Ballysmuttan Upper

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballysmuttan Upper, from 300 m² to 228,892 m² (22.89 ha, 56.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballysmuttan Upper 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballysmuttan Upper in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballysmuttan Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI005-113 Cross-slab
  Description

  On the N side of the road, on the S face of the flanking field bank. A granite slab (H 0.95m; 0.55m x 0.25m) with an incised cross on its irregular S face. The cross (H 0.63m; Wth 0.35m), formed by an incised line (Wth c. 0.02m; D 0.03m), has a triangular-shaped terminal at its base. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 11 December 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballysmuttan Upper.

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).

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 Ballysmuttan Upper.

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.

No address of the register names Ballysmuttan Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballysmuttan Upper · Buaile na Smután Uachtarach

Area

1,390,738 m² (139.07 ha, 343.66 acres)

Civil parish

Blessington, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Blessington, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Blessington electoral division: 4,588 people in 1,608 households; 71% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athdown, Ballynasculloge Lower, Ballynatona, Ballysmuttan Lower, Cloghleagh, Scurlocksleap

Placenames

Ballysmuttan Upper 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.