Ballylemin
Ballylemin is a townland in the civil parish of Skreen, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Léimín.
Parcel 423731
- Area
- 33,335 m² (3.33 ha, 8.24 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,006 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
- Ballylemin
Planning applications on this parcel
6 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSROOM ATTACHING TO EXISTI
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190782
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Screen Hills 000708
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.
- WX033-008001 Church
Description
Located at the W edge of a slight N-S ridge. This is the site of the parish church of Screen – Irish: scrín meaning a shrine - within a raised rectangular graveyard (dims. 39m E-W; 27m N-S). According to a Visitation by Thomas Ram, the Protestant bishop of Ferns, in 1615 this church was impropriate to Henry Wallop and the name of the priest, if any, is not recorded. Nor is the condition of the church building recorded (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 268). John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933a, vol. 1, 354) records the former existence of a church, no trace of which is visible at ground level. An oval stone (dims. 0.52m x 0.35m; H 0.35m) with an oval socket, which is almost buried in the NE part of the graveyard, is regarded as a font but may be a cross-base. There is a natural spring c. 100m to the W, where patterns were held on 27th September until c. 1820. (ibid.). A geophysical survey (16R185) conducted by Earthsound Archaeological Geophysics in the field to the W (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 60m NW-SE) tentatively identified two possible ditches as well as a number of pits. Archaeological testing (16E0616) uncovered a number of archaeological features consistently across the area consisting mostly of pits, none of which were excavated but the pottery and other material recovered, including a late fifteenth century Geraldine groat suggests a high medieval date. (McLoughlin 2017) See the attached section from the Down Survey (1656-8) parish map (N at top) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725) 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: 4 September, 2012 Amended: 7 January 2019
- WX033-008002 Graveyard
Description
Located at the W edge of a slight N-S ridge. The site of the parish church of Screen (WX033-008001-) is within a raised rectangular graveyard (dims. 39m E-W; 27m N-S). The possible font (WX033-008003-) is in the NE part of the graveyard. A geophysical survey (16R185) conducted by Earthsound Archaeological Geophysics in the field to the W (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 60m NW-SE) tentatively identified two possible ditches as well as a number of pits. Archaeological testing (16E0616) uncovered a number of archaeological features consistently across the area consisting mostly of pits, none of which were excavated but the pottery and other material recovered, including a late fifteenth century Geraldine groat suggests a high medieval date. (McLoughlin 2017) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 September, 2012 Amended: 3 February 2022
- WX033-008003 Font
Description
Located at the W edge of a slight N-S ridge. The site of the parish church of Screen (WX033-008001-) is within a raised rectangular graveyard (WX032-008002-). An oval stone (dims. 0.52m x 0.35m; H 0.35m) with an oval socket, which is almost buried in the graveyard, is regarded as a font but may be a cross-base. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 September, 2012
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
- 27.9 ha
- 69 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 18,642 m² (1.86 ha, 4.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylemin, from 1,271 m² to 225,852 m² (22.59 ha, 55.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballylemin 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
6 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSROOM ATTACHING TO EXISTI
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190782
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Screen Hills SAC 000708
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Screen Hills 000708
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballylemin.
Architectural heritage
- Iona House, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1910–1925 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey presbytery with half-dormer attic, designed 1911; extant 1922, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay full-height projecting breakfront; three-bay full-height rear (north) elevation centred on single-bay full-height centred on single-bay full-height breakfront. Sold, 2003. Hipped gabled slate roof on a cruciform plan including gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic centred on hipped gabled slate roof, trefoil-perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles, paired red brick Running bond central chimney stacks having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, perforated timber bargeboards to gablets with timber finials to apexes, quatrefoil-detailed timber bargeboards to hipped gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron square profile downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered strips to corners (breakfront); tuck pointed coursed rubble stone walls to rear (north) elevation on rendered plinth with red brick quoins to corners. Paired camber-headed (ground floor) or camber-headed (half-dormer attic) window openings to front (south) elevation centred on paired camber-headed window openings (breakfront) with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Paired camber-headed window openings to side elevations with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Paired camber-headed central window openings to rear (north) elevation with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Camber-headed window opening (half-landing) with cut-granite sill, carved timber cruciform mullion, and red brick block-and-start surround framing fixed-pane timber fitting. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered panelled piers to perimeter having "Cavetto"-detailed ogee domed capping supporting 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballylemin, 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 Ballylemin.
- 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 Ballylemin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballylemin · Baile Léimín
- Area
- 279,247 m² (27.92 ha, 69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Skreen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Ardcolm, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 982 people lived in 368 households in the Ardcolm electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinrooaun, Ballyheige, Ballymore, Glebe, Glenbough
- Placenames
- Ballylemin 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.