Ballygarvey

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygarvey, from 70 m² to 228,402 m² (22.84 ha, 56.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Ballygarvey 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.

• 25 Jun 2026N/a

  Permission for the retention of the renovations and extensions to an existing

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260829

• 22 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, garage and all

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211649

• 19 Jun 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention of alterations and extensions to an existing

  Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20200661

• 23 Nov 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING: CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING TO INCLUD

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181604

• 8 Oct 2018N/a

  PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING: CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181371

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 Ballygarvey.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballygarvey.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three- or five-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey central return (south). Occupied, 1911. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched slate roof (south) with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, rendered coping to gable (south) with rendered chimney stack to apex having capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered walls. Central door opening into farmhouse. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (south) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.

• Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Vacated, 2007. Now disused. Tar-covered hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles extending into clay ridge tiles, rendered off-central chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping, and no rainwater goods surviving on limewashed slate flagged eaves. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed off-central door opening in round-headed recess with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two (ground floor) or three-over-six (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows. Set perpendicular to road.

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 Ballygarvey, 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_3135 (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.

No address of the register names Ballygarvey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballygarvey · Baile Uí Ghairbhíth

Area

729,376 m² (72.94 ha, 180.23 acres)

Civil parish

Kilscoran, 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

Brittas, Bush, Churchtown, Cottage, Ford of Ling, Milltown, Rathdowney, Yoletown

Placenames

Ballygarvey 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.