Ballygarra

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygarra, from 1,396 m² to 53,006 m² (5.3 ha, 13.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Ballygarra 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.

• 15 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a domestic garage and associated works

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260040

• 15 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251155

• 12 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of the erection of a single storey extension to the

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211578

• 30 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the development of a holiday park comprising 49 No. static mobile

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210655

• 14 Nov 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE (CHANGE OF HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191519

• 4 Feb 2019Granted (unconditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE (CHANGE OF HO

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20140048

• 23 May 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING: (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A STEEL PORTAL FRAME CATTLE SH

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180694

• 13 Jun 2017Granted (unconditional)

  ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ASSOCIATED SIT

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20120384

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 Ballygarra.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballygarra.

Architectural heritage

• Ballygarra House, farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on an L-shaped plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting glazed porch; single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height return (north). "Improved", pre-1903, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Renovated, 2005-6. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat thatch roof with exposed hazel lattice stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, red brick Running bond off-central dwarf chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops; pitched slate roof (north) with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gable with red brick Running bond chimney stack to apex having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Stained lime rendered battered walls; rendered surface finish (north). Square-headed off-central door opening into farmhouse. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with rendered chamfered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat 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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ballygarra, 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 the townland of Ballygarra.

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 Ballygarra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballygarra · Baile Gearrtha

Area

234,791 m² (23.48 ha, 58.02 acres)

Civil parish

Carn, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Lady's Island, the unit of the census

Census 2022

625 people lived in 249 households in the Lady's Island electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballysheen, Ballytra, Castlepaliser, Clougheast, Cousinstown, Crosslands

Placenames

Ballygarra 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.