Ballycrane
Ballycrane is a townland in the civil parish of Ardcolm, barony of Shelmaliere East, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile an Chorráin.
Parcel 368879
- Area
- 8,787 m² (0.88 ha, 2.17 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Ballycrane
Planning applications on this parcel
31 Jan 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for construction of 12no. dwellings consisting of 4 no. house type
Permission, 12 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250113
19 Jan 2024Refused
Permission for construction of 28 no. dwellings consisting of a 3 no. House type
Permission, 28 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240044
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 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3053 (ZIP).
- 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
- 74.2 ha
- 183 acres
- Land parcels
- 55
- registered freehold, median 2,382 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycrane, from 418 m² to 263,539 m² (26.35 ha, 65.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Ballycrane 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
19 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260056
14 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of alterations to layout and facades of a dwelling
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251480
23 Oct 2025Refused
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251366
11 Sept 2025N/a
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251141
8 May 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the demolition of an existing dwelling, warehouse and shed and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250531
5 Mar 2025N/a
Permission for retention of a fully serviced single-storey studio annexe
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250259
31 Jan 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for construction of 12no. dwellings consisting of 4 no. house type
Permission, 12 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250113
18 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for external and internal alterations
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240692
19 Jan 2024Refused
Permission for construction of 28 no. dwellings consisting of a 3 no. House type
Permission, 28 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240044
22 Dec 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the following; a) construct a new two-storey building comprising
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221721
10 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the extension and alterations to existing single storey dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221326
17 Aug 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of 2 no. advertising sign structures with a total
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221097
11 Aug 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for Retention of a domestic garage/store
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200918
20 Nov 2017Refused
1) PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN INDUSTRIAL UNIT WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WO
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171504
23 Mar 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING GARAGE WITH ALL SSOCIATED SITE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160299
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 Ballycrane.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballycrane.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycrane.
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 Ballycrane, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3054 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballycrane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballycrane · Baile an Chorráin
- Area
- 741,665 m² (74.17 ha, 183.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardcolm, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelmaliere East
- Electoral division
- Ardcavan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,011 people lived in 1,125 households in the Ardcavan electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardcavan, Ardcolm, Ballytramon, Castlebridge, Craanatore, Glebe, Kilmisten, Knottown, Oldtown
- Placenames
- Ballycrane 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.