Ballina Upper
Ballina Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmallock, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Béal an Átha Uachtarach.
Parcel 428513
- Area
- 3,393 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 115 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
- Ballina Upper
Planning applications on this parcel
4 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the disconnection of a shared foul disposal system and for the co
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231449
4 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for 1. Modifications and th econstruction of an extension to
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231450
28 Mar 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190394
19 Mar 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190342
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, 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.
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
- 86.6 ha
- 214 acres
- Land parcels
- 62
- registered freehold, median 2,303 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballina Upper, from 24 m² to 193,121 m² (19.31 ha, 47.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Ballina 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
28 Jul 2026Refused
Permission for the retention of the following a) self contained separate
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20261004
3 Jul 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260872
21 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the development of a sandpit at this site of approx. 22 hectares
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240307
8 Mar 2024N/a
Permission for the development of a sandpit at this site of approx. 22 hectares
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240262
4 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the disconnection of a shared foul disposal system and for the co
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231449
4 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for 1. Modifications and th econstruction of an extension to
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231450
2 Apr 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for a 74sqm single storey "granny flat" extension and upgrading of ei
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200406
26 Mar 2020N/a
Permission for a 74 sq.m. single storey granny flat extension and upgrading of e
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200383
5 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION PERMISSION FOR A 37SQM SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191611
28 Mar 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190394
19 Mar 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190342
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 Ballina Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballina Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballina 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 Ballina 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 Ballina 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 Ballina Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballina Upper · Béal an Átha Uachtarach
- Area
- 866,388 m² (86.64 ha, 214.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmallock, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Kilmallock, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,550 people lived in 511 households in the Kilmallock electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballina Lower, Ballylucas, Ballynabrigadane, Garryntinodagh, Killisk
- Placenames
- Ballina 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.