vestry gable and a cross finial to the east gable of the nave. The roof of the tower is hidden by the parapet. The entrance is to the north face of the tower and consists of a pointed arch timber door set in a bevelled reveal. The windows have pointed arch heads with some filled with decorative stone tracery and stained glass and others with timber sash frames. The chancel window has reticulated tracery. Mixture of cast-iron and replacement metal rainwater goods. The church is surrounded by a small graveyard enclosed by a rubble wall.

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 Ballynure, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballynure · Baile an Iúir

Area

742,349 m² (74.23 ha, 183.44 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynure, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

The Grange, the unit of the census

Census 2022

472 people lived in 167 households in the The Grange electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynure Demesne, Ballynure Park, Colbinstown (Co. Kildare), Knockdoo, Knoxtershill, Spratstown (Co. Kildare)

Placenames

Ballynure 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.