Ballyboro
Townland in the civil parish of Killegney, barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish Béal Átha Bórú
- Area
- 83.7 ha
- 207 acres
- Land parcels
- 75
- registered freehold, median 2,482 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyboro, from 31 m² to 150,260 m² (15.03 ha, 37.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Ballyboro 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
13 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240682
11 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231487
6 Sept 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of a reinforced concrete hurling wall and associated
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231060
18 May 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220653
10 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for a single storey extension to the South Elevation of our existing
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211443
8 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of 1 no. fully serviced dwelling and
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201503
20 May 2020Refused
Permission for the construction for a fully serviced two-storey residential dwel
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200515
31 Jan 2020Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200099
29 Oct 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED TWO STOREY RESIDENTIAL DWELL
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191456
29 Oct 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED SINGLE STOREY RESIDENTIAL
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191457
27 Aug 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO DWELLING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191206
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 Ballyboro.
Recorded monuments
- WX024-041 Moated site
Description
Marked as a small rectangular feature (dims. c. 30m N-S; c. 30m E-W) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in a slight W-E valley with a small W-E stream c. 80m to the S. This is a rectangular grass-covered area (dims. 25m E-W; 22m N-S) defined by a slight fosse or moat (Wth 5.5-9m; D c. 0.2-0.4m) with the slight rise of an inner bank (H 0.1m) on all sides except the W. A leat runs southwards from the SW corner. 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: 25 June, 2012
- WX024-062 Enclosure
Description
Located on a S-facing slope. A D-shaped area (int. dims c. 50m NNW-SSE; c. 40m ENE-WSW) with straight sides at S and W is defined by what is probably a broad bank (Wth c. 10-15m) and a narrow outer drain (ext. dims c. 70m NNW-SSE; c. 70m ENE-WSW). It is visible as a soil mark on iMaps (2022) and it is also visible on Google Earth (09/08/2022). It is visible as a cropmark on DigitalGlobe (2011-13). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from iMAPs (2022) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 June 2023
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyboro.
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 Ballyboro.
- 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 Ballyboro with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyboro · Béal Átha Bórú
- Area
- 837,083 m² (83.71 ha, 206.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killegney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Castleboro, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castleboro electoral division: 964 people in 337 households; 91% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castleboro Demesne, Coolaught, Forrestalstown, Killegney, Tominearly
- Placenames
- Ballyboro 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.