Ballymartin
Ballymartin is a townland in the civil parish of Ardcavan, barony of Shelmaliere East, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Mháirtín.
Parcel 393807
- Area
- 821 m²
- 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
- Ballymartin
Planning applications on this parcel
11 Sept 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for development. The development will consist of
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20201055
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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3092 (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
- 41.6 ha
- 103 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 2,924 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymartin, from 180 m² to 156,158 m² (15.62 ha, 38.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Ballymartin 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
10 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the decommissioning of the existing wastewater treatment system
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251628
12 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erction of 2 no. potting and storage sheds
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250986
5 Nov 2024Refused
Permission to construct an extension to the commercial premises with
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241364
16 May 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a potting shed and storage shed on the site
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230528
11 Jun 2021N/a
Permission for the proposed erection of a new Entrance to site from the public r
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210914
11 Sept 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for development. The development will consist of
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20201055
26 Apr 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ALL WITH ANCILLARY SITE WO
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160421
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 Ballymartin.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymartin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymartin.
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 Ballymartin, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3092 (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 Ballymartin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballymartin · Baile Mháirtín
- Area
- 416,105 m² (41.61 ha, 102.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardcavan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelmaliere East
- Electoral division
- Ardcavan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,011 people lived in 1,125 households in the Ardcavan electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhow Lower, Ballywish, Glasganny, Kilcorral, Pollregan, Sinnottsmill
- Placenames
- Ballymartin 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.