# Ballyorney, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacanoge, barony of Rathdown, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile na hEornan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 270,061 m² (27.01 ha, 66.73 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,297 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 10 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmacanoge, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/kilmacanoge.md - Barony: Rathdown - Electoral division: Powerscourt, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 889 people lived in 283 households in the Powerscourt electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 4% 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/55108 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250301 - Centre: latitude 53.172137, longitude -6.175239 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyorney, from 164 m² to 129,111 m² (12.91 ha, 31.9 acres); 3 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1278402: 129,111 m² (12.91 ha, 31.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278402.md - Parcel 5262250: 26,034 m² (2.6 ha, 6.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5262250.md - Parcel 1275661: 4,448 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275661.md - Parcel 1294471: 1,903 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294471.md - Parcel 1271764: 1,745 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271764.md - Parcel 1292196: 1,533 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292196.md - Parcel 5970539: 1,370 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5970539.md - Parcel 1277025: 1,225 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277025.md - Parcel 5539716: 1,217 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5539716.md - Parcel 5539719: 529 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5539719.md - Parcel 1260094: 523 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260094.md - Parcel 1297483: 455 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297483.md - Parcel 1289161: 220 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289161.md - Parcel 1296134: 164 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296134.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyorney 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) 10 applications, newest first. - 2 Aug 2024, Wicklow County Council 2460473: Conditional. Retention. existing vehicular entrance gates as constructed and Permission for (a) reinstatement of boundary fence and hedgerow to front of garage; (b) alterations to garage to allow access from within the site; (c) demolition of existing porch and construction of new entrance porch; (d) demolition of existing southern extension (bedroom); (e) demolition of existing eastern extension and shed; (f) construction of single storey extension to the east incorporating 2no. bedrooms and a single storey extension to the north incorporating a utility room; (g) covered terrace to the north; (h) skylights to existing roof; associated elevational changes to all elevations; (i) upgrade of waste water treatment system; (j) all ancillary site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460473/0 - 30 Jul 2024, Wicklow County Council 2460459: N/a. Retention. existing vehicular entrance gates as constructed and Permission for (a) reinstatement of boundary fence and hedgerow to front of garage; (b) alterations to garage to allow access from within the site; (c) demolition of existing porch and construction of new entrance porch; (d) demolition of existing southern extension (bedroom); (e) demolition of existing eastern extension and shed; (f) construction of single storey extension to the east incorporating 2no. bedrooms and a single storey extension to the north incorporating a utility room; (g) covered terrace to the north; (h) skylights to existing roof; associated elevational changes to all elevations; (i) upgrade of waste water treatment system; (j) all ancillary site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460459/0 - 18 Jan 2024, Wicklow County Council 2460019: Refused. Permission. (a) demolition of existing porch and construction of new entrance porch; (b) demolition of existing southern extension (bedroom);(c) demolition of existing eastern extension and shed; (d) construction of single storey extension to the east incorporating 2no. bedrooms and a single storey extension to the north incorporating a utility room; (e) covered terrace to the north; (f) skylights to existing roof; associated elevational changes to all elevations; (g) upgrade of waste water treatment system and all ancillary site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460019/0 - 15 Dec 2023, Wicklow County Council 23906: Conditional. Permission. decommissioning of existing septic tank and proposing a new Tricel 8 person sewage treatment plant and polishing filter. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/23906/0 - 2 Oct 2019, Wicklow County Council 191074: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. change of use (removal of condition 1 of Reg Ref 2045/86) from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/191074/0 - 3 May 2019, Wicklow County Council 19472: N/a. Permission, 1 home. two storey 4 no bedroom dwelling house (209.6 sqm), wastewater treatment system, hard and soft landscaping, boundary treatments, changes in level, and all other associated site development works above and below ground. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19472/0 - 3 May 2019, Wicklow County Council 19477: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. two storey 4 no bedroom dwelling house (209.6 sqm), wastewater treatment system, hard and soft landscaping, boundary treatments, changes in level, and all other associated site development works above and below ground. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19477/0 - 29 Jan 2019, Wicklow County Council 1982: Conditional. Retention. existing 30 sqm single storey shed / garage for storage use ancillary to the dwelling home. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/1982/0 - 9 Oct 2018, Wicklow County Council 181111: Refused. Permission, 1 home. two storey 4 bedroom dwelling house (209.6 sqm), wastewater treatment system, hard and soft landscaping, boundary treatments, changes in level and all other associated site development works above and below ground. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/181111/0 - 27 Jun 2018, Wicklow County Council 18716: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. removing existing septic tank and install a 6 person wastewater treatment unit to EN12566 Standard, 2 puraflow pods and a 33sqm attenuation layer in accordance with EPA 2009 regulations. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18716/0 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 Ballyorney. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyorney. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Ballyorney House, house, 1800–1820, Regional interest, registry number 16400715, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16400715. Detached three-bay two-storey house with large two-storey wing to rear, built c.1810 but possibly incorporating the fabric of an earlier dwelling. The property has a sprawling irregular plan with the main section to the north-west and the long rear wing (which has differing roof levels and appears to have been built in stages) to the south-east. The walls are finished in roughcast with quoins and a moulded eaves course to the main front. The various sections of the roof are all hipped and slated and there are rendered chimneystacks of various sizes. The entrance consists of a panelled timber double door, Ionic three-quarter column jambs, reeded entablature with ram’s skull mouldings, (all in painted sandstone), and a semi-circular fanlight with decorative leaded ‘petal’ tracery. The window openings are generally flat-headed and filled with eight over eight, six over six, four over four and two over two timber sash frames. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior was restored in the 1970s-80s. The house is set within its own spacious grounds. ## 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 Ballyorney, 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 Ballyorney. - 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/ballyorney.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyorney.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyorney.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyorney 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) - Ballybawn Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballybawn-lower.md - Charleville Demesne: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/charleville-demesne.md - Glebe: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/glebe-250715.md - Stilebawn: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/stilebawn-251264.md - Tinnehinch: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/tinnehinch-251307.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/ballyorney - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballyorney