Ballymurn Upper

104 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymurn Upper, from 153 m² to 271,102 m² (27.11 ha, 66.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Ballymurn 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.

• 23 Jun 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for an off licence within existing shop with associated works

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260814

• 25 Feb 2025Refused

  Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house with all associated

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250223

• 17 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention for alterations to development of a) the construction

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250190

• 28 Nov 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission to change the two 4 bed detached dwelling houses granted

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231415

• 21 Nov 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct 6 number fully serviced dwelling houses

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231390

• 26 Oct 2023N/a

  Permission to construct 6 number fully serviced dwelling houses

  Permission, 6 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231292

• 24 Oct 2023N/a

  Permission to change the two 4 bed detached dwelling houses granted

  Permission, 6 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231269

• 1 Feb 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for change of use of existing domestic garage to habitable space

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230086

• 22 Dec 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development at this site of approx 4.9 hectares located in the

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221726

• 12 Dec 2022N/a

  Permission for development at this site of approx 4.9 hectares located in the

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221648

• 22 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for two storey extension to include separate annex living space with

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220827

• 8 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct 10 number fully serviced dwelling houses with all

  Permission, 10 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220768

• 25 Feb 2022Refused

  Proposed erection of 13 no. dwellings comprising of: 7no. 2-storey - 4 bedroom

  Permission, 13 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220245

• 28 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for Retention of existing extension to the southeastern side of exist

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211018

• 6 May 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission sought for two storey extension to include bedroom, downstairs bathro

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210690

• 14 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of 2no. single storey domestic garages to the rear and

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20201184

• 23 Sept 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of security fencing and all associated works

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201101

• 18 Nov 2019Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION OF 2 NO. EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191532

• 18 Nov 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191531

• 8 Oct 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF EXTENSIONS TO SIDE AND FRONT TO EXISTING

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181368

• 25 Sept 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIAT

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171267

• 7 Dec 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE & NEW ENTRANCE WI

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161356

• 2 Aug 2016Refused

  ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE & NEW ENTRANCE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED S

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160869

• 20 Jun 2016N/a

  ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE & NEW ENTRANCE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED S

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160691

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 Ballymurn Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymurn Upper.

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Assumption and Saint Malachy, church/chapel, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1832; dated 1832, on a rectangular plan; single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (east) front. "Improved", 1893, producing present composition. Dedicated, 1900. Renovated, 1986, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch); clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gable to entrance (east) front on cut-granite "Cavetto" kneelers with granite ashlar buttressed gabled bellcote to apex framing cast-bronze bell, cut-granite coping to gable (porch) on cut-granite "Cavetto" kneelers with wrought iron Cross finial to apex, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered cut-granite eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated cut-granite quoins to corners. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-granite sills, timber Y-mullions, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Paired lancet window openings to entrance (east) front with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Paired lancet window openings (porch) below cut-granite date stone ("1832"), cut-granite sill, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Square-headed opposing door openings ("cheeks") with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber doors. Interior including vestibule (east) with paired stained glass windows (----); square-headed door opening into nave with replacement glazed timber double doors having sidelights below overlight; full-height interior with choir gallery (east) below stained glass memorial "East Window" (1993), carpeted aisles between trefoil-detailed timber pews, grouped Gothic-style timber stations between stained glass memorial windows (1911), carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (west) reordered, 1986, with "Pietà"-detailed cut-veined white marble panelled altar (1841) below Classical-style reredos, and "Acanthus"-detailed moulded plasterwork cornice to compartmentalised ceiling. Set in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site with roughcast-panelled rendered piers to perimeter having "Cavetto"-detailed pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

• Catholic Church of the Assumption and Saint Malachy, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay two-storey parochial house, built 1859, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting glazed porch to ground floor. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Renovated, 1986. Hipped slate roof with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, paired red brick Running bond central chimney stacks having chevron- or saw tooth-detailed stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered slate flagged eaves. Rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Segmental-headed central door opening into parochial house, doorcase with engaged Ionic columns supporting iron-covered shallow cornice on blind frieze on entablature, and moulded rendered surround framing replacement glazed uPVC door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" block-and-start surrounds centred on keystones framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two (ground floor) or six-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Catholic Church of the Assumption and Saint Malachy.

• Catholic Church of the Assumption and Saint Malachy, mausoleum, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey over basement gable-fronted mortuary chapel, built 1861, on a rectangular plan. Pitched (gable-fronted) limestone flagged roof with Cross finial-topped roll moulded ridge, and no rainwater goods on cut-limestone "Cavetto" cornice. Cut-limestone banded tuck pointed tooled limestone ashlar walls on cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on tooled cut-limestone plinth with buttresses to corners having cut-limestone "slated" coping. Lancet window openings with cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing iron mesh storm panels over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window opening (west) with cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing iron mesh storm panels over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (east) front with cut-granite step threshold, and cut-limestone block-and-start surround having engaged colonette-detailed chamfered reveals framing wrought iron-detailed timber panelled door. Full-height interior with stained glass memorial windows centred on Gothic-style wall monuments (1860; 1942), "lozenge"-detailed Gothic-style altar below stained glass memorial window (----), and vaulted roof with moulded plasterwork ribs on engaged colonettes on "Cavetto" corbels. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Catholic Church of the Assumption and Saint Malachy with wrought iron railings to perimeter centred on wrought iron-detailed timber 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 Ballymurn 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballymurn 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 Ballymurn Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballymurn Upper · Baile Uí Mhurúin Uachtarach

Area

807,693 m² (80.77 ha, 199.59 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmallock, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen South

Electoral division

Kilmallock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,550 people lived in 511 households in the Kilmallock electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykelly, Ballylucas, Ballymurn Lower, Ballynabrigadane, Ballysilla, Kilmallock, Mullaghdarrig

Placenames

Ballymurn 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.