Ballyharran Lower

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyharran Lower, from 169 m² to 164,092 m² (16.41 ha, 40.55 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 Ballyharran Lower 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.

• 8 Feb 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a dwelling house and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230115

• 6 Apr 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE & DOMESTIC

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170414

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
• Special Protection Area: Wexford Harbour and Slobs SPA 004076
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slaney River Valley 000781

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyharran Lower.

Architectural heritage

• Ballyharran House, farm house, 1842–1863 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1863, on an L-shaped plan with two-bay two-storey recessed end bay wing (north); four-bay two-storey lean-to parallel range along rear (east) elevation. Occupied, 1911. Hipped and pitched slate roof (south); pitched slate roof (north) abutting lean-to slate roof (east), pressed or rolled lead ridges, cement rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves having monolithic modillions with cast-iron rainwater goods to rear (east) elevation on limewashed red brick header bond eaves. Cement rendered walls bellcast over rendered plinth; limewashed roughcast surface finish to rear (east) elevation bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and rendered "bas-relief" surround having chamfered reveals framing glazed timber panelled double doors. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (east) elevation with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing three-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): entrance hall retaining encaustic tiled floor, carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors centred on cut-veined grey marble chimneypiece, and decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling; drawing room (north) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, cut-veined marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; dining room (south) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surround to window opening framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, cut-white marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on "Acanthus"-detailed ceiling rose; 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 quatrefoil-detailed wrought iron railings to perimeter centred on quatrefoil-detailed wrought iron double gates.

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 Ballyharran Lower, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyharran Lower · Baile Tharcháin Íochtarach

Area

477,190 m² (47.72 ha, 117.92 acres)

Civil parish

Tikillin, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere East

Electoral division

Kilpatrick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

762 people lived in 260 households in the Kilpatrick electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyharran Upper, Killowen, Newcastle Upper, Tikillin

Placenames

Ballyharran Lower 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.