Ballydaniel
Townland in the civil parish of Toome, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Dhónaill
- Area
- 142.2 ha
- 351 acres
- Land parcels
- 52
- registered freehold, median 3,704 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydaniel, from 18 m² to 360,885 m² (36.09 ha, 89.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Ballydaniel 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
3 Mar 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for change of use of part of an existing building (previously
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260259
18 Jan 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house to replace a fire destroyed house
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240035
6 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a storage building and associated site works which will be a
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221314
13 Sept 2019Refused
10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A SOLAR FARM WHICH WILL CONNECT TO THE NATIONAL
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191272
9 Sept 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION OF THE CONVERSION OF FIRST FLOOR ROOF SPACE TO HABITABLE ACCOMMODATION
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191253
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
Recorded monuments
- WX011-018 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a rise on a gentle S-facing slope. The cropmark of circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a fosse feature is visible on the oblique aerial photograph (CUCAP: BOB 6). Ther perimeter is slightly truncated by a N-S field bank at E. No feature is visible at ground level in a root crop. Rath (WX011-017----) is c. 150m to the NNW. 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: 11 April, 2012
- WX011-019 Ring-ditch
Description
Situated on a slight rise on a gentle SW-facing slope. Two concentric cropmark rings (int. diam. c. 10m; ext. diam. c. 30m) are visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: BOB 4; MM (52) 29, 30). The outer ring has an entrance gap on the E side. No feature is visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 12 April, 2012
- WX011-021 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located towards the bottom of a gentle S-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35-40m) defined by a fosse feature is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP: ASW 82). No feature is visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 12 April, 201 Amended: 12 May, 2014
- WX011-041 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight S-facing slope. The cropmark of a bivallate circular enclosure defined by a wider inner and slighter outer fosse features (max. ext. diam. c. 55m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (14) 5–7, 23). There is an entrance gap through the inner fosse feature at SE and the site is overlain by a NE-SW field bank NW of its centre. 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. Date of upload/revision: 12 April, 2012 Amended: 6 May, 2014
- WX011-042 Ring-ditch
Description
Situated in a low-lying landscape with the E-W Brackan River c. 230m to the S. The cropmark of a small enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (14) 16. 23; (16) 36). 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. Date of upload/revision: 12 April, 2012
Architectural heritage
- Water pump, 1907–1921 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cast-iron "cow tail" waterpump, extant 1921. Now disused. Road fronted on a tarmacadam verge.
- Farm house, 1842–1883 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1883, on an L-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting glazed porch to ground floor; two-bay (west) or single-bay (east) two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1911. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on creeper- or ivy-covered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls. Segmental-headed central door opening into farmhouse. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.
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 Ballydaniel.
- 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 Ballydaniel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballydaniel · Baile Dhónaill
- Area
- 1,422,108 m² (142.21 ha, 351.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Toome, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Balloughter, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Balloughter electoral division: 555 people in 187 households; 89% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinclare, Ballybanoge, Ballyclogh, Camolin, Clonhenret, Norrismount, Tullabeg, Whitewell
- Placenames
- Ballydaniel 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.