Ballygoman
Townland in the civil parish of Carrick, barony of Shelmaliere West, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Ghómain
Parcel 6129014
- Area
- 3,944 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it, 265 m² on the ground
- 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
- Ballygoman
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
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for 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
- 125.8 ha
- 311 acres
- Land parcels
- 145
- registered freehold, median 2,110 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 48
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
145 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygoman, from 46 m² to 170,545 m² (17.05 ha, 42.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballygoman 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
30 Jan 2026Granted (unconditional)
Permission for the erection of 14 no. 4 bed dwellings with domestic garages
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20211367
30 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for development which will consist of modifications
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260109
16 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for further amendments to planning permission ref. 20230773 (as
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251663
6 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of domestic garage/shed ancillary to main dwelling
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251261
21 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the building of a livestock house and its associated site works.
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250896
19 Jun 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of 2 no. extensions of 62m2 and 237m2 to existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250754
16 Jan 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for the existing dwelling house as built on site
Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250035
3 Oct 2024Refused
Permission for retention is sought for the existing dwelling house as built
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241222
9 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for amendments to the approved synchronous condenser grid
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241090
26 Aug 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241017
26 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the installation of solar panels over the roof of an existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240743
22 Feb 2024Granted (unconditional)
PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING COMMUNITY CENTRE AND SITE LAYOUT FROM
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20190052
20 Dec 2023Refused
Permission for the construction of 12 no. 4 bedroom two storey dwellings
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231555
19 Dec 2023Refused
Permission for the conversion of disused handball alley
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231550
8 Nov 2023N/a
Permission for the construction of 12 no. 4 bed 2 storey dwellings
Permission, 12 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231347
5 Jul 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to develop a synchronous condenser grid support facility on a site
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230773
26 Apr 2023Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20180163
14 Oct 2022Granted (unconditional)
Permission for erection of a fully serviced dwelling house with associated works
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20170980
15 Sept 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of (a) existing shed building to rear of dwelling (b) a
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221238
3 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for changes to site boundaries and site layout from that previously a
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220745
10 Mar 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for extensions and alterations to existing dwelling and all associate
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220302
30 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the change of use of part existing community centre to creche/aft
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211240
12 Apr 2021Refused
Permission for the construction of 12 no. dwellings and associated site works. P
Permission, 12 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210518
8 Apr 2021N/a
Permission for the construction of 12 No. dwellings and associated site
Permission, 12 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210503
11 Sept 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201047
The 25 most recent of 48 applications.
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 Ballygoman.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballygoman.
Architectural heritage
- Catholic Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Alphonsus Liguori, church/chapel, 1840–1850 · National interest
Description
Detached seven-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1844-8; dedicated 1851, on a rectangular plan comprising seven-bay double-height nave opening into seven-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles. Renovated, 1898-9, with interior "improved". Consecrated, 1899. Renovated, 1946-8, with interior "improved". Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. "Restored", 1998-9. Pitched slate roof with lean-to slate roofs to side aisles, lichen-covered ridge tiles, cut-granite "Cavetto" coping to gables on cut-granite kneelers including cut-granite "Cavetto" coping to gable to entrance (west) front on trefoil-detailed gabled cut-granite kneelers with granite ashlar buttressed gabled double bellcote to apex framing cast-iron bells, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part repointed tuck pointed coursed rubble stone battered walls with hammered granite flush quoins to corners; part repointed tuck pointed coursed rubble stone surface finish (east) with stepped buttresses having cut-granite "slated" coping. Cusped or trefoil-headed lancet window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window opening to chancel (east), cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding over on monolithic label stops framing fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (west) front with three cut-granite steps supporting cast-iron bootscrapers, cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered rebated reveals with hood moulding over on monolithic label stops framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Pointed-arch window opening to gable, cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding over on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Interior including vestibule (west); pointed-arch door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors; full-height interior open into roof "restored", 1998-9, with timber panelled choir gallery on an engaged half-octagonal plan below stained glass "West Window" (1953), encaustic tiled central aisle between timber pews, pointed-arch arcades on cut-granite drum pillars, timber boarded stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, ----, with Gothic-style reredos (1898-9) below stained glass "East Window" (1848), exposed scissor truss timber roof construction on cut-granite beaded corbels with wind braced rafters to stencilled ceiling on timber cornice, timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled wainscoting to side aisles supporting timber dado rail, Gothic-style timber stations between stained glass memorial windows (----), pair of cut-limestone floor monuments (ob. 1867; 1878), and wind braced rafters to stencilled ceiling on timber cornice. Set in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballygoman.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballygoman with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballygoman · Baile Ghómain
- Area
- 1,258,062 m² (125.81 ha, 310.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carrick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelmaliere West
- Electoral division
- Carrick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrick electoral division: 1,831 people in 630 households; 89% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardcandrisk, Ballymichael, Barntown, Cullentra, Davidstown, Knockahone, Mullinree, Shelmaliere Commons, Shelmaliere Commons
- Placenames
- Ballygoman 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.