Ballyellin Upper
Ballyellin Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Inch (Gorey Ra), barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Aoláin Uachtarach.
- Area
- 48.6 ha
- 120 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 3,067 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyellin Upper, from 64 m² to 149,286 m² (14.93 ha, 36.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyellin Upper 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
17 May 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220645
2 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a domestic garage and all associated site and ancillary
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201272
21 Dec 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCI
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171703
8 Sept 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO RENOVATE AND EXTEND HOME AND UPGRADE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM TO
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171204
4 Aug 2017N/a
PERMISSION TO RENOVATE AND EXTEND HOME, AND PERMISSION TO UPGRADE EFFLUENT TREAT
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171038
28 Jul 2017N/a
PERMISSION TO RENOVATE AND EXTEND HOME, PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT TO UPGRADE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171001
7 Mar 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH AND REPLACE A SUBSTANTILLY INTACT DWELLING HOUSE WITH A T
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160220
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 Ballyellin Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyellin Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyellin Upper.
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 Ballyellin Upper, 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_3298 (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 Ballyellin Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyellin Upper · Baile Uí Aoláin Uachtarach
- Area
- 486,321 m² (48.63 ha, 120.17 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inch (Gorey Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Ballylarkin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 938 people lived in 311 households in the Ballylarkin electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ashwood Lower, Ballyellin, Ballyellin Lower, Clonough, Coolroe Great, Scarnagh Lower
- Placenames
- Ballyellin Upper 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.