Ballina Upper
Ballina Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Ballyvalloo, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Béal an Átha Uachtarach.
Parcel 386936
- Area
- 54,115 m² (5.41 ha, 13.37 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Ballina Upper
Planning applications on this parcel
28 Nov 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING FOR HOUSING HORSES
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161322
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 low, low, partly inferred.
- 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
- 117.7 ha
- 291 acres
- Land parcels
- 72
- registered freehold, median 10,316 m² (1.03 ha, 2.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballina Upper, from 163 m² to 79,811 m² (7.98 ha, 19.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Ballina 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 May 2026Granted (conditional)
Wexford County Council. Permission for retention is sought from Wexford
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260546
24 Nov 2025Refused
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251539
15 May 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for dwelling modernisation: 1) internal layout changes, 2)
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250567
11 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for development consisting of the retention of an
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231482
28 Nov 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for alterations and extension to existing dwelling and alterations
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231417
29 Nov 2022Refused
Permission for alterations and extension to existing dwelling, and alterations
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221579
22 Mar 2022Refused
Permission for proposed alterations to that granted under planning ref: 20210440
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220366
4 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for development which will consist of a proposed extension and amendm
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210871
26 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for a proposed extension and amendments to existing dwelling includin
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210440
7 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a detached shed. All with associated and ancillar
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201156
18 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191682
29 Apr 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190566
1 Aug 2018Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN, SITE LAYOUT, LOCATION OF PERCOLATION
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181049
20 Apr 2018Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN, SITE LAYOUT, LOCATION OF PERCOLATION
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180515
9 Aug 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING ALL WITH ASSOCIAT
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171059
17 Jul 2017N/a
FOR ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING ALL WITH ASSOCIATED AND ANCI
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170926
12 Jun 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A NEW STRAW BEDDED LIVESTOCK SHED, UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STOR
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170744
28 Nov 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING FOR HOUSING HORSES
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161322
27 Jan 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING FULLY HABITABLE DWELLING HOUSE, THE CO
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160058
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 Ballina Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballina Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballina Upper.
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 Ballina 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 Ballina 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Ballina Upper, Blackwater6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballina Upper · Béal an Átha Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,176,763 m² (117.68 ha, 290.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyvalloo, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Castle Ellis, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,284 people lived in 454 households in the Castle Ellis electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballina, Ballina Lower, Ballyvalloo Lower, Ballyvalloo Upper, Barnariddery, Garryvadden Upper, Inch
- Placenames
- Ballina 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.