Ballyedmond
Ballyedmond is a townland in the civil parish of Kilnamanagh, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Éamainn.
Parcel 424120
- Area
- 588 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 70 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
- Ballyedmond
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
- Dreybrine, house, 1842–1901 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three- or four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with part dormer attic, extant 1901, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Reroofed, 2007. Replacement hipped oat thatch roof with chicken wire-covered paired exposed bamboo stretchers to ridge having exposed steel or wire scallops, red brick Running bond dwarf chimney stack having stringcourse below chicken wire-covered capping, and exposed bamboo stretchers to eaves having exposed steel or wire scallops. Rendered battered walls. Square-headed door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Interior including lobby with "spy hole". Set back from line of bypassed road.
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
- 16.8 ha
- 42 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 1,033 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyedmond, from 17 m² to 54,769 m² (5.48 ha, 13.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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 Ballyedmond 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
15 Jan 2026N/a
Permission for retention of extension to dwellinghouse, alterations carried out
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260035
6 Jun 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to demolish existing timber frame alternative medicine clinic granted
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250681
27 May 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of existing extension to rear of thatched
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250623
10 Apr 2025N/a
Permission to construct a fully serviced single-storey dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250417
10 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ANCILLARY
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190804
11 Sept 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO RECONSTRUCT FIRE DAMAGED DWELLING HOUSE AND CARRY OUT ALTERATIONS
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171219
25 Jul 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170986
21 Apr 2017Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT TWO NO. SERVICED DWELLING HOUSES, SHARED ENTRANCE, WASTE
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20170500
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 Ballyedmond.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyedmond.
Architectural heritage
- Old Mill Cottage, house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak. Refenestrated, ----. Reroofed, ----. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat thatch roof with exposed hazel lattice stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered off-central chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pot, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Roughcast battered walls. Square-headed off-central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC panelled door replacing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from line of bypassed road in landscaped grounds.
- Dreybrine, house, 1842–1901 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three- or four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with part dormer attic, extant 1901, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Reroofed, 2007. Replacement hipped oat thatch roof with chicken wire-covered paired exposed bamboo stretchers to ridge having exposed steel or wire scallops, red brick Running bond dwarf chimney stack having stringcourse below chicken wire-covered capping, and exposed bamboo stretchers to eaves having exposed steel or wire scallops. Rendered battered walls. Square-headed door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Interior including lobby with "spy hole". Set back from line of bypassed road.
- House, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Renovated, ----. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat thatch roof with degraded rope twist above paired exposed bamboo stretchers to ridge having exposed steel or wire scallopsd, red brick Running bond off-central dwarf chimney stack having chicken wire-covered corbelled stepped capping, and exposed bamboo stretchers to eaves having exposed steel or wire scallops. Limewashed rendered battered wall to front (west) elevation; limewashed lime rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed off-central door opening with concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and moulded surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two (north) or three-over-six (south) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of bypassed road in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having "Cavetto"-detauled chamfered capping supporting flat iron gate
- House, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak. Undergoing repair, 1987. Refenestrated, 1992. Reroofed, -----. Replacement hipped oat thatch roof overhanging lean-to roofs to window openings to dormer attic with chicken wire-covered rope twist above paired exposed stretchers to ridge having exposed steel or wire scallops, red brick Running bond off-central dwarf chimney stack having stepped capping, and exposed stretchers to eaves having exposed steel or wire scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls with limewashed rendered battered buttress to front (east) elevation. Square-headed off-central door opening with concealed dressings including timber lintel framing glazed timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Road fronted.
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 Ballyedmond, 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 Ballyedmond.
- 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 Ballyedmond with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyedmond · Baile Éamainn
- Area
- 167,970 m² (16.8 ha, 41.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnamanagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Electoral division
- Wells, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 887 people lived in 295 households in the Wells electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyduffbeg, Ballyedmond, Ballyrea, Ballyshane, Clone East, Coolharbour
- Placenames
- Ballyedmond 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.