Ballyboggan Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Tikillin, barony of Shelmaliere East, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Uí Bheagáin Íochtarach
- Area
- 159.8 ha
- 395 acres
- Land parcels
- 194
- registered freehold, median 1,555 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 55
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
194 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyboggan Lower, from 6 m² to 312,529 m² (31.25 ha, 77.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Ballyboggan Lower 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
4 Feb 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260132
2 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)
Planning permission for the proposed erection of a new two storey fully service
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251408
2 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a 30m high lattice telecommunications
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251098
27 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a development
Permission, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20251068
23 Jun 2025N/a
Permission for a proposed upgrade and extension to the existing 'astro turf' all
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250767
2 Apr 2025Granted (unconditional)
Permission for the provision of a new dwelling house and domestic garage,
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20201019
2 Apr 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to: 1) Renovate and extend the existing derelict house on site
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240352
28 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)
Outline planning permission for a fully serviced detached dwelling
Outline permission · Wexford County Council, 20240348
15 Dec 2023N/a
Permission to: 1 (Renovate and extend the existing derelict house on site
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231515
1 Aug 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced two storey dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230881
21 Jul 2023N/a
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced two storey dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230842
17 May 2023Refused
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced two storey dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230533
20 Apr 2023N/a
Proposed erection of a fully serviced single storey dwelling house together
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230420
13 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for indefinite retention of the extensions to the side and rear of
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230239
9 Mar 2022N/a
Permission for a new two storey dwelling house, site entrance, septic tank,
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220292
9 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for erection of an extension to existing dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211736
27 May 2021Refused
A) Permission for the demolition of the remaining derelict buildings on site & f
Permission, 20 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210830
10 May 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for new two storey dwelling house, site entrance, septic tank and per
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210716
4 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced single storey dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210304
22 Feb 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of screen nets behind the goals to the existing socc
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210237
19 Feb 2021Refused
Permission for new two storey dwelling house, site entrance, septic tank and per
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210233
17 Feb 2021N/a
Permission for new two storey dwelling house, site entrance, septic tank and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210220
16 Feb 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced detached dwelling house. All wit
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210212
29 Jan 2021N/a
Permission for new two storey dwelling house, site entrance,
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210105
3 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of existing roof lights to front elevation of house
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20201288
The 25 most recent of 55 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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
- Special Protection Area: Wexford Harbour and Slobs SPA 004076
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Wexford Slobs And Harbour 000712
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyboggan Lower.
Architectural heritage
- Castlebridge Garda Síochána Station, garda station/constabulary barracks, 1930–1935 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey Garda Síochána station, built 1932, on a U-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting end bays. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan with pitched (gabled) slate roofs (end bays), clay ridge tiles, rendered red brick Running bond chimney stacks having shallow stringcourses capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on chevron- or saw tooth-detailed red brick cornice retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered base. Square-headed central window openings in tripartite arrangement with concrete sills, and rendered flush surrounds framing four-over-four timber sash windows having two-over-two sidelights centred on six-over-six timber sash window having two-over-two sidelights. Square-headed window openings (end bays) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site with rendered boundary wall to perimeter having concrete coping.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3053 (ZIP).
- 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
The townland
- Name
- Ballyboggan Lower · Baile Uí Bheagáin Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,598,253 m² (159.83 ha, 394.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tikillin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelmaliere East
- Electoral division
- Artramon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Artramon electoral division: 807 people in 263 households; 82% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Artramon, Ballyboggan Upper, Ballyregan or Fairyhill, Ballytramon, Castlebridge, Crory Lower, Glasganny, Randallsmill
- Placenames
- Ballyboggan Lower 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.