Ballyrichard

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyrichard, from 2,936 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres) to 741,309 m² (74.13 ha, 183.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Ballyrichard 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.

• 5 Dec 2017Conditional

  10 year permission for the construction of a Solar PV Energy development within a total site area of up to 58.9 hA, to include one single storey electrical substation building, electrical transformer / inverter station modules, battery storage modules, solar PV panels ground mounted on steel support structures, access roads, fencing and associated electrical cabling, ducting and ancillary infrastructure

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171440

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 Ballyrichard.

Recorded monuments

• WI041-003 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  Situated on a gentle SE-facing slope. Templerainy Church ruins (WI040-017001-) located 1.7km to SW and Kilpatrick Church (WI036-023----) located 2.5km to N. An area (dims. c. 350m NE-SW; 200m NW-SE) containing a large complex of low banks, trackways, some rectangular enclosures, house sites and areas of ridge and furrow cultivation. The field within which the complex occurs was annotated 'Oldtown Field' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map (Price 1967, 4720. The old Dublin to Wexford road ran on the SE side of the settlement and joined with other roads leading N. King James' Road (WI041-003002-) ran though the centre of the possible deserted medieval settlement connecting the medieval church of Templerainy (WI040-017001-) to Kilpatrick Church (WI036-023----). The well preserved earthworks are very clear on Google Earth orthoimages taken 20/01/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimages 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. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 5 October 2020

• WI041-003002 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Price (1967, 472) recorded that there 'was an old road which led southwards from the old chapel in Kilpatrick (WI036-023----) along the west sdie of Ballyrichard into Templerainy (WI040-017001-) and Coolboy. The trace of it is still visible on the townland boundary between Ballyrichard and Johnstown. The tradition is that King James went by this road to Shelton on his way from Dublin to Duncannon after the Battle of the Boyne'. The route of the road is shown on the 1838 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is annotated in two places as 'King James' Road'. Several townland boundaries intersect along the route of the possible medieval road and it appears to run through the centre of a possible deserted medieval settlement (WI041-003----) in the townland of Ballyrichard which is annotated 'Oldtown Field' on the 1838 ed. OSi 6-inch map. See attached Google Earth orthoimages 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. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 5 October 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyrichard.

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 Ballyrichard, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3349 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballyrichard · Baile Risteaird

Area

1,036,290 m² (103.63 ha, 256.07 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Kilbride, the unit of the census

Census 2022

928 people lived in 304 households in the Kilbride electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinaskea, Ballinclea, Ballymoyle, Glenteige, Johnstown North, Johnstown South, Templerainy

Placenames

Ballyrichard 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.