Ballyfane
Ballyfane is a townland in the civil parish of Carn, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Anfáin.
Parcel 2638575
- Area
- 249 m²
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 256 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballyfane
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 34.1 ha
- 84 acres
- Land parcels
- 59
- registered freehold, median 235 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfane, from 7 m² to 177,129 m² (17.71 ha, 43.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyfane 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Jul 2026Refused
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260938
24 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a gymnasium building incorporating
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241159
13 Jul 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for Retention of slight alterations to extension to dwelling approved
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230811
13 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of an agricultural produce store, together
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220951
6 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house to replace former
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211269
2 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of permanent lighting over existing walking track gr
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211044
30 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the development of a holiday park comprising 49 No. static mobile
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210655
16 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of 1) An all-weather outdoor training facility a
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201556
27 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF THE FOLLOWING: RETENTION OF STAFF HOUSE, DETACHED
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190905
14 Jun 2019N/a
RETENTION OF THE FOLLOWING: (1) RETENTION OF STAFF HOUSE AND ENTRANCE AS CONSTR
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190825
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 Ballyfane.
Recorded monuments
- WX053-084 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight E-facing slope. The cropmark of a bivallate circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 30m; ext. diam. c. 45m) is visible on aerial photographs (OPWAP, 26981, 15-18). A wide drain or stream bed (Wth c. 5m) approaches from the S, enters the inner fosse feature which it follows around to the NW, and exits in a NW direction. Entrances cannot be identified. The abpve description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 21 March 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyfane.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyfane, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyfane.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyfane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyfane · Baile Anfáin
- Area
- 341,471 m² (34.15 ha, 84.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carn, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Lady's Island, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 625 people lived in 249 households in the Lady's Island electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballysheen, Buncarrick, Castlepaliser, Cousinstown, Nineteenacres
- Placenames
- Ballyfane 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.