Ballinamorragh

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinamorragh, from 28 m² to 214,036 m² (21.4 ha, 52.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Ballinamorragh 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.

• 16 May 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the demolition of an extension to the rear of an existing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230529

• 18 Apr 2023N/a

  Permission for the demolition of an extension to the rear of an existing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230403

• 20 May 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for disconnection of outfall pipe from existing percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220673

• 27 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a dwelling house and a domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210098

• 20 Dec 2018Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE & A DOMESTIC GARAGE ALL WITH

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181789

• 5 Sept 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE DEMOLITION OF X2 AGRICULTURAL SHEDS & FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171198

• 27 Jan 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE TO REAR OF GARDEN CENTRE SALE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170069

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Wexford Harbour and Slobs SPA 004076
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Wexford Slobs And Harbour 000712

Recorded monuments

• WX038-003 Castle - motte
  Description

  Located on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape close to the original N shore of Wexford Harbour which is c. 240-360m to the E and S. This is an overgrown and flat-topped earthen mound (diam. of base 27m; diam. of top 13m; H 5m) defined by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3-4m; D c. 0.5m). Around 1220-30 the Roches of Fernegenel sub-infeudated Ardcolm parish to the Sinotts and this motte may have become their caput (Brooks 1950, 147-8; Colfer 2002, 105). 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: 18 January 2013

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Refenestrated, ----. Reroofed, ----. Replacement hipped oat thatch roof with chicken wire-covered exposed hazel stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, rendered off-central chimney stack having red brick stepped capping, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Roughcast battered walls on rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" strips to corners supporting rendered band to eaves. Square-headed central door opening in segmental-headed recess with concrete threshold, and concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Remodelled square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings to gables to side elevations with concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in farmyard on a corner site with rendered diagonal piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting tubular steel "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 Ballinamorragh, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3129 (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.

• Ballinamorragh, Curracloe6 sales

Name

Ballinamorragh · Baile na Murbhach

Area

640,371 m² (64.04 ha, 158.24 acres)

Civil parish

Ardcolm, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere East

Electoral division

Ardcolm, the unit of the census

Census 2022

982 people lived in 368 households in the Ardcolm electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballina, Ballinacoola More, Garrygibbon, Johnstown, North East Slob

Placenames

Ballinamorragh 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.