# Ballyrooaun, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Arklow, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile an Ruáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 369,648 m² (36.96 ha, 91.34 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,955 m² (2.2 ha, 5.43 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): C2.1 Employment, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Arklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/arklow.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Arklow Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55152 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250314 - Centre: latitude 52.788943, longitude -6.182541 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4901188: 211,861 m² (21.19 ha, 52.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4901188.md - Parcel 1263779: 61,215 m² (6.12 ha, 15.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263779.md - Parcel 1260880: 30,762 m² (3.08 ha, 7.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260880.md - Parcel 1259911: 28,184 m² (2.82 ha, 6.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1259911.md - Parcel 1285562: 21,955 m² (2.2 ha, 5.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285562.md - Parcel 1258266: 6,946 m² (0.69 ha, 1.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1258266.md - Parcel 1277047: 3,588 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277047.md - Parcel 1296443: 2,851 m² (0.29 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296443.md - Parcel 1265793: 2,334 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265793.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - C2.1 Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment): Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Living/Services/Planning/Development-Plans-Strategies/Local-Area-Town-Settlement-Plans/Arklow/Arklow-and-Environs-Local-Area-Plan-2018-2024 - G4 Active Open Space (Active open space): Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Living/Services/Planning/Development-Plans-Strategies/Local-Area-Town-Settlement-Plans/Arklow/Arklow-and-Environs-Local-Area-Plan-2018-2024 - G1 Passive Open Space (Open space, park): Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Living/Services/Planning/Development-Plans-Strategies/Local-Area-Town-Settlement-Plans/Arklow/Arklow-and-Environs-Local-Area-Plan-2018-2024 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 2 Oct 2023, Wicklow County Council 2360318: Conditional. Permission. installation of 6 no. 16m high floodlights and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360318/0 - 25 Nov 2022, Wicklow County Council SI202202: N/a. N/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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/SI202202/0 - 22 May 2018, Wicklow County Council 18552: Refused. N/a. erect a finger post sign for Wicklow Calf Company. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18552/0 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 Ballyrooaun. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyrooaun. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyrooaun. ## 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 Ballyrooaun, about 1 in 20 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 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3328.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/ballyrooaun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyrooaun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyrooaun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyrooaun 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) - Ballintombay: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballintombay.md - Ballyraine Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyraine-upper.md - Knockanrahan Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockanrahan-upper.md - Lamberton: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/lamberton.md - Moneylane: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/moneylane.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/ballyrooaun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballyrooaun