Ballyshonog
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Shillelagh Ra), barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Sheonac
- Area
- 226.3 ha
- 559 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 10,388 m² (1.04 ha, 2.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyshonog, from 85 m² to 564,341 m² (56.43 ha, 139.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Ballyshonog 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
23 Sept 2025Conditional
(i) existing milking parlour, (ii) existing concrete slab, (iii) existing hard surface roadway and (iv) existing site layout (Previous Planning Reg. No. 15/740 refers)
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560749
4 Mar 2025Conditional
the removal of existing shed structures to side and rear of existing house, the provision of a new two storey rear return granny flat over new farm sheds and associated effluent treatment system, and the provision a new single storey kitchen extension to the side of the existing house
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560138
16 May 2023Conditional
proposed single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23467
8 May 2023Conditional
Permission for works to existing dwelling house including the following; 1. Construction of a single storey extension to the front of existing dwelling house, 2. Construction of a single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling house, also construction of a domestic garage along with all associated site works at
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360034
6 May 2020Refused
construct a fully serviced dwelling house with domestic garage and all associated site works including septic tank and percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20420
15 Apr 2019Conditional
extension to the side (south west) of our existing dwelling and erect an extension to the side (north east) of existing dwelling including a domestic garage under roof and all associated site and ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19401
28 May 2018Conditional
construct a straw bedded cattle shed, concrete aprons and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18574
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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyshonog.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyshonog.
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 5 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 Ballyshonog.
- 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 Ballyshonog with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyshonog · Baile Sheonac
- Area
- 2,263,001 m² (226.3 ha, 559.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Shillelagh Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Tinahely, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tinahely electoral division: 1,634 people in 613 households; 73% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyraheen, Boleybawn, Coolross, Farnees, Glenphilipeen, Greenhall, Muskeagh, Newtown, Tinahely
- Placenames
- Ballyshonog 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.