Ballyrogan Upper
Ballyrogan Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Redcross, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Ruagáin Uachtarach.
- Area
- 89.8 ha
- 222 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 11,847 m² (1.18 ha, 2.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyrogan Upper, from 618 m² to 407,066 m² (40.71 ha, 100.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Upper 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
20 Apr 2023Conditional
proposed relocation and upgrading of existing vehicular entrance realignment of part of access road (circa 85 metres) & ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23394
28 Oct 2021Conditional
proposed dwelling, wastewater treatment system to EPA standards, driveway and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211289
5 Feb 2020N/a
dwelling, wastewater treatment system to EPA standards, driveway and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20103
24 Jan 2020N/a
dwelling, wastewater treatment system to EPA standards, driveway, and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2057
15 Aug 2019N/a
dwelling, wastewater treatment system to EPA standards, driveway and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19891
14 Jan 2019N/a
dwelling, wastewater treatment system to EPA standards and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 1924
11 Jan 2019N/a
dwelling, wastewater treatment system to EPA standards and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 1921
29 Mar 2018Conditional
25.8 sqm domestic shed and retention permission for extension as built under planning reference 95/2144, modifications to existing dwelling, 2 domestic polytunnels, green house, 3 sheds and assocaiate
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18322
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 Upper.
Recorded monuments
- WI036-030 Prehistoric site - lithic scatter
Description
Small scatter of worked flint found in a ploughed field c. 4km from the coast during field-walking (1983). (Information Prof. F. Mitchell/ Prof. P. Woodman) 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyrogan Upper.
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 Upper, 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 moderately high, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyrogan Upper.
- 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 Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyrogan Upper · Baile Uí Ruagáin Uachtarach
- Area
- 898,161 m² (89.82 ha, 221.94 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
- Ballynamona, Ballyrogan Lower, Chapel, Cranagh, Crone Lower, Kilpatrick, Oghil Lower, Templelyon Lower
- Placenames
- Ballyrogan Upper 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.