Ballyshane

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyshane, from 1,324 m² to 381,146 m² (38.11 ha, 94.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Ballyshane 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.

• 20 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251335

• 16 Mar 2023N/a

  Permission for the erection of a 30m steel lattice telecommunications mast

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230261

• 27 Aug 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A PART TWO STOREY/PART SINGLE STOREY

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191209

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 Ballyshane.

Recorded monuments

• WX032-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a slight S-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30-35m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (11) 16-19). It is slightly truncated by an WNW-ESE field bank and twonland boundary with Crory Upper at N. 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: 31 August, 2012 Amended: 21 February, 2014

• WX032-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the crest of a S and SE-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) defined by a single fosse feature with an entrance gap at S is visible on aerial photographs (MM (11) 16-17; (50) 32-3). It is also visible as a faint feature on aerial photographs (ASIAP (268) 20, 23-26). 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: 31 August, 2012 Amended: 2 May, 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyshane.

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 Ballyshane, 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_3018 (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.

No address of the register names Ballyshane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballyshane · Baile Sheáin

Area

393,136 m² (39.31 ha, 97.15 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

Ballynaleck, Crory Upper, Crossabeg, Farmhill or Barratober, Garrycleary, Poplar, Sion

Placenames

Ballyshane 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.