Ballycross

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycross, from 4,047 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres) to 712,815 m² (71.28 ha, 176.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballycross 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.

• 23 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced new dwelling house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241623

• 20 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for part demolition of extensions to back and sides and the erection

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211625

• 1 Jun 2021Refused

  Permission for part demolition of extensions to back and sides and the erection

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210857

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 Ballycross.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballycross.

Architectural heritage

• Ballycross House, farmyard complex, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, extant 1840, including: Walled garden on a rounded cornered square plan with coursed rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown rubble stone rounded coping; red brick Running bond surface finish to courtyard elevations. Now disused. Set in wood in grounds originally shared with Ballycross House.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballycross, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2920 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballycross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballycross · Baile Croise

Area

1,131,785 m² (113.18 ha, 279.67 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Kilmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,469 people lived in 925 households in the Kilmore electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybought, Ballyharty, Bridgetown South, Castletown, Inish and Ballyteige Slob, Pullingtown, Sheephouse

Placenames

Ballycross 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.