Ballyharran Upper

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyharran Upper, from 30 m² to 95,790 m² (9.58 ha, 23.67 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 Ballyharran Upper 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 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for demolition of existing dwelling and erection of a replacement

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221568

• 1 Apr 2022Refused

  Permission for erection of a replacement dwelling house, conversion of existing

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220430

• 15 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)

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

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211454

• 8 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling, domestic garage, t

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211082

• 27 Oct 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A NEW STRAW BED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ANCILLA

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171394

• 25 May 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARA

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160565

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyharran Upper.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectagular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Reroofed, ----. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Limewashed roughcast battered walls. Square-headed off-central door opening in elliptical- or segmental-headed recess with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with limewashed sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows with four-over-four timber sash windows to gables to side elevations. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with limewashed piers to perimeter supporting replacement timber gate.

• Outbuilding, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey thatched outbuilding, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Corrugated-iron-covered hipped oat thatch roof on collared split bough construction with pressed iron ridge, and cast-iron rainwater goods on limewashed eaves. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls. Pair of square-headed door openings (north) with concealed dressings including timber lintels framing sheet steel half-doors. Set in shared grounds.

• Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Undergoing "restoration", 2007. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat or wheat thatch roof on collared timber construction, exposed hazel lattice stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered central chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pot, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls with concealed red brick flush quoins to corners. Square-headed off-central door opening with concrete threshold, and concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and concealed lintels framing six-over-six (south) or one-over-one (north) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including lobby retaining "spy hole". Set in landscaped grounds with cement rendered piers to perimeter having moss-covered shallow pyramidal capping supporting flat iron "farm 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

At the centre of the townland of Ballyharran Upper, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyharran Upper · Baile Tharcháin Uachtarach

Area

636,971 m² (63.7 ha, 157.4 acres)

Civil parish

Tikillin, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere East

Electoral division

Kilpatrick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

762 people lived in 260 households in the Kilpatrick electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyharran Lower, Ballywater, Newcastle Upper, Tikillin

Placenames

Ballyharran Upper 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.