# Ballyrichard, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilbride, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Risteaird. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,036,290 m² (103.63 ha, 256.07 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 80,061 m² (8.01 ha, 19.78 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilbride, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/kilbride.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Kilbride, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55495 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250310 - Centre: latitude 52.836802, longitude -6.132584 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1278763: 741,309 m² (74.13 ha, 183.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278763.md - Parcel 1296426: 195,626 m² (19.56 ha, 48.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296426.md - Parcel 5986473: 80,061 m² (8.01 ha, 19.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5986473.md - Parcel 1285457: 13,091 m² (1.31 ha, 3.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285457.md - Parcel 5367719: 2,936 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5367719.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 5 Dec 2017, Wicklow County Council 171440: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/171440/0 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 Ballyrichard. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI041-003: Settlement deserted - medieval, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI041-003----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI041-003002-. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyrichard. ## 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 Ballyrichard, about 1 in 5 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 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3349.zip (ZIP). - 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/ballyrichard.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyrichard.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyrichard.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyrichard 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) - Ballinaskea: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinaskea-250099.md - Ballinclea: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinclea-250108.md - Ballymoyle: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballymoyle.md - Glenteige: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/glenteige.md - Johnstown North: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/johnstown-north.md - Johnstown South: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/johnstown-south.md - Templerainy: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/templerainy.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/ballyrichard - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballyrichard