Ballyrooaun

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyrooaun, from 2,334 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres) to 211,861 m² (21.19 ha, 52.35 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.

• C2.1Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Active Open Space (Active open space)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Passive Open Space (Open space, park)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 2 Oct 2023Conditional

  installation of 6 no. 16m high floodlights and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360318

• 25 Nov 2022N/a

  Strategic Infrastructure Development to ABP for proposed development primarily comprising of the provision of a new 110 kV substation with Gas Insulator Switchgear (GIS) technology and two 110kV underground transmission cables (connecting to existing 220kV overhead lines to the northwest of the proposed substation) along with associated and ancillary works.

  N/a · Wicklow County Council, SI202202

• 22 May 2018Refused

  erect a finger post sign for Wicklow Calf Company

  N/a · Wicklow County Council, 18552

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 Ballyrooaun.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyrooaun.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyrooaun, 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, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3328 (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 Ballyrooaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballyrooaun · Baile an Ruáin

Area

369,648 m² (36.96 ha, 91.34 acres)

Civil parish

Arklow, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Arklow Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,415 people lived in 498 households in the Arklow Rural electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintombay, Ballyraine Upper, Knockanrahan Upper, Lamberton, Moneylane

Placenames

Ballyrooaun 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.