Ballinra
Ballinra is a townland in the civil parish of Castleellis, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile an Rátha.
Parcel 414137
- Area
- 86,744 m² (8.67 ha, 21.43 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Ballinra
Planning applications on this parcel
30 Apr 2018N/a
RETENTION PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING: 1. DORMER TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SI
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180563
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- 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.
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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
- 113.2 ha
- 280 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 27,085 m² (2.71 ha, 6.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinra, from 524 m² to 135,510 m² (13.55 ha, 33.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Ballinra 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
21 Jan 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250052
26 May 2022Refused
Permission for development which will consist of works within a total site area
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220701
22 Nov 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION FOR DEVELOPMENT AT THIS SITE, THE DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF I. RETENTION
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191555
13 Nov 2018Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE RAISING OF GROUND LEVELS OF APPROXIMATELY 2 ACRES OF LAND
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181557
30 Apr 2018N/a
RETENTION PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING: 1. DORMER TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SI
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180563
25 Jul 2016Granted (conditional)
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160843
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Screen Hills 000708
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinra.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinra.
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 Ballinra, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinra.
- 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 Ballinra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinra · Baile an Rátha
- Area
- 1,132,219 m² (113.22 ha, 279.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleellis, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Castle Ellis, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,284 people lived in 454 households in the Castle Ellis electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinra, Ballinrooaun, Ballyroe (Annesley), Ballyroe (Nunn), Barnariddery, Newfort
- Placenames
- Ballinra 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.