Ballydane
Ballydane is a townland in the civil parish of Ardamine, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Eideáin.
- Area
- 57.8 ha
- 143 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 5,669 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential (R)
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydane, from 675 m² to 160,274 m² (16.03 ha, 39.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (R) (Existing residential)
Courtown and Riverchapel Local Area Plan 2015-2021 (as extended), Wexford · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community and Education (CE) (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Courtown and Riverchapel Local Area Plan 2015-2021 (as extended), Wexford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Ballydane in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Ballydane.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballydane.
Architectural heritage
- Ounavarra House, house, 1842–1852 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, extant 1852, on an asymmetrical plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor; single-bay full-height gabled projecting end bay (west) with single-bay full-height gabled advanced end bay (east). Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1972. Resold, 1979. Hipped slate roof with pitched (gabled) slate roofs (end bays), part perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles, red brick Common bond chimney stacks on red brick Common bond bases having chevron- or saw tooth-detailed corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch) with terracotta ridge tiles, decorative timber bargeboards on timber purlins, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters. Part creeper-covered roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed door opening (porch) with cut-granite step threshold, and moulded surround framing timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window openings ("cheeks") with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing wrought iron grillers over timber casement windows having lattice glazing bars. Square-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement (half-landing) with cut-granite sill, bull nose-detailed timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing wrought iron grille over timber casement windows having lattice glazing bars. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (end bays) with cut-granite sills, bull nose-detailed timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing wrought iron grilles over timber casement windows having lattice glazing bars. Set in landscaped grounds with granite ashlar piers to perimeter having ogee-detailed cornices below shallow pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed cast-iron double gates.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballydane, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3270 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballydane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballydane · Baile Eideáin
- Area
- 578,306 m² (57.83 ha, 142.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardamine, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Electoral division
- Ardamine, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 4,410 people lived in 1,599 households in the Ardamine electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 59% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinageeloge, Ballinatray Lower, Ballinatray Upper, Doughal, Tomsilla Lower
- Placenames
- Ballydane 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.