Ballyboy
Townland in the civil parish of Ballycarney, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Bhuaile Bhuí
- Area
- 183 ha
- 452 acres
- Land parcels
- 67
- registered freehold, median 3,127 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 25
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyboy, from 11 m² to 213,649 m² (21.36 ha, 52.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Ballyboy 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
10 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of existing steel framed building in a different
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251447
1 Apr 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250356
3 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect an extension to existing steel framed building
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241492
23 Jan 2024Refused
Permission to erect an extension to existing steel framed building previously
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240054
19 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a steel framed building for the purpose of commercial storag
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220500
12 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of existing extension to the side of my existing
Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220475
27 Jan 2022Refused
Permission for Retention of partial works to an agricultural steel framed shed
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220093
13 Jan 2022N/a
Permission for retention of partial works to an agricultural steel framed shed
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220023
12 Apr 2021Refused
Permission for the construction of a new dwelling, detached ancillary garage, ne
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210535
2 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for 1. Permission for Retention and Completion of the excavation
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20201132
21 Jul 2020Refused
Permission for (a) The proposed erection of a new car showrooms building, (b) th
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200814
6 Jul 2020N/a
1. Permission for Retention and Completionof the excavation works on site, and
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200729
6 Jul 2020N/a
Permission for (a) the proposed erection of a new Car Showrooms building,
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200731
24 Apr 2020N/a
Permission for the proposed creation of a secure compound to the rear of the exi
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200464
24 Apr 2020N/a
Permission for (a) the proposed erection of a new car showrooms building, (b) th
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200465
28 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION OF (A) THE USAGE OF PART OF THE EXISTING BUILDING ON SITE AS CAR SERVI
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190913
4 Mar 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING COTTAGEAND RETENTION OF DOMEST
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190263
26 Nov 2018Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING YARD FOR STORAGE OF CAR
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181614
26 Oct 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181485
3 Apr 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE DWELLING HOUSE TO ACCOMMODATE A DISA
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180413
22 Aug 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A BUILDING CONSISTING OF DRESSING ROOMS AND ANCILLARY AREAS
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171120
31 Jul 2017N/a
PERMISSION TO ERECT A BUILDING CONSISTING OF DRESSING ROOMS AND ANCILLARY AREAS
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171010
13 Feb 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF FIRST FLOOR LIVING SPACE IN DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSL
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170142
30 Jan 2017N/a
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF FIRST FLOOR LIVING SPACE IN DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSL
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170081
25 Apr 2016Granted (conditional)
ERECTION OF EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO OUR EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20160412
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 Ballyboy.
Recorded monuments
- WX010-015 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight SW-facing slope. This is a subcircular grass and fern-ocvered area (dims. 34m NW-SE; 30m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.4m) which is incorporated in field bank NE-S, with traces of an external fosse S-N. The entrance may have been at SW where there is a slight dip in the perimeter. 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: 10 April, 2012
- WX010-016 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a fairly steep E-facing slope, with a N-S stream c. 180m to the E. Marked as a cirular enclosure (diam. c. 40-45m) on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and described locally as having had a large bank and deep fosse, now destroyed. This is a circular, grass-covered area (diam. 24m) defined by a curve in the field bank at N and a slight lip at S. It is also visible s a faint cropmark on Google Earth (14/07/2018). Se the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (2018) 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: 10 April, 2012, 23 July 2021
- WX010-030 Bullaun stone (present location)
Description
This is an oval granite boulder (dims 0.67m x 0.44m; H 0.33m) with a single basin (dims 0.36m x 0.24m; D 0.12m). A hole (dims 4cm x 2cm; D 2cm) has been bored in the outside of the stone but it does not penetrate to the basin. The stone was removed from the graveyard of Boolnadrum (WX010-013002-) and is now in the garden of a house at Ballyboy. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 April, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyboy.
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 Ballyboy.
- 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
- Ballyboy, Ferns5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballyboy · An Bhuaile Bhuí
- Area
- 1,829,937 m² (182.99 ha, 452.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballycarney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- Tombrack, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tombrack electoral division: 840 people in 290 households; 90% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballaman, Ballymorgan, Ballyrankin, Curraduff, Kildalloo, Knockreagh, Raheen, Strahart
- Placenames
- Ballyboy 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.