Ballytrent

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballytrent, from 679 m² to 10,753 m² (1.08 ha, 2.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Ballytrent 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.

• 22 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of two single storey extensions A) South West side

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211638

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 Ballytrent.

Recorded monuments

• WX048-049 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Located at the E edge of a gently rolling landscape with the ground sloping down to clay cliffs (H c. 10m) overlooking the sea shore c. 300m to the SE. The monument is described as a rath with two banks attributed to the Danes by Sutton writing c. 1680 (Hore 1862 3, 63; 1921, 56). It is described in italic lettering on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as Mulgrave Rath Observatory. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 this name was applied to the monument by the proprietor after Lord Mulgrave, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1835-9). The proprietor had also installed an observatory in it and built the wall around it (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 275). The monument is a slightly domed circular area (int. diam. 62m) defined by an earthen bank (at S: Wth 9m; int. and ext. H 3m) separated by berm (at S: Wth 6.5-8.5m) from an outer bank (at S: Wth 11-15.5m; int. H 4-4.5m; ext. H 5.5m). The centre is cultivated as an ornamental garden with tunnels through the banks and a masonry wall (H 1.5-2.5m) is retaining the outside of the outer bank (max. ext. diam. c. 120m). The banks are supporting mature deciduous trees. No original entrances or excavated fosses are visible. There was reputed to be an underground cave or souterrain at its centre that was discovered in 1908 (SMR file). The exact classification of this enclosure is difficult to determine. Dalton (1921, 31-3) considered it a possible sub-Roman/Celtic cult-centre. Its large scale, and the scale and regularity of its banks suggests that it might have fulfilled a ceremonial rather than a domestic or defensive role. The larger outer bank adds to this interpretation, but there is a complete lack of other recognisable burial or ceremonial monuments in the vicinity. 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: 3 January 2014

• WX048-049001 Souterrain
  Description

  Located at the E edge of a gently rolling landscape with the ground sloping down to the sea shore c. 300m to the SE. There was reputed to be an underground cave or souterrain that was discovered in 1908 at the centre of the large enclosure (WX048-049----) (SMR file). It is not evident now. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 January, 2014

• WX048-124 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a SE-facing slope, with the sea shore c. 180m to the SE. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 2-3m) with an entrance gap at SE is visible on aerial photographs (MM (6) 5-6; ASIAP (5) 19-27). 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 January 2014

• WX048-125 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a SE-facing slope. The cropmark of subrectangular enclosure (dims. c. 50m WNW-ESE; c. 40m NNE-SSW) defined by a wide fosse feature (Wth c. 3-5m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (6) 8-9; ASIAP (5) 19-27; (226) 18, 19, 21). Rath (WX048-124----) is c. 170m to the NE, and the large double-banked ceremonial enclosure (WX048-049----) is c. 450m to the WSW. The abpve 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 January, 2014

Architectural heritage

• Ballytrent House, country house, 1700–1798 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey over part raised basement country house, extant 1798, on an E-shaped plan with single-bay full-height advanced end bays centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; single-bay (two-bay deep) full-height returns (west) centred on single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height return. Sold, 1799. In occasional use, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1921. Repaired, 1945. Hipped slate roof on an E-shaped plan with pitched slate roofs (west) centred on hipped slate roof, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta or yellow octagonal or terracotta tapered pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Fine roughcast walls with rendered band to eaves; part creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast slate hung surface finish to rear (west) elevations. Bisected segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of eight cut-granite steps between wrought iron railings with cut-granite block-and-start surround framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing nine-over-six (ground floor) or six-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows without horns. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (end bays) with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing nine-over-six (ground floor) or six-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows without horns having three-over-two (ground floor) or two-over-two (first floor) sidelights. Square-headed window openings to rear (west) elevation centred on round-headed window opening (half-landing) with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows centred on six-over-six timber sash window having fanlight. Interior including (ground floor): central entrance hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds with cylindrical piers to perimeter having moss-covered conical capping.

• Ballytrent House, walled garden, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden, built 1835-6, on a circular plan with part creeper- or ivy-covered boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown rounded coping centred on red brick Running bond piers supporting timber boarded double gates. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Ballytrent House.

• Milestone/milepost, 1842–1903 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding inscribed cut-granite milestone, extant 1903. Road fronted.

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 Ballytrent, 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballytrent.

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 Ballytrent with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballytrent · Baile Treaint

Area

447,412 m² (44.74 ha, 110.56 acres)

Civil parish

Kilrane, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

St. Helen's, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,719 people lived in 1,005 households in the St. Helen's electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyreilly, Hilltown, Newhouses, Oldmill

Placenames

Ballytrent 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.