Ballyconran
Ballyconran is a townland in the civil parish of Carnew, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Chonaráin.
Parcel 381404
- Area
- 131,743 m² (13.17 ha, 32.55 acres)
- Buildings
- 8 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,392 m².
- 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
- Ballyconran
Planning applications on this parcel
1 Apr 2026N/a
Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission (relevant outline
Permission consequent, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260393
10 Feb 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission (relevant outline
Permission consequent, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260151
2 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)
Outline permission to construct a dwelling house with domestic garage
Outline permission · Wexford County Council, 20220742
2 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)
Outline permission to construct a dwelling house with domestic garage
Outline permission · Wexford County Council, 20220741
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 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 185.3 ha
- 458 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 5,516 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyconran, from 378 m² to 290,739 m² (29.07 ha, 71.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Ballyconran 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
1 Apr 2026N/a
Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission (relevant outline
Permission consequent, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260393
10 Feb 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission (relevant outline
Permission consequent, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260151
2 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)
Outline permission to construct a dwelling house with domestic garage
Outline permission · Wexford County Council, 20220742
2 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)
Outline permission to construct a dwelling house with domestic garage
Outline permission · Wexford County Council, 20220741
21 Dec 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ALTER PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PL. REG.
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181806
8 Mar 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH CAR PORT AND DOMESTIC GARAG, SERV
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180270
10 Oct 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH AND REPLACE A SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT DWELLING HOUSE WITH A
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161118
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 Ballyconran.
Recorded monuments
- WX006-036 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a N-facing slope of a short E-W ridge with a S-N spur extending N from the ridge c. 500m to the E. This is a circular, grass-covered area (diam. 30m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6–9m; int. H 1–1.8m; ext. H 3m). There is no visible fosse, but a record made in 1939 recrods a fosse (Wth of top c. 4.5m; int. D c. 1.5m; ext. D c. 1m) SE-SW (OSFM). The entrance (Wth 4.5m) is at NW, on the downslope side. 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: 22 November 2012
- WX006-082 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Marked as a small circular feature (diam. c. 25) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope. No feature is visible at ground level in a farmyard and there is no local knowledge of an antiquity. 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: 2 March, 2012 Amended: 15 May, 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyconran.
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 Ballyconran, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyconran.
- 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 Ballyconran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyconran · Baile Uí Chonaráin
- Area
- 1,852,797 m² (185.28 ha, 457.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carnew, and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- Monaseed, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 725 people lived in 226 households in the Monaseed electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brideswell Little, Clonamona Upper, Drummond, Knockbrandon Lower, Knockbrandon Upper, Monbay Upper
- Placenames
- Ballyconran 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.