Ballytoole Upper

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballytoole Upper, from 9,183 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres) to 278,926 m² (27.89 ha, 68.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballytoole 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 Ballytoole 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 Ballytoole Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI027-044 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated immediately to the N of the summit of Keadeen Mountain with very extensive views. Circular cairn (diam. 20m; H 2m) of horizontally laid slabs. Its base is overgrown by peat. Suggested by Herity (1974, 260) to be a passage tomb. See attached photo courtesy of Robert Hanbidge The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

• WI027-044001 Cupmarked stone
  Description

  Situated immediately to the N of the summit of Keadeen Mountain with very extensive views. A boulder (dims. L 0.4m x Wth 0.3m x T 0.04m) with a single cup mark visible at base of hilltop cairn (WI027-044----) now incorporated into wall at base of cairn (pers. comm. Robert Hanbidge 09/07/2020). See attached photos courtesy of Robert Hanbidge Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on details provided by Robert Hanbidge Date of upload: 9 July 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballytoole 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

At the centre of the townland of Ballytoole Upper, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballytoole Upper.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballytoole Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballytoole Upper · Buaile Uí Thuathail Uachtarach

Area

964,330 m² (96.43 ha, 238.29 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Imael South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

271 people lived in 98 households in the Imael South electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballytoole Lower, Keadeen, Killybeg, Muckduff Upper, Rostyduff Lower, Rostyduff Upper

Placenames

Ballytoole 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.