Ballybregagh
Townland in the civil parish of Castleellis, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Bhuaile Bhréagach
- Area
- 99.3 ha
- 245 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 16,310 m² (1.63 ha, 4.03 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybregagh, from 387 m² to 230,540 m² (23.05 ha, 56.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Ballybregagh 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
7 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260419
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 Ballybregagh.
Recorded monuments
- WX027-048 Water mill - unclassified
Description
A watermill is marked on the Down Survey barony map (1654-5) of Ballaghkeen at Ballybregagh in Castle Ellis parihs. It is on the NW-SE Aughanall Stream, which is the boundary with Meelinagh parish. A corn mill is marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, but it is not certain if it is at the location of the original mill. See the attached section from the Down Survey barony map (N at top right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 July, 2012 Amended: 28 April, 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybregagh.
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 Ballybregagh.
- 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 Ballybregagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybregagh · An Bhuaile Bhréagach
- Area
- 992,720 m² (99.27 ha, 245.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleellis, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Castle Talbot, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castle Talbot electoral division: 987 people in 355 households; 81% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballytarsna, Courtclogh Lower, Courtclogh Upper, Garrymore, Garryvadden, Kyle Little
- Placenames
- Ballybregagh 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.