Ballysheeman
Townland in the civil parish of Knockrath, barony of Ballinacor North, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Shíomoin
- Area
- 61.7 ha
- 153 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 15,382 m² (1.54 ha, 3.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballysheeman, from 1,860 m² to 164,213 m² (16.42 ha, 40.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Ballysheeman 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
29 May 2024Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road, block up existing entrance onto road and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460296
2 Mar 2023Conditional
(1) side extension to main building by conversion of attached existing store room; (2) conversion of existing stable/store rooms to form additional habitable rooms as part of main dwelling; (3) construction of designer’s studio; (4) construction of artist’s studio; (5) construction of greenhouse; (6) construction of two storage sheds and (7) replacement of septic tank with new sewage treatment system and percolation area
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23205
6 Jan 2023N/a
1. Side extension to main building by conversion of attached existing store room; 2. Conversion of existing stable/store rooms to form additional habitable rooms as part of main dwelling; 3. Construction of Designer’s Studio; 4. Construction of artist’s studio; 5. Construction of Greenhouse; 6. Construction of two storage sheds and 7. Replacement of septic tank with new sewage treatment system and percolation area
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 239
14 Nov 2022N/a
1. Side extension to main building by conversion of attached existing store room; 2. Conversion of existing stable/store rooms to form additional habitable rooms as part of main dwelling; 3. Construction of designer's studio; 4. Construction of artist's studio; 5. Construction of greenhouse; 6. Construction of two storage sheds and 7. Replacement of septic tank with new sewage treatment system and percolation area
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 221204
28 Jan 2022Conditional
extension to dwelling and retention of shed
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2265
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 Ballysheeman.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballysheeman.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballysheeman.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Ballysheeman.
- 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 Ballysheeman with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballysheeman · Baile Shíomoin
- Area
- 617,167 m² (61.72 ha, 152.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Knockrath, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor North
- Electoral division
- Ballinderry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballinderry electoral division: 508 people in 176 households; 82% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydowling, Ballydowling Hill, Ballyhad Upper, Knockrath Little
- Placenames
- Ballysheeman 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.