Ballytruckle

1,316 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballytruckle, from 0 m² to 51,603 m² (5.16 ha, 12.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 59 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2RS (Existing residential)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 1,160 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M5GB (Other mix of uses)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 56 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS (Open space, park)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 42 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C7CD (Other commerce/industrial/enterprise uses)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3HA (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3CI (Community facilities)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballytruckle 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

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilbarry Bog 001700

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballytruckle.

Architectural heritage

• Elysium House, house, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over raised basement house, c.1825, with two-bay single-storey return to north-west. Refenestrated, pre-1999. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls (ivy-clad) with rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings (originally in tripartite arrangement to ground floor) with stone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows, pre-1999. Round-headed door opening approached by flight of eight cut-stone steps with replacement timber panelled door, c.1975, leaded sidelights, and spoked fanlight. Set back from road in own grounds with gravel forecourt having pair of unpainted rendered piers with replacement steel double gates, pre-1999, replacement steel flanking pedestrian gates, pre-1999, and unpainted rendered outer piers.

• Saint Angela's Ursuline Convent, school, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay three-storey over basement convent school with dormer attic, c.1900, retaining original aspect with two-bay single-storey advanced end bay to north-east, six-bay single-storey flat-roofed parallel range to north-west, and seven-bay single-storey lean-to parallel range along rear (south-west) elevation. Now disused. Pitched and hipped slate roofs (lean-to to parallel range to south-west) with decorative red clay ridge tiles, yellow brick Running bond chimney stack, cut-stone coping having cross finial to apex, square rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on moulded rendered eaves. Flat felt roof to parallel range to front (north-east) elevation with timber eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered channelled piers to corners. Shallow segmental-headed window openings (round-headed to gables to side elevations to north-west and to south-east) with stone sills. 2/2 and 4/4 timber sash windows. Shallow segmental-headed door opening with six cut-limestone steps having painted rendered parapets with cut-limestone coping, cast-iron railings over, and replacement glazed tongue-and-groove timber panelled door, pre-1999. Set back from road in grounds shared with Ursuline Convent having random rubble stone boundary wall to site with painted rendered piers.

• Saint Angela's Ursuline Convent, convent/nunnery, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay three-storey convent, c.1850, possibly over basement retaining original fenestration with four-bay three-storey side elevations, and ten-bay three-storey return to north-west. Renovated, c.1900, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch added to centre. Now disused. Hipped slate roofs on a quadrangular plan (pitched to return) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron brackets. Flat roof to porch not visible behind parapet. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered channelled piers to corners. Unpainted rendered walls to porch with cut-stone coping to parapet having cross finial. Square-headed window openings with stone sills. 6/6 and 9/6 timber sash windows with some 4/4 timber sash windows to side elevation to north-east. Square-headed window opening to porch with stone sill, and 2/2 timber sash window having horizontal-bias to glazing pattern. Shallow segmental-headed door opening with moulded reveals, and glazed timber panelled door. Interior with decorative clay tiled floors, timber panelled wainscoting, carved timber joinery, and decorative plasterwork. Set back from toad in own grounds with tarmacadam forecourt, and landscaped grounds to site. (ii) Gateway, c.1900, to south-east comprising pair of cut-limestone piers with replacement steel double gates, post-1999, sections of hoop iron flanking curved railings on unpainted rendered plinth, cut-limestone outer piers, and sections of random rubble stone boundary walls to perimeter of site incorporating square-headed pedestrian gateway to south-west with cut-granite block-and-start surround having keystone, chamfered reveals and hoop iron gate.

• Saint Angela's Ursuline Convent, church/chapel, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached eight-bay double-height Catholic chapel, c.1900, on a T-shaped plan comprising seven-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height lower transepts to west and to east having single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to east, and single-bay double-height lower shallow bowed apse to north with four-bay single-storey sacristy to north-east. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to porch; half-conical to apse; hipped to sacristy) with red clay ridge tiles (rolled lead ridge tiles to sacristy), cross finial to apex to north, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves having corbelled moulded cornice to apse. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered course to first floor, limestone ashlar dressings to transepts including full-height corner piers, square recessed panels to apse on moulded stringcourse, and cut-limestone quoins to corners to sacristy. Round-headed window openings (in square-headed recessed panels to nave) with cut-limestone sills, cut-limestone surrounds, and fixed-pane timber windows. Diocletian window openings to transepts in tripartite arrangement with cut-stone sill (forming sill course), cut-limestone surrounds, and fixed-pane timber windows. Round-headed door opening to porch with cut-limestone columnar doorcase on pedestals supporting archivolt, moulded reveals, and timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window openings to sacristy with cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone surrounds. 1/1 and 2/2 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening to sacristy with cut-limestone surround having moulded reveals, and timber panelled door. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings to sacristy. Set back from road in grounds shared with Saint Angela’s Ursuline Convent.

• Saint Angela's Ursuline Convent, school, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached fifteen-bay three-storey school with attic, c.1875, on a symmetrical plan comprising three-bay three-storey pedimented breakfront with six-bay three-storey flanking lateral wings to north and to south. Extensively renovated, c.2000. Hipped roof (gabled to pediment) with replacement artificial slate, c.2000, clay ridge tiles, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.2000, on rendered eaves retaining original cast-iron downpipes. Unpainted rendered walls with cut-limestone courses to each floor, rendered channelled piers to ends to breakfront, and moulded rendered surround to pediment having cross finial to apex. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills (forming sill courses to each floor), and rendered surrounds to breakfront having moulded entablatures to ground and to first floor. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.2000. Oculus window opening to pediment with rendered block-and-start surround, and fixed-pane fitting. Round-headed door opening with two cut-limestone steps, rendered pilaster doorcase having cornice, rendered archivolt with cut-limestone keystone, timber panelled double doors, and fanlight. Set back from road in grounds shared with Saint Angela’s Ursuline Convent.

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 Ballytruckle, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballytruckle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Ballytruckle · Baile Throcail

Area

1,102,355 m² (110.24 ha, 272.4 acres)

Civil parish

St. John's Without, and its townlands

Electoral division

Ballytruckle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

6,563 people lived in 2,265 households in the Ballytruckle electoral division. 58% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycourdra, Carrigroe, Grange Lower, Kilbarry, Kilcohan, Kingsmeadow, Manor, Priorsknock, Williamstown

Placenames

Ballytruckle 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.