Ballybaun
Townland in the civil parish of Templeludigan, barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Baile Bán
- Area
- 185.1 ha
- 457 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 4,053 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybaun, from 54 m² to 430,881 m² (43.09 ha, 106.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Ballybaun 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
5 Jun 2026N/a
Permission for the renovation of existing farmhouse, to include part demolition
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260729
5 Jun 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the renovation of existing stone cottage, to include internal and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260730
19 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a slatted animal house with ancillary
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251506
15 May 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of works which comprise of A) Retention of domestic gar
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200509
9 Sept 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLINGHOUSE AND DOMESTIC
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191252
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 Ballybaun.
Recorded monuments
- WX018-013 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle SE-facing slope of the foothills of the Blackstairs Mountains with a NW-SE stream c. 140m to the SW. No feature is 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: 22 May, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybaun.
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 Ballybaun.
- 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 Ballybaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybaun · An Baile Bán
- Area
- 1,851,068 m² (185.11 ha, 457.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeludigan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Templeludigan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Templeludigan electoral division: 494 people in 156 households; 93% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygibbon, Bantry Commons, Bantry Commons, Corrageen, Grange Upper, Tomanine
- Placenames
- Ballybaun 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.