Ballymorris
Townland in the civil parish of St. Peter's, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Mhuiris
Parcel 406501
- Area
- 1,279 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 60 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
- Ballymorris
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
- About 1 in 20 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_2986 (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
- 57.4 ha
- 142 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 3,882 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 25
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymorris, from 33 m² to 79,859 m² (7.99 ha, 19.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 42 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 Ballymorris 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
22 Jun 2026Refused
Permission for the proposed development which will consist of high-power
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260804
5 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house with an attached
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250959
13 May 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to change the proposed 2-storey house type permitted under
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240531
24 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231277
7 Jun 2023Refused
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230645
22 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of the following 1. Alterations and extension to
Retention, 4 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221543
30 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220879
10 Jun 2022Refused
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220781
27 May 2022N/a
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220705
27 May 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to upgrade existing on-site effluent disposal system and all associat
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220704
29 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of alterations and extensions to an existing dwelling
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220565
19 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of an extension to the rear and side of existing
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220502
8 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of an existing garage, gym and sheds at the rear of
Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220453
6 Sept 2021Refused
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211414
24 Jul 2020Granted (conditional)
Retention permission for a single storey extension tot he existing fully service
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200827
25 May 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced Dwelling House and deta
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200531
2 Dec 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191593
26 Nov 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191569
24 Sept 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO AN EXISTIN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191314
1 May 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190595
30 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A NEW FULLY SERVICED TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190577
7 Dec 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171606
28 Sept 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION FOR THE EXTENSION AS CONSTRUCTED TO THE EXISTING
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20161063
20 Sept 2016N/a
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION FOR THE EXTENSION AS CONSTRUCTED TO THE EXISTING DWELL
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20161045
7 Sept 2016Granted (conditional)
ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160999
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 Ballymorris.
Recorded monuments
- WX042-004 Windmill
Description
Marked only on the 1925 ed. of the OS 6 inch map, and situated on a level, low-lying landscape. This is a conical tower with opposing doorways (ext. diam. 6.6m; int. diam. 4.8m) surviving almost complete (H c. 6.2m). There are three storeys but only one window on the first floor at NE is in evidence. 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: 24 May, 2013
Architectural heritage
- Mill (wind), 1842–1901 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding single-bay three-stage tapering windmill tower, extant 1901, on a circular plan. In ruins, 1903. Roof now missing. Roughcast battered walls over coursed rubble stone construction. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings. Square-headed window openings (upper stages) with concealed dressings. Interior in ruins. Set in relandscaped grounds.
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 20 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_2986 (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 Ballymorris with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballymorris · Baile Mhuiris
- Area
- 574,465 m² (57.45 ha, 141.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Peter's, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Carrick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrick electoral division: 1,831 people in 630 households; 89% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonard Great, Clonard Little, Hayestown Great, Larkinstown, Newbay
- Placenames
- Ballymorris 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.