Ballinglin
Ballinglin is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcavan, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile an Ghleanna.
- Area
- 73.5 ha
- 182 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 2,964 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinglin, from 86 m² to 193,109 m² (19.31 ha, 47.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballinglin 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 Aug 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH DOMESTIC STORES AS CON
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20181179
17 Jun 2016Granted (conditional)
ERECT AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING COMPRISING OF HAY / STRAW STORAGE AND LOOSE BED L
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160683
8 Jun 2016N/a
ERECT AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING COMPRISING OF HAY / STRAW STORAGE AND LOOSE BED L
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160636
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 Ballinglin.
Recorded monuments
- WX007-008 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) only on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a wide col or low E-W ridge (L c. 1km E-W) between Ask Hill and Tara Hill, the summits of which are c. 900m and 1km to the W and E respectively. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 32m) defined by a slight scarp, with slight remains of a fosse (Wth of top 10m) SE–NW. It is visible as a vegetation mark of a wide fosse feature on aerial photographs (MM (53) 31-33). 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: 15 March 2012 Amended: 8 May, 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinglin.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballinglin, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Ballinglin.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballinglin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinglin · Baile an Ghleanna
- Area
- 734,801 m² (73.48 ha, 181.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcavan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Courtown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,012 people lived in 1,030 households in the Courtown electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinacarrig, Ballinglinbeg, Ballywilliam, Kilcavan Upper, Kilmurry
- Placenames
- Ballinglin 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.