Ballinatray Lower

376 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinatray Lower, from 5 m² to 193,443 m² (19.34 ha, 47.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 43 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (R) (Existing residential)
  Courtown and Riverchapel Local Area Plan 2015-2021 (as extended), Wexford · 337 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Village Centre (VC) (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Courtown and Riverchapel Local Area Plan 2015-2021 (as extended), Wexford · 51 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Leisure and Amenity (LA) (Open space, park)
  Courtown and Riverchapel Local Area Plan 2015-2021 (as extended), Wexford · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Commercial Leisure (CL) (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  Courtown and Riverchapel Local Area Plan 2015-2021 (as extended), Wexford · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Caravan/Mobile Homes Parks (HCMP) (Tourism and related)
  Courtown and Riverchapel Local Area Plan 2015-2021 (as extended), Wexford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space and Amenity (OSA) (Open space, park)
  Courtown and Riverchapel Local Area Plan 2015-2021 (as extended), Wexford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community and Education (CE) (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Courtown and Riverchapel Local Area Plan 2015-2021 (as extended), Wexford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Natural Amenity (NA) (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Courtown and Riverchapel Local Area Plan 2015-2021 (as extended), Wexford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 26 May 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission to subdivide the site of the existing two storey dwelling

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260676

• 19 May 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a detached bungalow with services with connections to the

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260627

• 5 May 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission to change the use of existing studio which was granted planning

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260557

• 16 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of existing studio which is connected to existing

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260043

• 5 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a) attic conversion to habitable use, b) raising of the roof

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251427

• 20 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)

  Planning Permission for a) demolition of an existing garage and store buildings

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251031

• 14 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to demolish existing conservatory to side of dwelling house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250868

• 19 Jun 2025N/a

  Permission for the demolition of existing single storey plant and storage

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250750

• 7 May 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to change the use from retail use to retail with ancillary use as

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250524

• 14 Apr 2025N/a

  Permission to change the use from retail use to retail with ancillary

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250427

• 17 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention for a) the change of use of the existing site to

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250187

• 26 Jul 2024N/a

  Permission for development which will consist of the construction of a two

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240900

• 12 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development at an existing car park located at Harbour Court

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240669

• 31 May 2024N/a

  Permission at an existing car park located at Harbour Court, Ballintray Lower

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240625

• 3 Jan 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission is being sought for the removal of existing uninhabitable

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240003

• 6 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention for changes made to approved extension and

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230640

• 19 Dec 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect an extension to the existing leisure centre consisting of a

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221682

• 27 Sept 2022Granted (conditional)

  Retention planning permission for the construction of front facing window to

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221283

• 15 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)

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

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220804

• 29 Mar 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the placement of a pay-to-use portable waste compactor for

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220403

• 21 Mar 2022Granted (conditional)

  Retention permission for thechange of house position from what was

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220356

• 2 Mar 2022Granted (conditional)

  Planning permission for A) the construction of an extension to the rear of the e

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220262

• 10 Feb 2022N/a

  Permission for the placement of a pay-to-use portable waste compactor

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220164

• 20 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for change of use of existing premises to commercial premises use to

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20212002

• 15 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a single storey extension to rear and side of existing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211975

The 25 most recent of 76 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Courtown Dunes And Glen 000757

Recorded monuments

• WX012-006 Cross - High cross
  Description

  Situated on the outer edge of a wooded shelf overlooking the W-E Owenavorragh Stream, which is c. 70m to the N, and c. 1km from the sea-shore. A stone patio with benches is laid out around it, and paths lead through the wood to it from a carpark to the E. This is a shale Latin cross (H 2.25m; T 0.15m) with one broken arm (Wth 1.03m). There is an incised cross in a circle (diam. 0.46m) at the intersection of the arms on both faces. (deVal 1970, 25; Ranson 1948, 102-03; Harbison 1992, vol. 1, 23) 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. Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 13 April, 2012.

Architectural heritage

• Ballinatray Bridge, bridge, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch road bridge over river, built 1847. Part creeper- or ivy-covered walls centred on creeper- or ivy-covered tapered piers with corbelled stepped stringcourses supporting parapets having rubble stone rounded soldier course coping. Series of three round arches with lichen-spotted voussoirs centred on lichen-spotted keystones. Sited spanning Owenavorragh River with wooded embankments to river.

• Mill (water), 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey double-pile mill, extant 1840, on a square plan originally three-bay two-storey single-pile on a rectangular plan. In use, 1911. Now in ruins. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) roof with fragments of slate finish, part creeper or ivy-covered coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on red brick header bond eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with red brick quoins to corners; mass concrete walls (top floor). Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds. Interior in ruins. Set in overgrown grounds.

• Water pump, 1842–1904 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron "cow tail" waterpump, extant 1904. Repositioned, ----. Now disused. Road fronted with part creeper- or ivy-covered boundary wall to perimeter having mass concrete coping.

• Johnsville, house, 1842–1904 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, extant 1904, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor. Refenestrated, ----. Pitched slate roof centred on gablet with ridge tiles, rendered (north) or red brick Running bond (south) chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, timber bargeboards to gablet with timber finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth with rusticated rendered piers to ends. Segmental-headed central door opening with concealed dressings centred on rendered keystone framing timber panelled door having overlight. Camber-headed window openings to "cheeks" with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over framing fixed-pane timber fittings having margins. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Street fronted with wrought iron railings to perimeter centred on wrought iron gate.

