Ballyward

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyward, from 88 m² to 909,881 m² (90.99 ha, 224.84 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyward 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 Ballyward 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 Ballyward.

Recorded monuments

• WI005-004 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle W-facing slope. Circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m), visible as cropmark on aerial photographs (GSIAP, O 89-90). Not visible at ground level. 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

• WI005-039 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  One of three circular enclosures (see WI005-039001-, WI005-039002-) (diam. 12.2m) defined by a wall of rectangular stones two courses high (Wth 1.1-1.2m; H 0.5-0.9m). The interiors of two of the circles are domed (H 0.4m). Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 05 December 2012

• WI005-039001 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  One of three circular enclosures (see WI005-039----, WI005-039002-) (diam. 11.1m) defined by a wall of rectangular stones two courses high (Wth 1.1-1.2m; H 0.5-0.9m). The interiors of two of the circles are domed (H 0.4m). Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 05 December 2012

• WI005-039002 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  One of three circular enclosures (see WI005-039----, WI005-039002-) (diam. 11.5m) defined by a wall of rectangular stones two courses high (Wth 1.1-1.2m; H 0.5-0.9m). The interiors of two of the circles are domed (H 0.4m). Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 05 December 2012

• WI005-040 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a W-facing slope at the N end of a NW-SE ridge. Circular enclosure (est. max. diam. c. 40m) visible as cropmark on aerial photographs (GSIAP, O 89-90). 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

• WI005-041001 Enclosure
  Description

  Listed as a 'ringfort' in the SMR (1986) and as a possible 'enclosure' (diam. c. 38m N-S; 43m E-W) in the RMP (1995) based on cartographic evidence. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 05 December 2012

• WI005-041002 Hut site
  Description

  A note in the SMR file for enclosure (WI005-041001-) mentions a hut site in the interior. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 05 December 2012

• WI005-115001 Enclosure
  Description

  On a gradual W-facing slope. Heavily overgrown with forestry and bracken. An oval area (diam c. 40m) enclosed by a stony bank (Wth 2m; H 0.8m) well preserved along the N side but much reduced elsewhere, especially along the W where it has been reduced to a scarp. Entrance at W (Wth 1.8m) defined on its S side by a large granite boulder set on edge (L 1.1m; H 0.6m). Hut site (WI005-115002-) in the E quadrant. At the NE an annex abuts the main enclosure. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 11 December 2012

• WI005-115002 Hut site
  Description

  On a gradual W-facing slope. In the E quadrant of an enclosure (WI005-115001-). The hut site (c. 5.7m E-W; 5.4m N-S) is defined by a collapsed stone wall with a possible entrance at W. There is a tree in its NW quadrant. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 11 December 2012

• WI005-115003 Hut site
  Description

  In forestry, on a gradual W-facing slope. c. 20m to the S of enclosure WI005-115001-. The hut site (diam. c. 5m) is defined by a low moss-covered stone bank. There is a possible entrance at the NE and a tree planted at the N side. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 11 December 2012

• WI005-116 Enclosure
  Description

  On a gentle NE/E-facing slope of a hill in mature pine forestry. Circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m) with a slightly 'dished' interior. The perimeter appears broken along the N but otherwise consists of a jumble of granite stones. There are occasional large stones that would appear to be set. There are tree stumps in both the N and S quadrants. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 11 December 2012

• WI005-117 Enclosure
  Description

  In forestry on a W-facing slope. Not listed in the SMR (1986) or RMP (1995). A small circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m) depicted on 1907 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 11 December 2012

• WI005-118 Enclosure
  Description

  In forestry on a W-facing slope. Not listed in the SMR (1986) or RMP (1995). A small circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m) depicted on 1907 OS 6-inch map. 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 Ballyward.

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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3012 (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.

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

Name

Ballyward · Baile an Bhaird

Area

1,400,271 m² (140.03 ha, 346.01 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

Ballyfoyle, Ballynasculloge Lower, Ballysmuttan Lower, Kilbride, Oldcourt, Threecastles

Placenames

Ballyward 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.