Ballyboggan Upper
Ballyboggan Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Tikillin, barony of Shelmaliere East, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Bheagáin Uachtarach.
Parcel 427163
- Area
- 1,577 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 325 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
- Ballyboggan Upper
Planning applications on this parcel
26 Apr 2024Refused
PERMISSION FOR (A) DEMOLITION WORKS EXTERNALLY CONSIST OF REMOVING THE CHIMNEY
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190410
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 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.
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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
- 89.3 ha
- 221 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 3,485 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyboggan Upper, from 33 m² to 179,888 m² (17.99 ha, 44.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Ballyboggan Upper 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
2 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)
Planning permission for the proposed erection of a new two storey fully service
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251408
26 Apr 2024Refused
PERMISSION FOR (A) DEMOLITION WORKS EXTERNALLY CONSIST OF REMOVING THE CHIMNEY
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190410
9 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a 3.6m wide x 2.1m high (internal dimensions)
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211922
24 Nov 2021N/a
Permission for the construction of a 3.6m wide x 2.1m wide (Internal Dimensions)
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211830
26 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a single storey, flat roof, garden room, loca
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201423
17 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (PLAN REF. 993767 REFERS)
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190840
8 Feb 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF PART GROUND FLOOR AND PART FIRST FLOOR EXTENSIONS, T
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170122
19 Dec 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION COMPRISING 28 SQ M TO EXISTING DWELLING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161404
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 Ballyboggan Upper.
Recorded monuments
- WX032-049 Enclosure
Description
Located at the crest of a W and SW-facing slope. The faint cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a slngle fosse or ditch feature and with with the cropmark of a lane or field bank flanked by two ditches (L c. 30m) approaching from the SW is visible on aerial photographs (MM (11) 12-13). The enclosure (WX032-050----) is c. 100m to the SSE, and may be connected to this enclosure by the cropmark of a field bank. 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: 31 August, 2012 Amended: 21 February, 2014
- WX032-050 Moated site
Description
Situated on a slight S-facing slope. The faint cropmark of a rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 40m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by wide fosse or moat features (Wth c. 5m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (11) 12-13). The enclosure (WX032-049----) is c. 100m to the NNW and may be connected to this feature by the cropmark of a field bank with two ditches. This site may be a moated site. 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: 31 August, 2012 Amended: 21 February, 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyboggan Upper.
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 Ballyboggan Upper, 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 Ballyboggan Upper.
- 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 Ballyboggan Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyboggan Upper · Baile Uí Bheagáin Uachtarach
- Area
- 892,882 m² (89.29 ha, 220.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tikillin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelmaliere East
- Electoral division
- Artramon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 807 people lived in 263 households in the Artramon electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyboggan Lower, Glasganny, Lacken, Monroe, Mullanagower, Randallsmill
- Placenames
- Ballyboggan Upper 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.