Ballysallagh East
Townland in the civil parish of Dunganstown, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Baile Salach Thoir
- Area
- 76.6 ha
- 189 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 3,053 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballysallagh East, from 597 m² to 236,460 m² (23.65 ha, 58.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballysallagh East 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 Aug 2025Refused
permission for removal of planning condition no. 2 of planning ref 19/310 (from restricted use of dwelling to use by all classes of persons)
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560643
11 Sept 2024Refused
(1) a 94.00 m2 single storey dwelling, (2) 3 No. 100 m2 Hydroponic Grow Houses (3) a waste-water treatment unit and its associated percolation area, all to EPA standards, (4) a revised site entrance and (5) all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460547
2 Aug 2023N/a
construction of a bungalow with garage, new entrance, a new treatment system and percolation area to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360196
25 Mar 2019Conditional
dwelling, garage, effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, bored well, upgrade to existing entrance, together with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19310
29 Aug 2017Refused
dwelling, garage, effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, bored well, upgrade to existing entrance, together with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171047
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Buckroney-Brittas Dunes and Fen SAC 000729
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Buckroney-Brittas Dunes And Fen 000729
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballysallagh East.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballysallagh East.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballysallagh East.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballysallagh East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballysallagh East · An Baile Salach Thoir
- Area
- 766,383 m² (76.64 ha, 189.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunganstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Dunganstown South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunganstown South electoral division: 954 people in 320 households; 78% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardanairy, Ballynapark, Ballysallagh West, Ballytunny, Bellpark, Cornagower West, Raherd, Tonlegee
- Placenames
- Ballysallagh East 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.