Ballybrazil

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybrazil, from 711 m² to 298,135 m² (29.81 ha, 73.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballybrazil 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.

• 10 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the following a) Alerations to proposed carpark layout

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250145

• 13 Nov 2019Granted (unconditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20150469

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballybrazil.

Recorded monuments

• WX039-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of the SW-facing slope of Slievecoiltia Hill. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 38m NE-SW) that is overgrown at the N and slopes down steeply to the SW. It is defined by a low bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4m) NW-NE and a low scarp (H 0.8m at SW) elsewhere. There is an external fosse (Wth of top 8m; max. ext. D 1.2m) NW-NE which becomes a berm (Wth c. 13m) NE-S-NW defined by a scarp (H 0.3m at SW) SE-SW and a curved field bank SW-NW. There are traces of a further outer earthwork in a scarp S-SW (H 2m) 10m distant from the outer scarp, which may be a natural scarp down to a stream running off to the W. There is no identifiable entrance. 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: 24 January, 2013

• WX039-009001 Church
  Description

  Situated at the bottom of a S-facing slope of Slievecoiltia Hill and at the headwaters of a small N-S stream. This church is probably of an early origin. The grass covered foundations of a nave (ext. dims. 14m E-W; 7m N-S) and chancel (ext. dims. 5m E-W; 4m N-S) church are very slight (Wth 0.9-1m; max. H 0.7m) and are within the NW angle of a subrectangular graveyard (int. dims. 47m E-W; 13m N-S at E to 27m N-S at W) defined by a stone clad earthen bank. The graveyard is within a large enclosure (int. dims. 94m E-W; 86m N-S) defined by slight traces of a fosse (Wth c. 13m) NNW-E and a scarp SE-SW. The site of Crone Well (WX039-010----) is just outside the enclosure at SW, and this well was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, according to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 192), while St. Bridget’s well (WX039-012----) is c. 580m to the SE. 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: 24 January, 2013

• WX039-009002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated at the bottom of a S-facing slope of Slievecoiltia Hill and at the headwaters of a small N-S stream. The foundations of a church (WX039-009001-) are within the NW angle of a subrectangular graveyard (int. dims. 47m E-W; 13m N-S at E to 27m N-S at W) defined by a stone clad earthen bank. The graveyard is within a large enclosure (WX039-009003-) and the site of Crone Well (WX039-010----) is just outside the enclosure at SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 January, 2013

• WX039-009003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Situated at the bottom of a S-facing slope of Slievecoiltia Hill and at the headwaters of a small N-S stream. The church (WX039-009001-) and graveyard (WX039-009003-) are within a large enclosure (int. dims. 94m E-W; 86m N-S) defined by slight traces of a fosse (Wth c. 13m) NNW-E and a scarp SE-SW. The site of Crone Well (WX039-010----) is just outside the enclosure at SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 January, 2013

• WX039-010 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated at the bottom of a S-facing slope of Slievecoiltia Hill and at the headwaters of a small N-S stream. It is just outside the ecclesiastical enclosure (WX039-009003-) at SW. A well is marked on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as Crone Well in gothic lettering on both. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 192) this well was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. However, it may be named after St. Brocán of Clauin Iomarchair. an unidentified place in Ossary. Brocán is mentioned in a Life of St. Abán as the uncle of a thief who stole Abán's pigs (Ó Riain 2011, 127). This is a natural spring in an overgrown area and is one of the sources of the N-S stream. There is no record of veneration, or any evidence of it. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 January, 2013 Amended: 4 February, 2014

• WX039-012 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Located in a slight E-W valley at the S foothills of Slievecoiltia Hill, and just on the N side of a small NE-SW stream. A well is marked on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as St. Bridget’s Well in gothic lettering on both. This is a slight sunken area (dims c. 5m x c. 4m), but there is no record of veneration, or any evidence of it. There is a church (WX039-009001-) c. 580m to the NW and the parish church of Ballybrazil (WX039-023001-) is c. 430m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 January, 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybrazil.

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).

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 Ballybrazil.

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.

No address of the register names Ballybrazil with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballybrazil · Baile Uí Bhreasail

Area

692,262 m² (69.23 ha, 171.06 acres)

Civil parish

Ballybrazil, and its townlands

Barony

Shelburne

Electoral division

Whitechurch, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Whitechurch electoral division: 678 people in 227 households; 92% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfarnoge, Ballykeerogemore, Ballykelly, Ballynamona, Ballysop, Coolerin, Coolerin North, Milltown

Placenames

Ballybrazil 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.