Ballygarrett

114 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygarrett, from 4 m² to 217,463 m² (21.75 ha, 53.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Ballygarrett 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.

• 24 Jul 2026Refused

  Permission for the erection of 1 no. fully serviced single storey dwelling

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260992

• 18 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of 2m boundary wall to west,

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251687

• 11 Sept 2025Refused

  Outline planning permission for the erection of 1 no fully serviced dwelling, de

  Outline permission · Wexford County Council, 20251138

• 12 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to change the design of the dwelling house which was previously

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250165

• 19 Dec 2024N/a

  Permission to change the design of the dwelling house which was previously grant

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20241585

• 25 Apr 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230430

• 17 Feb 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for (A) Retention permission for the conversion of a former

  Retention, 7 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230151

• 12 Aug 2020N/a

  Permission for the opening of a preschool setting within an existing classroom

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200921

• 7 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO AN EXISTIN

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190787

• 9 May 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO AN EXISTIN

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190625

• 25 Mar 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR A STANDALONE SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION CONSISTING OF 1 NUMBER

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190362

• 25 Feb 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS CARRIED OUT TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE.

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190233

• 27 Sept 2018Granted (conditional)

  PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A STANDALONE SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION CONSISTING OF 1 NUM

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181328

• 10 Sept 2018N/a

  PERMISSION FOR A STANDALONE SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION CONSISTING OF 1 NUMBER ADDIT

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181236

• 20 Sept 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO THAT PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF. 20

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20161044

• 20 Jul 2016N/a

  RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO THE DWELLING AS A CHANGE TO THAT PERMITTED UNDER PLA

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160824

• 13 Jun 2016N/a

  RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO THE DWELLING AS A CHANGE TO THAT PERMITTED UNDER PLA

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160649

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 Ballygarrett.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballygarrett.

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Star of the Sea, church/chapel, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay double-height Catholic Church, begun 1838; dated 1838, on a rectangular plan comprising four-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (north); single-bay four-stage tower to entrance (south) front on a square plan. Stalled, 1845-57. Completed 1858-9. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables on rendered kneelers with wrought iron Cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered stepped eaves retaining cast-iron square profile downpipes. Replacement gritdashed roughcast walls on rendered plinth; replacement cement rendered surface finish (tower) on battered plinth with cut-granite chamfered stringcourses including cut-granite stringcourse (bell stage) supporting ogee-topped octagonal pinnacles framing crow stepped battlemented parapets having cut-granite coping. Lancet window openings with cut-granite sills, and rusticated rendered block-and-start surrounds with hood mouldings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Tudor-headed window opening (east) with cut-granite sill, and rusticated rendered block-and-start surround with hood moulding framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fitting having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panel. Paired round-headed window openings (tower) with cut-granite lugged surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Tudor-headed opposing door openings ("cheeks") with cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing timber boarded double doors having overpanels. Lancet "Trinity Window" (second stage) with cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Lancet window opening in bipartite arrangement (third stage) with cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Lancet openings (bell stage) with cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing louvered fittings. Interior including vestibule (south) with diagonal timber boarded ceiling; square-headed door opening into nave with replacement glazed timber double doors having sidelights; full-height interior with central aisle between timber pews, timber boarded wainscoting with carved timber dado rail, Gothic-style timber stations between stained glass memorial windows (1946; restored 2008), pair of cut-limestone wall monuments (----), "Acanthus"-detailed decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling with decorative plasterwork ceiling roses in moulded plasterwork frames, and carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (north) reordered, ----, with pointed-arch chancel arch framing reclaimed cut-white marble Gothic-style high altar (1875) below stained glass memorial "North Window" (----). Set in relandscaped grounds.

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 Ballygarrett, 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

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

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

Name

Ballygarrett · Baile Ghearóid

Area

734,015 m² (73.4 ha, 181.38 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen North

Electoral division

Ballygarrett, the unit of the census

Census 2022

922 people lived in 329 households in the Ballygarrett electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinagam Lower, Ballygarrett Little, Gerry, Glascarrig North, Glascarrig South, Parkannesley Lower, Seaview, Tingar

Placenames

Ballygarrett 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.