Ballywaltrin
Townland in the civil parish of Bray, barony of Rathdown, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Bhaltraim
- Area
- 46.3 ha
- 114 acres
- Land parcels
- 413
- registered freehold, median 202 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 66
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
413 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballywaltrin, from 3 m² to 48,059 m² (4.81 ha, 11.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 65 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 402 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 37 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community & Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4Active Open Space (Active open space)
Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Passive Open Space (Open space, park)
Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Aug 2026N/a
1. proposed conversion of existing garages into habitable space and removal of associated garage doors, 2. proposed new cladding, windows & entrance doors to ground floor front façade with full width standing seam canopy over, to all 3 townhouse units, 3. revised boundary wall location to No.1 & No.3 Fitzsimons House, 4. all modifications and ancillary site work
Permission, 3 homes · Wicklow County Council, 2660719
23 Jul 2026Conditional
attic conversion with hip roof to gable and dormer to rear roof to accommodate stairs to allow access to attic conversion as bedroom with roof windows to front and rear all with associated ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660650
16 Jul 2026N/a
attic conversion with hip roof to gable and dormer to rear roof to accommodate stairs to allow access to attic conversion as bedroom with roof windows to front and rear all with associated ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660635
30 Jun 2026Conditional
single Storey flat roofed extension of 29.63m2 comprising a Family Room, Games Room and Utility Room to the North West side Elevation of the existing dwelling and associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660592
29 Jun 2026N/a
single storey flat roofed extension of 29.63m2 comprising a family room, games room and utility room to the north west side elevation of the existing dwelling and associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660587
15 May 2026Conditional
change of use of part of the first floor from ‘office’ to ‘health centre or clinic’ measuring 307.1 sqm.
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660419
1 May 2026Refused
attic conversion with dormer to side to accommodate stairs to allow access to attic conversion as bedroom with roof windows to front and rear all with associated ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660365
2 Mar 2026Conditional
construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the attached single storey garage, the fitting of a rooflight to the side roof of the garage and alterations to the garage roof and to two windows on the side elevation at first floor level above the garage roof
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660147
28 Nov 2025Conditional
1. demolition of existing single story office building and redundant outbuilding; 2. provision of staff car parking for existing building to be retained. 3. provision of external drive-up storage units in 5 separate clusters; 4. identification signage and all associated surface and site works to include upgrading of landscaping, fencing and gates as necessary
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560968
8 Jul 2025Conditional
a single storey pitched roof extension to the side of the existing house (circa 39 Sq/M) & all associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560510
4 Jul 2025Conditional
4 no. rooflights to north facing slope of roof to existing attic storage area of dwelling
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560499
4 Jun 2025Conditional
1. proposed change of use of 1 of 4 No. existing astro football pitches to 1 No. padel court complete with proposed covered all weather enclosure. 3 No. astro football pitches retained. 2. all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560416
20 May 2025N/a
4 no. rooflights to north facing slope of roof to existing attic storage area of dwelling
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560365
15 Apr 2025N/a
1. proposed change of use of 1 of 4 No. existing astro football pitches to 1 No. padel court complete with proposed covered all weather enclosure. 3 No. astro football pitches retained. 2. All ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560280
30 Jan 2025Conditional
attic conversion with hip to gable roof and dormer to rear roof to accommodate stairs to allow access to attic conversion as non habitable storage space with roof windows to front all with associated ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560050
9 Dec 2024Refused
provision of a single storey Dublin Bus Drivers welfare facility to incorporate a self-cleansing unisex WC, this facility is approx. 7.13 square metres together with all associated site works adjacent to bus stop 7574
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24483
2 Oct 2024N/a
proposed dwelling with connection to services, entrance and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 24389
18 Apr 2024Conditional
two storey extension and attic conversion with flat roof dormer extension to rear of existing semi detached two storey dwelling to provide extended kitchen and accommodation, incorporating obscured glazing to side of ground floor of new extension, alterations to fenestration to existing dwelling. Minor internal alterations and associated siteworks
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460220
24 Oct 2023N/a
the construction of 2no. dwellings, upgrading of the existing access laneway, together with associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360372
18 Oct 2023Conditional
construction of new single story extension to rear and side, enlargement of existing window with added glass balustrade to front elevation including all associated site works to an existing two storey plus dormer semi-detached dwelling
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360355
11 Oct 2023N/a
construction of new single story extension to rear and side, enlargement of existing window with added glass balustrade to front elevation including all associated site works to an existing two storey plus dormer semi-detached dwelling
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360335
5 Jul 2023Unconditional
construction of a concrete skate park, including installation of associated skate features/furniture and the relocation of existing bring facility (bottle banks)
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23583
26 May 2023N/a
Two storey extension to rear of existing semi detached dwelling to provide extended kitchen and bedroom accommodation, incorporating obscured glazing to side of ground floor of new extension, alterations to fenestration to existing dwelling. Minor internal alterations and associated siteworks
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360068
6 Mar 2023Conditional
two storey flat roof extension to rear of existing house to include 2 new bedrooms, utility, kitchen/dining/living space, internal alterations and all associated site works.
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23216
23 Nov 2022Conditional
development consists of 1) Construction of attic bedroom extension with dormer roof window to rear slope of roof 2)construction of new detached home office in the rear garden with all associated site development work, drainage and landscaping to accommodate the home office
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 221242
The 25 most recent of 66 applications.
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 Ballywaltrin.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballywaltrin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballywaltrin.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3341 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballywaltrin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballywaltrin · Baile Bhaltraim
- Area
- 463,161 m² (46.32 ha, 114.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Bray, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathdown
- Electoral division
- Kilmacanoge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmacanoge electoral division: 15,082 people in 4,983 households; 74% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymorris, Giltspur, Hollybrook, Irishtown, Kilbride, Kilcroney, Oldcourt, Springfield, Wingfield
- Placenames
- Ballywaltrin 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.