Ballinruane
Townland in the civil parish of Tintern, barony of Shelburne, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile an Ruáin
- Area
- 191.3 ha
- 473 acres
- Land parcels
- 48
- registered freehold, median 4,877 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinruane, from 86 m² to 268,541 m² (26.85 ha, 66.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Ballinruane 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
18 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the relocation of site boundaries previously granted permission u
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201368
18 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201367
4 Aug 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a new shed containing a cubicle house, slatted ta
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200885
3 Feb 2020Refused
ERECTION OF A NEW SHED CONTAINING A CUBICLE HOUSE, SLATTED TANK AND FEED
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200111
29 Mar 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION OF 2 NO. DOMESTIC GARAGES/STORES ANCILLARY TO THE EXISTING HOUSE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190398
30 Jan 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A LIVING UNIT ANCILLARY TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUS
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190103
13 Jun 2018Granted (conditional)
FULL PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE UPGRADING OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM TO A TRE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180799
26 Apr 2016Granted (conditional)
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, THE REMOVAL OF AN OLD SH
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20160415
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 Ballinruane.
Recorded monuments
- WX045-006 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as St. Martin's Well in gothic lettering on both. It is situated on a slight W-facing slope with a N-S stream c. 70m to the W and an E-W road c. 20m to the N. This is a rectangular stone-lined well with a low concrete wall built on top (ext. dims 1.7m N-S; 1.55m N-S; D 1.2m). It is still visited, although partly overgrown with furze. There is no record of a pattern and no evidence of veneration, although it is known locally as St. Martin’s Well. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 July, 2013
- WX045-007 Ringfort - rath
Description
The following 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. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Marked only on 1841 OS 6-inch map. Dished circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by low earthen bank (Wth 6-8m; H 0.3m). No visible fosse or entrance. Possibly a denuded ringfort. Pasture
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinruane.
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 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 Ballinruane.
- 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
- Ballinruane, Ballycullane6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballinruane · Baile an Ruáin
- Area
- 1,913,146 m² (191.31 ha, 472.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tintern, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelburne
- Electoral division
- Tintern, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tintern electoral division: 1,744 people in 636 households; 80% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycullane, Boley, Kinnagh, Saintleonards, Taylorstown, Yoletown
- Placenames
- Ballinruane 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.