• Verbena, house, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to ends. Square-headed central door opening with moulded rendered surround framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Street fronted with roughcast boundary wall to perimeter having concrete coping centred on looped wrought iron gate.

• House, 1842–1904 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, extant 1904, on a rectangular plan originally with shopfront to left ground floor. Renovated, ----. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Replacement cement rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Square-headed central door opening with conceal dressings framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.

• Tara Hall, ballroom/dance hall/disco, 1910–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Archival Description [Demolished 2014]: Attached single-bay (two-bay deep) single-storey dance hall, built 1914; dated 1914; opened 1915, on a rectangular plan. Closed, 1947. Now disused. Pitched (gable-fronted) bitumen felt roof behind parapet with bitumen felt ridge, and rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined wall to front (east) elevation with rendered stringcourse supporting embossed parapet ("1914") having dentilated corbelled stepped coping; red brick surface finish (remainder). Segmental-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings with reinforced concrete lintels framing timber casement windows having vertical glazing bars. Street fronted.

• Bridge, 1842–1904 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over canal, extant 1904. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with cut-granite stringcourses supporting parapets having lichen-spotted cut-granite coping. Single round or segmental arch with lichen-spotted granite ashlar voussoirs centred on cut-granite keystones. Sited spanning canal with overgrown embankments to canal.

• Lifeboat station, 1910–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay (three-bay deep) single-storey gable-fronted lifeboat house or lifeboat station, built 1911, on a rectangular plan. "Restored", 1992. Replacement pitched (gable-fronted) artificial slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, rooflights, and uPVC rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters. Part repointed snecked limestone walls on red brick header bond chamfered cushion course on red brick Running bond plinth with hammered granite flush quoins to corners. Square-headed opening with concealed dressings framing rolling double doors. Round-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite flush surrounds supporting red brick voussoirs framing replacement fixed-pane uPVC fittings. Set on harbour.

• Maryville, house, 1842–1904 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey double-pile over raised basement house, extant 1904, on a square plan. Hipped double-pile (M-profile) slate roof behind parapet with "Fleur-de-Lys"-crested roll moulded clay ridge tiles extending into clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks on axis with ridge having red brick corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and concealed rainwater goods with cast-iron rainwater goods to side elevations retaining cast-iron downpipes. Red brick Flemish bond wall to front (north) elevation on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on rendered, ruled and lined base with rusticated cut-granite quoins to corners supporting chevron- or saw tooth-detailed parapet having cut-granite coping; rendered, ruled and lined surface finish (remainder) with red brick flush quoins to corners. Camber-headed central open internal porch approached by flight of eleven cut-granite steps between overgrown railings with red brick voussoirs having stepped reveals. Square-headed door opening into house with carved timber chamfered mullions supporting carved timber chamfered transom, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights on panelled risers below overlight. Square-headed window openings (basement) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Camber-headed window openings (ground floor) with cut-granite sills, and red brick voussoirs having stepped reveals framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Camber-headed window openings (remainder) with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds having stepped reveals framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from line of street in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having cut-granite pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron gate.

• Boathouse, 1842–1904 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey gable-fronted lifeboat house or "rocket house", extant 1904, on a rectangular plan. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles terminating in red brick Running bond chimney stack (south) having stepped capping, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Limewashed coursed rubble stone walls with red brick quoins to corners. Horseshoe-shaped opening with red brick surround framing timber boarded double doors. Square-headed window openings to side elevations between flat iron tie bars with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber boarded fittings. Set back from line of street in unkempt grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having chamfered capping.

• Catholic Church of the Star of the Sea, church/chapel, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1881-2; dedicated 1882, on a rectangular plan; six-bay single-storey lean-to side aisle (west). Renovated, 1968-9, with sanctuary reordered. "Restored", 1980-1. Pitched banded slate roof; lean-to banded slate roof (side aisle), perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables on cut-granite beaded "Cavetto" kneelers with Cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on "Bowtell"-detailed red brick consoles retaining cast-iron hoppers and square profile downpipes. Red brick Flemish bond walls on rendered chamfered plinth with red brick Flemish bond stepped buttresses including red brick Flemish bond stepped buttresses to corners having cut-granite "slated" coping. Cusped lancet window openings (east) with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Lancet window openings in bipartite arrangement (side aisle) with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed wrought iron bars over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on lattice glazing bars. Lancet "Trinity Window" (south) with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (north) front, cut-granite block-and-start surround having engaged Composite colonette-detailed reveals with hood moulding on monolithic label stops framing timber boarded double doors. Quatrefoil-detailed "Rose Window" (gable) with cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on lattice glazing bars. Full-height interior open into roof with carpeted central aisle between trefoil-detailed timber pews, replacement stations (1967) between stained glass memorial windows (1949; 1980) with pointed-arch opposing arcade on Composite pillars, carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (south) reordered, 1968-9, with replacement Gothic-style reredos (1980) below stained glass "Trinity Window" (1943), and exposed scissor truss timber roof construction on cut-granite beaded "Cavetto" corbels with wind braced rafters to ceiling on carved timber cornice. Set in relandscaped 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).

Radon

About 1 in 20 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3270 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Ballinatray Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballinatray Lower · Baile na Trá Íochtarach

Area

1,075,948 m² (107.59 ha, 265.87 acres)

Civil parish

Ardamine, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen North

Electoral division

Courtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Courtown electoral division: 3,012 people in 1,030 households; 79% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinatray Upper, Ballydane, Courtown, Seamount, Tomsilla Lower

Placenames

Ballinatray 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.