Ballybro
Ballybro is a townland in the civil parish of Rosslare, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Bró.
Parcel 375480
- Area
- 40,438 m² (4.04 ha, 9.99 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
- Ballybro
Planning applications on this parcel
1 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of the erection of an extension to the rear of an
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260392
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 Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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
- 42.5 ha
- 105 acres
- Land parcels
- 66
- registered freehold, median 2,201 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybro, from 48 m² to 61,504 m² (6.15 ha, 15.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Ballybro 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
25 Jun 2026Refused
Permission to amend condition no. 8 attached to granted permission
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260827
1 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of the erection of an extension to the rear of an
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260392
31 Oct 2023Refused
Pemission for the erection of 3 no. residential dwelling houses
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231318
13 Dec 2022Refused
Permission for the erection of 3 no. residential dwelling houses and all
Permission, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221657
17 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of 10 No. detached dwellings comprising of
Permission, 10 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221527
3 Mar 2022Refused
Permission for the proposed erection of 10 No. detached dwellings
Permission, 10 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220265
21 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for (a) demolition of existing dwelling house (b) proposed erection o
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201224
18 Sept 2020N/a
Permission for (a) demolition of existing dwelling house (b) proposed erection
Permission, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20201086
29 Nov 2018Granted (conditional)
RETENTION PERMISSION FOR 1. THE CHANGE OF HOUSE PLANS CONSTRUCTED FROM THAT PREV
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20181637
16 Nov 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELING HOUSE WITH
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181578
3 Aug 2018Granted (conditional)
OUTLINE PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF 7 NO. FULLY SERVICED
Outline permission · Wexford County Council, 20181064
4 Apr 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS & EXTENSION TO APPROVED PLANNING PERMISSION GRANTED U
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180419
19 Jan 2018Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE CHANGE OF DESIGN OF DOMESTIC GARAGE AS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180046
26 May 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS & EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170649
12 Apr 2016Granted (conditional)
PROPOSED ERECTION OF ALTERATIONS & EXTENSIONS TO IMPROVE & MODERNISE EXISTING LA
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160364
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Wexford Slobs And Harbour 000712
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballybro.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybro.
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 Ballybro, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Ballybro with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybro · Baile Bró
- Area
- 425,138 m² (42.51 ha, 105.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rosslare, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Rosslare, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,234 people lived in 807 households in the Rosslare electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 52% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Churchtown, Drimagh, Drinagh Intake, Hill of Sea, Mauritiustown, Maytown, Rosehill, Rosetown
- Placenames
- Ballybro 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.