Ballina Lower

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballina Lower, from 16 m² to 64,987 m² (6.5 ha, 16.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Ballina Lower 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.

• 14 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a single storey dwelling, a detached domestic

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250182

• 22 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house and to carry out all associated

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230287

• 26 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention of alterations to our dwlling as a change that perm

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211190

• 12 Feb 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house, a domestic garage/store and to

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210199

• 16 Oct 2020Refused

  Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house, a domestic garage/store and to

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20201203

• 7 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a detached shed. All with associated and ancillar

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201156

• 10 Jul 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of existing extension (sun room) and alterations to

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200770

• 22 May 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store and associate

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200527

• 22 May 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, CARPORT, NEW SITE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180686

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 Ballina Lower.

Recorded monuments

• WX033-009001 Cross
  Description

  Marked only on the 1925 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic script as 'Stone Crosses'. Two plain Latin crosses and the shaft of a third are situated on a rise in a low-lying landscape and on the E side of the N-S R742 road. They are probably 18th century in date. The most northerly cross is granite (H 0.34m; Wth 0.34m; T 0.16m) and has a shaft 0.2m wide. (Ranson 1948, 98-9) 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. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Two plain Latin crosses in granite and shaft of a third standing by roadside. Probably eighteenth century in date.

• WX033-009002 Cross
  Description

  Marked only on the 1925 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic script as 'Stone Crosses'. Two plain Latin crosses and the shaft of a third are situated on a rise in a low-lying landscape and on the E side of the N-S R742 road. They are probably 18th century in date. The central cross is granite (H 0.5m; Wth 0.43m; T 0.22m) and has a shaft 0.21m wide. (Ranson 1948, 98-9) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 September, 2012

• WX033-009003 Cross
  Description

  Marked only on the 1925 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic script as 'Stone Crosses'. Two plain Latin crosses and the shaft of a third are situated on a rise in a low-lying landscape and on the E side of the N-S R742 road. They are probably 18th century in date. The most southerly is a granite shaft (H 0.26m; dims 0.24m x 0.28m). (Ranson 1948, 98-9) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 September, 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballina Lower.

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 Ballina Lower, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3195 (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 Ballina Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballina Lower · Béal an Átha Íochtarach

Area

390,510 m² (39.05 ha, 96.5 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyvalloo, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen South

Electoral division

Castle Ellis, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,284 people lived in 454 households in the Castle Ellis electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballina Upper, Ballynaclash, Ballyvalloo Lower, Inch

Placenames

Ballina Lower 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.