Ballysampson

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballysampson, from 1,000 m² to 188,285 m² (18.83 ha, 46.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Ballysampson 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.

• 7 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permisssion for the erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240643

• 9 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230650

• 29 Jun 2016Refused

  PERMISSION CONSEQUENT TO GRANT OF OUTLINE PLANNING PERMISSION 20120945 FOR THE C

  Permission consequent · Wexford County Council, 20160740

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 Ballysampson.

Recorded monuments

• WX048-022 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape. The cropmark of a rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 40m N-S; c. 40m E-W) is visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: AIC 45; BGF 58). It is defined by a single fosse feature but it is not visible at ground level in a cereal crop. 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 upload/revision: 3 January 2014

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1745 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1745, on a T-shaped plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak; single-bay (two-bay deep) full-height central return (east). Occupied, 1901; 1911. Reroofed, 1959. Replacement pitched fibre-cement slate roof on a T-shaped plan; pitched slate roof (east), ridge tiles centred on rendered battered chimney stack having red brick stepped capping, concrete or rendered coping to gable (east) with rendered chimney stack to apex having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast battered walls on rendered plinth; roughcast surface finish (east). Camber- or segmental-headed off-central door opening with cut-granite threshold, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door having oversailing fanlight. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes; (north) two-over-two (ground floor) or three-over-three (half-dormer attic) or (south) one-over-one (ground floor) or six-over-six (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings (east) with concealed dressings framing one-over-one (ground floor) or six-over-six (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with limewashed piers to perimeter having rubble stone soldier course capping supporting replacement mild steel gate.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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_3136 (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 Ballysampson with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballysampson · Baile Shamsóin

Area

618,523 m² (61.85 ha, 152.84 acres)

Civil parish

Tacumshin, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Kilscoran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilscoran electoral division: 1,073 people in 388 households; 84% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycorboys Big, Ballymacushin, Ballyregan, Bennettstown, Shilmaine, Trimmer, Twelveacre

Placenames

Ballysampson 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.