Ballyadam
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmuckridge, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Adaim
- Area
- 173.7 ha
- 429 acres
- Land parcels
- 75
- registered freehold, median 3,213 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 26
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyadam, from 27 m² to 286,069 m² (28.61 ha, 70.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Ballyadam 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
3 Feb 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of 1) partially completed garage, 2) Change
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260123
5 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house, domestic garage/store and to
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251428
22 Jul 2025Refused
(1) Permission to demolish existing shed and
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250906
10 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house, to erect a domestic garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241253
28 Sept 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of works to date and permission to complete the
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20231170
21 Apr 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced detached dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230426
21 Mar 2023N/a
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced detached dwelling house with an
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230280
5 Sept 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221181
31 Aug 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of increase in ridge height of roof and slight changes
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221159
25 Jul 2022N/a
Permission for retention of increase in ridge height of roof and slight changes
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221009
6 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of position of dwelling house in a different position
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211906
6 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for development of a new two story dwelling house, garage and
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211268
20 May 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a fully serviced dwelling house with domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210765
28 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house and to carry out all associated
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210638
26 Apr 2021N/a
Permission for fully serviced dwelling house and domestic garage and associated
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210611
31 Jul 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to remove existing mobile home, dog run and all ancillary associated
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200868
24 Jun 2020N/a
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associa
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200678
20 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION OF EXISTING STEEL FRAMED AND CLAD DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191711
10 Jul 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE (A) PROPOSED STORY AND A HALF SINGLE DWELLING AND GARAGE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190981
9 May 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED A PROPOSED STOREY AND A HALF SINGLE DWELLING
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190622
25 May 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180707
12 Apr 2018N/a
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180467
3 Apr 2018N/a
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180408
21 Oct 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF EXISTING UNDERGROUND SOIL WATER/ EFFLUENT STORAGE TA
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20161171
10 May 2016Granted (unconditional)
ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND CARRY OUT ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20110805
The 25 most recent of 26 applications.
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 Ballyadam.
Recorded monuments
- WX021-029 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Marked as circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and located in a low-lying landscape with a small S-N stream immedately to the W. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. 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 June, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyadam.
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 Ballyadam.
- 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
- Ballyadam, Kilmuckridge9 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballyadam · Baile Adaim
- Area
- 1,736,990 m² (173.7 ha, 429.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmuckridge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Electoral division
- Killincooly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killincooly electoral division: 664 people in 243 households; 73% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinlow, Ballyduff, Ballymacsimon, Creemore, Kilmuckridge, Newtown
- Placenames
- Ballyadam 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.