Ballingale
Townland in the civil parish of Ballycarney, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile an Ghéill
- Area
- 145.7 ha
- 360 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 6,406 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballingale, from 169 m² to 543,520 m² (54.35 ha, 134.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Ballingale 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
6 Dec 2022Refused
Permission for retention of existing detached granny flat (separate dwelling
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221615
18 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for alterations to previously granted planning permissi
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201371
7 May 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for development consisting of (a) demolition of exisitng chimney and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200487
9 Oct 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISION FOR RETENTION OF EXISTING DETACHED GRANNY FLAT, (SEPERATE DWELLING UNI
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171321
7 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/ STORE AND ASSOCIAT
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170277
23 Feb 2017N/a
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND ASSOCIATE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170211
28 Sept 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR A CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANN
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161064
13 Sept 2016N/a
A CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER 20160121 ALONG WITH
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161019
12 Feb 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160121
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slaney River Valley 000781
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballingale.
Architectural heritage
- Wood View, house, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey double-pile over part raised basement dower house, built 1820, on a square plan; three-bay full-height rear (east) elevation. Vacant, 1901. Leased, 1911. For sale, 1997. Refenestrated, 1998. For sale, 2007. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof behind parapet with lichen-covered terracotta ridge tiles, rendered coping to gables with rendered, ruled and lined chimney stacks to apexes having cut-granite stepped capping supporting terracotta octagonal pots, and concealed rainwater goods. Creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to corners supporting parapet having cut-granite coping. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of nine cut-granite steps between cast-iron railings, timber doorcase with monolithic pilasters supporting shallow cornice on "Acanthus"-detailed consoles, and concealed dressings having concave reveals framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings originally in bipartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing four-over-four timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (east) elevation with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and picture railing below moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on moulded plasterwork ceiling rose; square-headed opening into staircase hall with carved timber Classical-style surround; double-height staircase hall (east) retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase on a dog leg plan with timber "match stick" balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in volute, carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; dining room (north) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surround to window opening framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, cut-black marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling on decorative plasterwork frieze; drawing room (south) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surround to window opening framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, Baroque-style chimneypiece, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling on decorative plasterwork frieze; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. 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 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 Ballingale.
- 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 Ballingale with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballingale · Baile an Ghéill
- Area
- 1,456,984 m² (145.7 ha, 360.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballycarney, 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
- Clobemon, Corah, Kildalloo, Knockreagh, Mountfin Lower or Ballinturner, Tombrack, Tombrick
- Placenames
- Ballingale 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.