# Ballyharrahan, Co. Waterford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ringagonagh, barony of Decies Within Drum, Co. Waterford; in Irish Baile Uí Shearúcháin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,257,425 m² (125.74 ha, 310.72 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,048 m² (0.5 ha, 1.25 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ringagonagh, https://everytownland.com/waterford/parish/ringagonagh.md - Barony: Decies Within Drum - Electoral division: Ringville, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,548 people lived in 507 households in the Ringville electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Waterford, https://everytownland.com/waterford.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/49589 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 220148 - Centre: latitude 52.055189, longitude -7.648243 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyharrahan, from 382 m² to 391,131 m² (39.11 ha, 96.65 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4937885: 391,131 m² (39.11 ha, 96.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4937885.md - Parcel 1582828: 247,443 m² (24.74 ha, 61.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1582828.md - Parcel 1547782: 235,692 m² (23.57 ha, 58.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1547782.md - Parcel 1542976: 175,860 m² (17.59 ha, 43.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1542976.md - Parcel 1552020: 87,499 m² (8.75 ha, 21.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1552020.md - Parcel 1573863: 65,631 m² (6.56 ha, 16.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1573863.md - Parcel 1582597: 44,558 m² (4.46 ha, 11.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1582597.md - Parcel 1545817: 7,817 m² (0.78 ha, 1.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1545817.md - Parcel 4948777: 6,191 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4948777.md - Parcel 1585387: 5,116 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1585387.md - Parcel 1585854: 4,981 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1585854.md - Parcel 2382803: 4,520 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2382803.md - Parcel 5572915: 4,357 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5572915.md - Parcel 1586726: 4,127 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1586726.md - Parcel 4443602: 3,117 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4443602.md - Parcel 1562653: 2,276 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1562653.md - Parcel 1569806: 2,188 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1569806.md - Parcel 1559152: 2,166 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1559152.md - Parcel 1571262: 1,998 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1571262.md - Parcel 1544395: 382 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1544395.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyharrahan in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 16 Jul 2025, Waterford City and County Council 2560486: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for (1) an extension to the front of the existing house, (2) the rendering of the front elevation of the house with a plastered finish along with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WaterfordCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560486/0 - 5 Dec 2023, Waterford City and County Council 23333: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Section 254 Licence for 1. Erection of new over ground fibre optic cables on existing timber poles. 2. Erection of new poles and associated fibre cables. MRL 2023WD0896. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WaterfordCCC/AppFileRefDetails/23333/0 - 4 Nov 2020, Waterford City and County Council 20812: Refused. Outline permission, 1 home. OUTLINE PERMISSION for a storey and a half (dormer type) dwelling including all ancillary development (new entrance and septic tank system) on our lands. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WaterfordCCC/AppFileRefDetails/20812/0 - 5 Jul 2018, Waterford City and County Council 18457: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of single-storey dwelling house, new entrance driveway, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WaterfordCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18457/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Dungarvan Harbour SPA, site code 004032, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004032 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dungarvan Harbour, site code 000663 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WA036-003: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWA036-003----. Located in pasture towards the bottom of a N-facing slope. It is described as Tobar na mBráthar - the Brothers' Well - on the 1840 and 1926 eds of the OS 6-inch map. This is a small drystone well (diam. 1.8m), which was venerated (OS Name Books) but is now almost completely back-filled. Traces of a channel (L 2.2m) run W from the well. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 6th October, 2011 Compiled by: Michael Moore 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyharrahan. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballyharrahan, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyharrahan. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/waterford/ballyharrahan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/waterford/ballyharrahan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/waterford/ballyharrahan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyharrahan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford: https://everytownland.com/waterford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Barranaleaha: https://everytownland.com/waterford/barranaleaha.md - Barranalira: https://everytownland.com/waterford/barranalira.md - Killongford: https://everytownland.com/waterford/killongford.md - Readoty: https://everytownland.com/waterford/readoty.md - Shanbally: https://everytownland.com/waterford/shanbally-221451.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/waterford/ballyharrahan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/waterford/ballyharrahan