Ballymoty Beg
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyhuskard, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile an Mhóta Beag
Parcel 396809
- Area
- 3,045 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 170 m² on the ground
- 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
- Ballymoty Beg
Planning applications on this parcel
25 Aug 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230991
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3015 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for 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
- 122.3 ha
- 302 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 3,045 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymoty Beg, from 772 m² to 175,906 m² (17.59 ha, 43.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballymoty Beg 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
25 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251551
7 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associa
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251270
6 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of (A) extensions
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251267
1 Jul 2025Refused
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage with associat
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250802
21 May 2025Refused
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250586
14 May 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house and to carry out associated ancill
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250560
25 Aug 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230991
12 Feb 2021Refused
Permission to erect an agricultural shed for use as an Apiary and storage of mac
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210200
18 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION FOR MODIFICATIONS, EXTENSIONS AND ATTIC CONVERSION CARRIED OUT TO
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190523
11 Mar 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190299
28 Aug 2018Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181170
1 Dec 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE AND GARDEN ROOM WITH ASSOCIATED SITE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171574
19 Dec 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND PERMISSION TO UPGRADE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161418
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 Ballymoty Beg.
Recorded monuments
- WX020-038 Moated site
Description
Situated on a slight shelf in the valley of a NE-SW stream, which is c. 80m to the SE. This is an overgrown rectangular area with raised corners (dims. 33m NE-SW; 28m NW-SE) defined by earthen banks (Wth 5m; int. H 0.5m) and external moats (Wth 6-7m; int. D 2.2-2.3m; ext. D 0.8-1.2m). A small NW-SE stream flows through the SW moat. (Barry 1977, 215, WX 18) 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: 6 June, 2012
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three- or five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Occupied, 1987. "Restored", ----, to accommodate occasional use. Replacement hipped gabled water reed thatch roof overhanging lean-to slate roofs to window openings to dormer attic with chicken wire-covered exposed hazel lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered off-central chimney stack having capping supporting terracotta pots, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed roughcast battered walls. Square-headed central door opening in round- or segmental-headed recess with concrete threshold, and concealed dressings including timber lintel framing replacement glazed timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes; six-over-six timber sash windows to gables to side elevations with two-over-two timber sash windows to rear (north) elevation centred on six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including central lobby with "spy hole". Set in relandscaped grounds including part stone cobbled courtyard.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3015 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballymoty Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballymoty Beg · Baile an Mhóta Beag
- Area
- 1,222,641 m² (122.26 ha, 302.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyhuskard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Ballyhuskard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyhuskard electoral division: 1,705 people in 586 households; 88% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghfin, Ballymoty More, Ballymurtagh, Ballysimon, Clondaw, Coolgarrow, Kilconnib
- Placenames
- Ballymoty Beg 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.