Ballyrane

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyrane, from 58 m² to 159,488 m² (15.95 ha, 39.41 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 Ballyrane 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.

• 3 Aug 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a cluster development of 5 no. dwelling houses, on individual

  Permission, 5 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230905

• 7 Jul 2023N/a

  Permission for a cluster development of 5 no. dwelling houses, on individual

  Permission, 5 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230787

• 13 Jul 2022Refused

  Permission for a cluster development of 5 no. dwelling houses, on individual plo

  Permission, 5 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220948

• 27 Nov 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, ON-SITE TREATMEN

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191570

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 Ballyrane.

Recorded monuments

• WX047-021 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Located on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape. The castle of Ballyrane is depicted as a tower on the Down Survey map of Forth barony, and 64 acres at Ballyrane together with 53 acres at Ballydonskar (Ballydusker?) were owned by John Synnott in 1641 according to the Books of Survey and Distribution (Simington 1953, 303). For the Down Survey map see this webpage accessed on 11 Sep. 2013. http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Forth&c=Wexford Lewis (1837, vol. 2, 149) says that the castle was situated ‘a quarter of a mile (c. 400m)’ S of the parish church of Killinick (WX047-005001-) and was then owned by the Lett family. John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 describes the castle as a tower in excellent preservation and ‘about 60 feet (c. 18m) high’ (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 282). It is described as Ballyrane Castle in ruins on gothic lettering on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, but there are no other descriptions of it. There are no visible remains of a structure at ground level in a farmyard. 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: 14 October, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1726 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1726, on a cruciform plan with single-bay full-height bow on an engaged half-octagonal plan. Reroofed, 1947. Renovated, ----. Pitched slate roof; elongated octagonal slate roof (bow), clay ridge tiles, grouped (north) or single (south) rendered diagonal chimney stacks on stepped cushion courses on rendered bases having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal or tapered pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables, rooflights to rear (east) pitch, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards retaining cast-iron octagonal hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast battered walls; rendered surface finish (east). Square-headed central door opening with timber doorcase framing replacement glazed timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having stepped capping.

• Ballyrane House, house, 1842–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, occupied 1885, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey projecting porch to ground floor on a half-octagonal plan. Vacant, 1911. Sold, 1958. Resold, 1990. Extended, 1992, producing present composition. Sold, 1993. Replacement hipped fibre-cement slate roof with lichen-spotted ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered walls. Central door opening into house. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting timber 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 Ballyrane, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3060 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballyrane · Baile Odhráin

Area

456,498 m² (45.65 ha, 112.8 acres)

Civil parish

Killinick, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Killinick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

927 people lived in 339 households in the Killinick electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybeg, Ballysheen, Fernyhill, Martinstown, Ratholm, Sanctuary

Placenames

Ballyrane 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.