# Ballycross, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Croise. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,131,785 m² (113.18 ha, 279.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,006 m² (0.8 ha, 1.98 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmore, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/kilmore.md - Barony: Bargy - Electoral division: Kilmore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54064 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 240229 - Centre: latitude 52.222634, longitude -6.572487 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 391426: 712,815 m² (71.28 ha, 176.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/391426.md - Parcel 417235: 370,389 m² (37.04 ha, 91.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/417235.md - Parcel 405532: 19,739 m² (1.97 ha, 4.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/405532.md - Parcel 4595762: 11,193 m² (1.12 ha, 2.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4595762.md - Parcel 2652399: 4,818 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2652399.md - Parcel 4595382: 4,150 m² (0.41 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4595382.md - Parcel 4595682: 4,060 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4595682.md - Parcel 4595582: 4,047 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4595582.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 23 Dec 2024, Wexford County Council 20241623: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for the erection of a fully serviced new dwelling house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/128334 - 20 Oct 2021, Wexford County Council 20211625: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. Permission for part demolition of extensions to back and sides and the erection. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/122359 - 1 Jun 2021, Wexford County Council 20210857: Refused. Permission. Permission for part demolition of extensions to back and sides and the erection. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/121447 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballycross. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballycross. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Ballycross House, farmyard complex, 1835–1840, Regional interest, registry number 15704732, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15704732. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2920.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballycross.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballycross.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballycross.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballycross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballybought: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballybought.md - Ballyharty: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballyharty.md - Bridgetown South: https://everytownland.com/wexford/bridgetown-south.md - Castletown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/castletown-240745.md - Inish and Ballyteige Slob: https://everytownland.com/wexford/inish-and-ballyteige-slob.md - Pullingtown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/pullingtown-241896.md - Sheephouse: https://everytownland.com/wexford/sheephouse.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballycross - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/ballycross