# Ballyross, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Powerscourt, barony of Rathdown, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Uí Rois. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,773,291 m² (177.33 ha, 438.19 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,574 m² (0.76 ha, 1.87 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Powerscourt, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/powerscourt.md - Barony: Rathdown - Electoral division: Powerscourt, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 889 people lived in 283 households in the Powerscourt electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55124 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250315 - Centre: latitude 53.173859, longitude -6.253314 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyross, from 27 m² to 217,336 m² (21.73 ha, 53.7 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1274062: 217,336 m² (21.73 ha, 53.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274062.md - Parcel 1271334: 106,156 m² (10.62 ha, 26.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271334.md - Parcel 1284873: 49,286 m² (4.93 ha, 12.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1284873.md - Parcel 5012688: 41,335 m² (4.13 ha, 10.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5012688.md - Parcel 5515700: 25,202 m² (2.52 ha, 6.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5515700.md - Parcel 1272094: 21,228 m² (2.12 ha, 5.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1272094.md - Parcel 5701947: 15,005 m² (1.5 ha, 3.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5701947.md - Parcel 1286673: 14,898 m² (1.49 ha, 3.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286673.md - Parcel 1261243: 8,865 m² (0.89 ha, 2.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1261243.md - Parcel 2655388: 8,842 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2655388.md - Parcel 1281350: 8,513 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281350.md - Parcel 1261312: 7,574 m² (0.76 ha, 1.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1261312.md - Parcel 1292191: 5,011 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292191.md - Parcel 1263961: 1,794 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263961.md - Parcel 5701939: 1,602 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5701939.md - Parcel 1270740: 1,536 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270740.md - Parcel 5278030: 1,017 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5278030.md - Parcel 5846868: 262 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5846868.md - Parcel 1289157: 111 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289157.md - Parcel 5515722: 92 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5515722.md - Parcel 5846846: 58 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5846846.md - Parcel 5515723: 32 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5515723.md - Parcel 5278029: 27 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5278029.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyross 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 21 Jan 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660029: Conditional. Permission. Planning Permission for the partial demolition of the existing house with a reduction in floor area from 182sq. M to 161.5sq M, internal alterations/external changes to the elevations and associated drainage/ancillary site works all at Oak Lodge, Ballyross, Enniskerry, A98AC61, Co. Wicklow.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660029/0 - 2 Apr 2020, Wicklow County Council 20322: Refused. Retention, 1 home. converted farm store / barn for on farm self catering accommodation under Objective T15 of the County Development Plan together with approved effluent treatment system (PRR 14/873). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20322/0 - 16 Mar 2020, Wicklow County Council 20261: N/a. Retention, 1 home. converted farm store / barn for on farm self catering accommodation under Objective T15 of the County Development Plan together with approved effluent treatment system (PRR 14/873). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20261/0 - 18 Feb 2020, Wicklow County Council 20155: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. replacement farm dwelling with permission for proposed effluent treatment system, altogether with associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20155/0 - 24 Jan 2020, Wicklow County Council 2055: N/a. Retention, 1 home. replacement farm dwelling under Objective HD23 (4) of the County Development Plan together with proposed effluent treatment system, together with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2055/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Wicklow Mountains SAC, site code 002122, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002122 - Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA, site code 004040, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004040 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glencree Valley, site code 001755 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyross. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyross. ## 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 Ballyross, 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: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyross. - 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/ballyross.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyross.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyross.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyross 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) - Ballycoyle: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballycoyle.md - Ballyreagh: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyreagh.md - Cloon: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cloon.md - Lackandarragh Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/lackandarragh-upper.md - Powerscourt Mountain: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/powerscourt-mountain.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/ballyross - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballyross