Ballyreagh
Ballyreagh is a townland in the civil parish of Powerscourt, barony of Rathdown, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is An Bhuaile Riabhach.
- Area
- 90.8 ha
- 224 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 39,844 m² (3.98 ha, 9.85 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyreagh, from 1,210 m² to 135,786 m² (13.58 ha, 33.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyreagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Apr 2020Refused
converted farm store / barn for on farm self catering accommodation under Objective T15 of the County Development Plan together with approved effluent treatment system (PRR 14/873)
Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20322
16 Mar 2020N/a
converted farm store / barn for on farm self catering accommodation under Objective T15 of the County Development Plan together with approved effluent treatment system (PRR 14/873)
Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20261
18 Feb 2020Conditional
replacement farm dwelling with permission for proposed effluent treatment system, altogether with associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20155
24 Jan 2020N/a
replacement farm dwelling under Objective HD23 (4) of the County Development Plan together with proposed effluent treatment system, together with all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2055
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 Area of Conservation: Wicklow Mountains SAC 002122
- Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA 004040
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glencree Valley 001755
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyreagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyreagh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyreagh, about 1 in 5 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 high, 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 Ballyreagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyreagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyreagh · An Bhuaile Riabhach
- Area
- 908,027 m² (90.8 ha, 224.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Powerscourt, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathdown
- Electoral division
- Powerscourt, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 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.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyross, Crone, Lackandarragh Lower, Lackandarragh Upper, Powerscourt Mountain
- Placenames
- Ballyreagh 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.