Ballyregan or Fairyhill
Ballyregan or Fairyhill is a townland in the civil parish of Artramon, barony of Shelmaliere East, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Riagáin.
Parcel 388489
- Area
- 514 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 155 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
- Ballyregan or Fairyhill
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3053 (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.
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
- 53.5 ha
- 132 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 508 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyregan or Fairyhill, from 13 m² to 434,121 m² (43.41 ha, 107.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 2 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 Ballyregan or Fairyhill 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
8 Feb 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for retention of a balcony to the side of an existing
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210172
28 May 2019Refused
PERMISSION AT BALLYREGAN, BALLYBOGGAN, THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF A RETIREM
Permission, 20 homes · Wexford County Council, 20190740
22 May 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH CONCRETE APRON AND ASSOCIA
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170630
27 Mar 2017N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH CONCRETE APRON AND ASSOCIA
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170357
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
- Special Protection Area: Wexford Harbour and Slobs SPA 004076
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Wexford Slobs And Harbour 000712
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyregan or Fairyhill.
Architectural heritage
- Fairyhill House, farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey double-pile farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Leased, 1901. Occupied, 1911. Undergoing "restoration", 2007. Replacement pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with ridge tiles, lichen-spotted cut-granite coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having concrete capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, rooflights to front (south) pitch, and uPVC rainwater goods on boxed eaves. Gritdashed roughcast wall to front (south) elevation bellcast over rendered plinth with rendered flush band to eaves; limewashed rendered surface finish (remainder). Round- or segmental-headed central door opening with cast-iron bootscrapers originally centred on threshold, remains of timber doorcase with panelled pilasters supporting shallow cornice on flush beaded frieze, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled door having sidelights on panelled risers below fanlight. Square-headed window openings centred on round-headed window opening (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement six-over-six sash windows without horns. Set in own grounds.
- Poulsack Bridge, bridge, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Three-arch hump back road bridge over river, extant 1840. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers having pyramidal capping with rendered coping to parapets. Series of three segmental arches with roughcast voussoirs. Sited spanning River Sow with unkempt banks to river.
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 Ballyregan or Fairyhill, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3053 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyregan or Fairyhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyregan or Fairyhill · Baile Uí Riagáin
- Area
- 535,471 m² (53.55 ha, 132.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Artramon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelmaliere East
- Electoral division
- Artramon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 807 people lived in 263 households in the Artramon electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Artramon, Ballyboggan Lower
- Placenames
- Ballyregan or Fairyhill 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.