Ballyaddragh
Ballyaddragh is a townland in the civil parish of Kilrane, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Eadrach.
- Area
- 34.4 ha
- 85 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 495 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential & Infill
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyaddragh, from 4 m² to 155,323 m² (15.53 ha, 38.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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
- R2Existing Residential & Infill (Existing residential)
Wexford County Development Plan 2022-2028, Wexford · 23 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space and Amenity (Open space, park)
Wexford County Development Plan 2022-2028, Wexford · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential Phase 2 (New/proposed residential)
Wexford County Development Plan 2022-2028, Wexford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N6Public Utilities (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
Wexford County Development Plan 2022-2028, Wexford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential Phase 1 (New/proposed residential)
Wexford County Development Plan 2022-2028, Wexford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community & Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Wexford County Development Plan 2022-2028, Wexford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Aug 2026N/a
Permission for development consisting of: the proposed construction
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20261105
12 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extension to the
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251647
18 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions to an
Permission, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231244
21 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house,
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221401
27 May 2022Refused
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house,
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220708
12 Jul 2021Refused
Permission for the erection of a 36m high lattice support structure carrying ant
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211103
1 Jul 2021N/a
Permission for development consisting of the erection of a 36m high lattice supp
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211037
17 May 2021N/a
permission for the retention of alterations to dwelling house and also the reten
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210743
12 Aug 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF MINOR ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING HOUSE; PERMISSION FOR
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191132
24 Jun 2019N/a
RETENTION OF MINOR ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING HOUSE, RETENTION OF A SINGLE STOREY
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190890
22 Mar 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF 2 NO. DETACHED DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSES, ALTERATI
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20180350
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 Ballyaddragh.
Recorded monuments
- WX048-156 Ring-ditch
Description
Situated on a fairly level landscape at the top of clay cliffs (H c. 10m) down to the sea-shore, which is just to the NE. Archaeological monitoring (06E0909) identified at least five ring-ditches, but no details are available (McLoughlin 2009). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 January, 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyaddragh.
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 Ballyaddragh, about 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyaddragh.
- 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 Ballyaddragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyaddragh · Baile Eadrach
- Area
- 344,483 m² (34.45 ha, 85.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilrane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- St. Helen's, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,719 people lived in 1,005 households in the St. Helen's electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyknockan, Boher, Fasagh, Harristown, Riscrann, Waddingsland
- Placenames
- Ballyaddragh 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.