Ballygarrett Little
Ballygarrett Little is a townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Ghearóid Beag.
Parcel 410493
- Area
- 853 m²
- Buildings
- 5 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 282 m².
- 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
- Ballygarrett Little
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
- House, 1700–1839 · Regional interest
Description
Attached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak. Renovated, 1993. Reroofed, 2005. Chicken wire-covered replacement pitched and hipped oat thatch roof with paired exposed hazel stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pot, and paired exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Replacement cement rendered battered walls. Square-headed off-central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings (south) or square-headed window opening originally in tripartite arrangement (north) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Road fronted on a corner site with rendered piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting timber gate.
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 20 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 29.1 ha
- 72 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 2,776 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygarrett Little, from 487 m² to 105,132 m² (10.51 ha, 25.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Ballygarrett Little 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
5 Mar 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260285
23 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling house with connections to existing public service
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251728
29 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251392
6 Jun 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a single storey extension to the side of existing dormer
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250677
2 Sept 2024N/a
Permission for outline permission to erect 4 no. serviced dwelling houses and to
Outline permission · Wexford County Council, 20241057
7 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of extensions and alterations to existing dwelling and
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220139
12 Aug 2020N/a
Permission for the opening of a preschool setting within an existing classroom
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200921
25 Mar 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR A STANDALONE SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION CONSISTING OF 1 NUMBER
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190362
25 Feb 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS CARRIED OUT TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE.
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190233
27 Sept 2018Granted (conditional)
PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A STANDALONE SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION CONSISTING OF 1 NUM
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181328
10 Sept 2018N/a
PERMISSION FOR A STANDALONE SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION CONSISTING OF 1 NUMBER ADDIT
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181236
17 Apr 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, TO ERECT A DOMESTIC GARAGE/ STORE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180487
20 Sept 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO THAT PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF. 20
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20161044
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 Ballygarrett Little.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballygarrett Little.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1700–1839 · Regional interest
Description
Attached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak. Renovated, 1993. Reroofed, 2005. Chicken wire-covered replacement pitched and hipped oat thatch roof with paired exposed hazel stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pot, and paired exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Replacement cement rendered battered walls. Square-headed off-central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings (south) or square-headed window opening originally in tripartite arrangement (north) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Road fronted on a corner site with rendered piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting timber gate.
- The Thatch, house, 1842–1904 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, extant 1904, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak. Refenestrated, 1993. Reroofed, 2005. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped barley thatch roof with exposed hazel lattice stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, rendered off-central chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing replacement timber casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Road fronted with hedge boundary to perimeter centred on timber gate.
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 Ballygarrett Little, about 1 in 20 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballygarrett Little.
- 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 Ballygarrett Little with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballygarrett Little · Baile Ghearóid Beag
- Area
- 291,374 m² (29.14 ha, 72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Electoral division
- Ballygarrett, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 922 people lived in 329 households in the Ballygarrett electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinagam Lower, Ballygarrett, Glascarrig North, Glascarrig South
- Placenames
- Ballygarrett Little 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.