Ballingarry Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Kilnahue, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile an Gharraí Uachtarach
- Area
- 128 ha
- 316 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 43,575 m² (4.36 ha, 10.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballingarry Upper, from 179 m² to 474,813 m² (47.48 ha, 117.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Ballingarry Upper 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
4 Jul 2018Refused
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASS
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180914
20 Jun 2018N/a
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASS
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180841
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
Recorded monuments
- WX006-048 Field system
Description
Marked as a large embanked D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 130m N-S; c. 90m E-W) truncated by a N-S field bank at W on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a W-facing slope with the N-S River Bann c. 250m to the W. Nine small rectangular enclosures (dims. up to 37m x 35m) defined by low grass-covered banks or scarps cover an area of c. 6 acres and is what was represented by the map-makers. 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: 1 March, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballingarry Upper.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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_3189 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballingarry Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballingarry Upper · Baile an Gharraí Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,279,968 m² (128 ha, 316.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnahue, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Gorey Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gorey Rural electoral division: 8,365 people in 2,811 households; 62% of households own their home; 67% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballingarry Lower, Ballingarry Wood, Bolacreen, Kilmichael Lower
- Placenames
- Ballingarry Upper 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.