# Ballynure, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballynure, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile an Iúir. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 742,349 m² (74.23 ha, 183.44 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,277 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballynure, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/ballynure.md - Barony: Talbotstown Upper - Electoral division: The Grange, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54960 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250298 - Centre: latitude 53.020299, longitude -6.75891 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynure, from 1,451 m² to 3,104 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5312969: 3,104 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5312969.md - Parcel 1268418: 1,451 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268418.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Ballynure in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Ballynure. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI020-027: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI020-027----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI020-028----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI020-028001-. 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 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) - Church of the Ascension (Ballynure), church/chapel, 1810–1815, Regional interest, registry number 16402003, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16402003. 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. ## 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 Ballynure, about 1 in 10 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 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 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/ballynure.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballynure.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballynure.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballynure 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) - Ballynure Demesne: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballynure-demesne.md - Ballynure Park: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballynure-park.md - Colbinstown (Co. Kildare): https://everytownland.com/kildare/colbinstown.md - Knockdoo: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockdoo.md - Knoxtershill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knoxtershill.md - Spratstown (Co. Kildare): https://everytownland.com/kildare/spratstown.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. --- 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/ballynure - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballynure