Ballaman
Townland in the civil parish of Kilrush, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Ámainn
- Area
- 261.9 ha
- 647 acres
- Land parcels
- 82
- registered freehold, median 5,468 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 28
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaman, from 17 m² to 279,189 m² (27.92 ha, 68.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Ballaman 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 Jun 2026N/a
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage with
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260856
6 Mar 2026Refused
Permission for the development and operation of a construction and Demolition
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260288
9 May 2025Refused
Permission to erect a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250537
31 Jan 2025Granted (unconditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF ANAEROBIC DIGESTION AND ORGANIC FERTILISER PR
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20160469
29 Nov 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for a soil screening and concrete crushing facility
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241482
26 Sept 2024N/a
Permission to alter the existing use of house, known as
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241179
6 Sept 2024Refused
Permission is sought for a change of use from existing single storey
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241087
26 Aug 2024N/a
Permission for a change of use from existing single storey garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241013
22 Feb 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240190
4 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the development of a soil recovery facility
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231447
31 Oct 2023Refused
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231311
27 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a two-storey dwelling with services
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231300
23 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for a development comprising of a proposed extension to an existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231261
30 May 2023Refused
Permission to construct a two-storey dwelling with services, domestic storage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230611
15 Feb 2021Granted (unconditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN ANAEROBIC DIGESTION FACILITY COMPRISING OF
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20151267
31 Jul 2020Granted (conditional)
Permsiion for a single-storey building containing a living room & WC associated
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200866
24 Apr 2020Refused
Permission for the proposed construction of agricultural building and associated
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200468
26 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)
Proposed continuance of use of existing quarry (2.6595 hectacres) for stone extr
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200379
2 Dec 2019Refused
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A DWELLINGHOUSE WITH SERVICES, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191585
27 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION OF AN EXISTING FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF DWELLING, EXISTING
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190901
19 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SERVICES, DOMESTIC GARAGE,
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190848
10 Jun 2019N/a
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SERVICES, DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190789
21 May 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE OPERATION OF A CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION (C & D) WASTE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190685
24 Apr 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE OPERATION OF A CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION (C&D) WASTE RECYCL
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190546
21 Dec 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181809
The 25 most recent of 28 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 Ballaman.
Recorded monuments
- WX010-017 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated at the bottom of a fairly steep W-facing slope with a N-S stream immediately to the W. Marked as large circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 55-60m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Part of the bank (Wth 4m; int. H 1m) is incorporated into a field bank N-E (C 40m) with an external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 6m; D 2m) N-E, but the rest of the perimeter does not survive. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 11 April, 2012
Architectural heritage
- Charlesfort House, country house, 1799–1839 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey over part raised basement country house, extant 1839, on a U-shaped plan with pair of single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height bow-ended returns (north) centred on single-bay full-height return on a half-octagonal plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Burnt, 1977. In ruins, 2004. Reconstructed, 2005. Replacement hipped slate roof on an E-shaped plan behind parapet with half-conical slate roofs (north) centred on half-octagonal slate roof, clay ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and concealed rainwater goods with cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Replacement roughcast walls on ogee-detailed cut-granite cushion course on roughcast base with rusticated rendered piers to corners supporting ogee-detailed cut-granite "Cavetto" cornice below parapet having cut-granite coping. Square-headed central door opening approached by flight of seven cut-granite steps between wrought iron railings, cut-granite doorcase with engaged Doric columns on plinths supporting ogee-detailed cornice on "triglyph" frieze on entablature framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall with carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled reveals or shutters. Set in relandscaped grounds.
- Charlesfort House, farmyard complex, 1842–1904 · Regional interest
Description
Remains of farmyard complex, extant 1904, on a quadrangular plan including: Gateway on a symmetrical plan with lichen-spotted cut-limestone voussoirs centred on cut-limestone keystone. Set in relandscaped grounds shared with Charlesfort House.
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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballaman.
- 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 Ballaman with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballaman · Baile Ámainn
- Area
- 2,618,516 m² (261.85 ha, 647.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilrush, and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- Tombrack, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tombrack electoral division: 840 people in 290 households; 90% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyandrew, Ballyboy, Ballymorgan, Bolacaheer, Curraduff, Curralane, Moneydurtlow, Tombrack
- Placenames
- Ballaman 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.