Ballyraheen

67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyraheen, from 108 m² to 787,657 m² (78.77 ha, 194.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyraheen 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.

• 21 Sept 2023Conditional

  proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23721

• 5 Apr 2023N/a

  proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 23340

• 6 Mar 2023Conditional

  purposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance, driveway & associated works.

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23217

• 20 Oct 2022N/a

  proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance, driveway and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221121

• 28 Jun 2022Conditional

  proposed extension to dwelling, internal alterations to existing dwelling and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22712

• 8 Apr 2022N/a

  proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, new entrance, driveway and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22373

• 25 Jun 2021Conditional

  upgrading of the existing two storey cottage, with some minor elevational alterations, together with a new two storey rear extension, upgrading of effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, bored well, permission for demolition of existing rear extension and shed, together with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21757

• 8 Jun 2021Refused

  dwelling, wastewater treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance, driveway and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21682

• 26 May 2021Conditional

  the rear extension to existing dwelling as constructed and permission for removal of existing septic tank and installation of new wastewater system and associate works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 21622

• 6 Apr 2021Conditional

  dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21368

• 2 Jun 2017Conditional

  52.22 sqm garage and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17639

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tomnafinnoge Wood 001852

Recorded monuments

• WI043-007 Enclosure
  Description

  On a gentle SE facing slope at the edge of a small ornamental plantation. A possible enclosure which survives as a sharp scarp (1.4m high) which forms an arc (c. 1/8 of the 'enclosure') on the downslope (SE) side. This may be a landscape feature or an enclosure which has been modified to form a landscape feature. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 October 2012

• WI043-013 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Piped spring on the edge of a natural platform, situated on the slope of a stream valley. There are no local traditions, although Price (1958, 355-6) mentions it was formerly the location of a pattern, and that it had a cure for headaches. 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

Architectural heritage

• Ballyraheen House, country house, 1750–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two and a half-storey over basement country house, built c.1760. The country house is finished part in render and part in vertical hung slate. There is a two-storey three-bay canted breakfront to the centre of the south-east front elevation. The panelled timber door has stone dressings and is surmounted by a pediment. Window openings are flat-headed with six over six timber sash frames. There are symmetrically arranged farm ranges, now part ruinous, to either side of the front elevation. The country house is set on a slight rise overlooking the main road.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Ballyraheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballyraheen · Baile an Ráithín

Area

2,880,384 m² (288.04 ha, 711.76 acres)

Civil parish

Mullinacuff, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelagh

Electoral division

Tinahely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tinahely electoral division: 1,634 people in 613 households; 73% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykelly, Ballynultagh, Ballyshonog, Greenhall, Newtown, Stranakelly, Tomnafinnoge

Placenames

Ballyraheen 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.