# Ballyvaltron, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dunganstown, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Bhailtrín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,403,049 m² (140.3 ha, 346.7 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,921 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dunganstown, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/dunganstown.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Dunganstown South, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 954 people lived in 320 households in the Dunganstown South electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55380 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250332 - Centre: latitude 52.905884, longitude -6.094937 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvaltron, from 145 m² to 392,145 m² (39.21 ha, 96.9 acres); 29 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1278739: 392,145 m² (39.21 ha, 96.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278739.md - Parcel 1290655: 318,514 m² (31.85 ha, 78.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1290655.md - Parcel 1294755: 244,222 m² (24.42 ha, 60.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294755.md - Parcel 1283554: 241,211 m² (24.12 ha, 59.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283554.md - Parcel 4882433: 40,982 m² (4.1 ha, 10.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4882433.md - Parcel 1271516: 31,232 m² (3.12 ha, 7.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271516.md - Parcel 1289470: 23,997 m² (2.4 ha, 5.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289470.md - Parcel 1262206: 15,902 m² (1.59 ha, 3.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262206.md - Parcel 1284747: 14,791 m² (1.48 ha, 3.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1284747.md - Parcel 1250150: 14,531 m² (1.45 ha, 3.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1250150.md - Parcel 1265417: 10,989 m² (1.1 ha, 2.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265417.md - Parcel 3305902: 8,341 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3305902.md - Parcel 1261334: 4,961 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1261334.md - Parcel 1276788: 4,836 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276788.md - Parcel 1260927: 4,643 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260927.md - Parcel 1270063: 4,361 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270063.md - Parcel 1257908: 3,034 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1257908.md - Parcel 1256721: 2,808 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256721.md - Parcel 1248848: 2,418 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248848.md - Parcel 1285697: 2,156 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285697.md - Parcel 1297413: 2,149 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297413.md - Parcel 1258957: 1,986 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1258957.md - Parcel 1283972: 1,943 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283972.md - Parcel 1249692: 1,818 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1249692.md - Parcel 1290860: 1,270 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1290860.md - Parcel 1287441: 910 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1287441.md - Parcel 1270626: 657 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270626.md - Parcel 4983857: 626 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4983857.md - Parcel 1273992: 576 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273992.md - Parcel 1256715: 334 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256715.md - Parcel 3317383: 303 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3317383.md - Parcel 3317405: 269 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3317405.md - Parcel 4776242: 244 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4776242.md - Parcel 4909866: 145 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4909866.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyvaltron in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 23 Oct 2020, Wicklow County Council 201066: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. proposed farm dwelling with waste water treatment system to EPA standards and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/201066/0 - 29 Sept 2017, Wicklow County Council 171181: Conditional. Permission. two concrete tanks together with all associated site works. Each tank will have a capacity of 36 cubic metres and will be sited above ground. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/171181/0 - 29 May 2017, Wicklow County Council 17612: Conditional. Permission. extension to side of cottage, new front window in place of front door to existing cottage, new wastewater treatment system to EPA 2009 standards to replace existing septic tank system and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17612/0 - 31 Mar 2017, Wicklow County Council 17339: Conditional. Permission. amendments to existing agricultural entrance and new access road for agricultural use, construct an agricultural shed with slatted tank for use as cubicle shed, construct a silage slab along with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17339/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyvaltron. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI036-005: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI036-005----. Situated on low-lying level ground at the foot of a SW-facing slope in a narrow triangular area between two roads. The site is occupied by a farmhouse, now a workshop, and outbuildings, and there is no trace of any earlier structure. Marked as '(Site of) R.C. Chapel' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. 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 - WI036-036: Excavation - miscellaneous, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI036-036----. This is the record for the ditch excavated by Goorik Dehaene (E3237) on the route of the N11 road improvement scheme. The ditch was a shallow rounded cut filled with silts and clays, and extended beyond the excavated area. A radiocarbon date from the upper fill of the ditch was from the Iron Age. (Dehaene 2009k) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 18 January 2013 - WI036-038: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI036-038----. This is the record for the fulacht fia partially excavated by Goorik Dehaene (E3238) on the N11 route. The features excavated were a possible trough cut into the clay subsoil, and a burnt spread. Two radiocarbon dates from the trough fill place this feature in the mid/late Bronze Age. (Dehaene 2009l) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 7 January 2013 - WI036-039: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI036-039----. This is the record for the excavation by Goorik Dehaene (E3239) which uncovered various features, including 'a stakehole and postholes and a pit ... associated with early Neolithic pottery and late Neolithic flint and quartz ... it is thought that they form the remnants of hut or shelter' (Dehaene 2009m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 10 January 2013 - WI036-040: Burnt mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI036-040----. This is the record for the excavation by Goorik Dehaene (E3239) which uncovered 'burnt mound activity comprising a trough and possible trough, 11 pits, a posthole, stakeholes, a pit/possible kiln and a burnt spread' (Dehaene 2009m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 10 January 2013 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyvaltron. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballyvaltron, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyvaltron. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyvaltron.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyvaltron.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyvaltron.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyvaltron with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinacor East: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinacor-east.md - Ballyclogh North: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyclogh-north.md - Ballyhara: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyhara-250211.md - Ballynagran: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballynagran-250279.md - Bonagrew: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/bonagrew.md - Dunganstown East: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/dunganstown-east.md - Dunganstown West: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/dunganstown-west.md - Kilmurry North: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kilmurry-north-250881.md - Kilmurry South: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kilmurry-south-250884.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyvaltron - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ballyvaltron