Ballyrogan Lower
Ballyrogan Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Redcross, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Ruagáin Íochtarach.
- Area
- 129.8 ha
- 321 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 4,416 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyrogan Lower, from 603 m² to 403,009 m² (40.3 ha, 99.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Ballyrogan Lower 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
21 Jul 2023Refused
to construct 2No. 340m² industrial storage sheds and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23610
8 Dec 2022Conditional
proposed sewage treatment plant incorporating primary, secondary & tertiary treatment & 2m high security fencing at Jack Whites Inn Public House, Ballynapark, Arklow together with a foul rising main to be laid southwards along the verge of the old N11 (R772) through the townlands of Cronakip, Clonpadden & Ballyrogan Lower for a distance of circa 2.5km to outfall into the Redcross Rover to the east of Scratenagh Interchange. The planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement & the development will be subject of an application to Wicklow County Council for a Discharge Licence
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221309
28 Nov 2022N/a
proposed sewage treatment plant incorporating primary, secondary & tertiary treatment & 2m high security fencing at Jack Whites Inn Public House, Ballynapark, Arklow together with a foul rising main to be laid southwards along the verge of the old N11 (R772) through the townlands of Cronakip, Clonpadden & Ballyrogan Lower for a distance of circa 2.5km to outfall into the Redcross River to the east of Scratenagh Interchange. The planning application is accompanied by a NIS and the development will be subject of an application to Wicklow County Council for a Discharge Licence
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221261
10 Jun 2022Conditional
construct a stable building consisting of 4 no. stables, tack room and storage room, new laneway and yard and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22646
22 Mar 2022N/a
proposed reclamation of land through the filling of material comprising clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone on a site having an area of circa 3.743 hectares for the purpose of improvement of land for agricultural use and a temporary haul road together with a proposed vehicular entrance and ancillary works including portable truck wheel wash, office/chemical toilet
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22276
6 Mar 2018Conditional
land improvement works including the re-contouring of lands by infilling with inert material and the installation of land drainage, portable site cable/office, portable wheelwash and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18209
19 Feb 2018N/a
land improvement works including the recontouring of land by infilling with inert material and the installation of land drainage
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18157
24 Nov 2017Conditional
dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system to EPA 2009 standards, domestic entrance and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171404
25 Jul 2017N/a
single storey dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system to EPA 2009 standards, entrance and driveway and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17902
16 Mar 2017Conditional
demolish existing two storey dwelling house and sheds and construct a replacement two storey dwelling house and garage including new on site treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17271
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyrogan Lower.
Recorded monuments
- WI036-055 Burnt mound
Description
This is the record for the burnt mound and associated trough, pit and stakeholes excavated by Goorik Dehaene (E3212) on the N11 road improvement scheme. A radiocarbon date places the monument in the middle Bronze Age. (Dehaene 2009a) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 15 January 2013
- WI036-063 Burnt mound
Description
This is the record for the burnt mound excavated by Yvonne Whitty (E3215) on the N11 road improvement scheme. The spread of burnt material was isolated fromany other features and no dating evidence was obtained. (Whitty 2009d) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 18 January 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyrogan Lower.
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 Ballyrogan Lower, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyrogan Lower.
- 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 Ballyrogan Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyrogan Lower · Baile Uí Ruagáin Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,297,690 m² (129.77 ha, 320.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Redcross, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Ennereilly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 465 people lived in 168 households in the Ennereilly electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyrogan Upper, Clonpadden, Cranagh, Cronakip, Kilpatrick, Scratenagh
- Placenames
- Ballyrogan Lower 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.