Ballinastraw Lower

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinastraw Lower, from 447 m² to 460,304 m² (46.03 ha, 113.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballinastraw Lower 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.

• 29 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect an extension to existing dwelling house to provide

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241340

• 20 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct (i) a single-storey extension to rear of existing dwelli

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210574

• 3 Jul 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect 5.0m high LED lighting columns to perimeter of existing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200722

• 11 Dec 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR WORKS TO AN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DETACHED HOUSE (C103SQM) INCLU

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171622

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 Ballinastraw Lower.

Recorded monuments

• WX016-039 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a slight S-facing sloope in a fairly level low-lying landscape. The faint cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 42m E-W; c. 38m N-S) defined by slight traces of a fosse is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP, WX 96, 3–5). It is also visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018) but the fosse is absent SE-SW. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth The above 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 revision: 21 May, 2012 Amended: 6 March 2020

• WX016-069 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated in a slight fold on a gentle E-facing slope. The cropmark of a small enclosure (diam. c. 5m) defined by a continuous fosse is visible only on Google Earth (14/07/2018). It was first reported by Simon Dowling. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 4 March, 2020

• WX016-070 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a rise on a gentle E-facing slope. The cropmark of a small enclosure (diam. c. 6m) defined by a continuous fosse is visible only on Google Earth (14/07/2018). It was first reported by Simon Dowling. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 4 March, 2020

• WX016-075 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a slight N-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 45m) defined by a fosse E-S-W is faintly visible only on iMAPs (2022). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from iMAPs (2023) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 June 2023

• WX016-076 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a slight SE-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a slight fosse with an entrance (Wth c. 5m) at E is faintly visible on iMAPs (2022). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from iMAPs (2022) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 June 2023

• WX016-077 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Located on an E-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular feature (diam. c. 10m) defined by a slight fosse is visible only on iMAPs (2022). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from iMAPs (2022) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 June 2023

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinastraw Lower.

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 Ballinastraw Lower, about 1 in 20 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 Ballinastraw Lower.

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 Ballinastraw Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballinastraw Lower · Baile na Sraithe Íochtarach

Area

1,490,587 m² (149.06 ha, 368.33 acres)

Civil parish

Monamolin, and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Killenagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

638 people lived in 221 households in the Killenagh electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinastraw Upper, Ballinvally, Ballyduff, Courtballyedmond, Cullentra

Placenames

Ballinastraw Lower 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.