Ballyfrory
Ballyfrory is a townland in the civil parish of Bannow, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Froire.
- Area
- 105.6 ha
- 261 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 9,242 m² (0.92 ha, 2.28 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfrory, from 798 m² to 170,148 m² (17.01 ha, 42.04 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyfrory 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
4 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250123
30 Jan 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the removal of the existing viewing stand structure
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240077
22 Dec 2023N/a
Permission for the removal of the existing viewing stand structure and for the c
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231579
7 Oct 2021Refused
Permission for retention of changes to floor plans and elevations of dwelling as
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211558
24 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for alterations to proposed entrance from that previously approved un
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210421
27 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, garage and all a
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201252
17 Jun 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to aprtly demolish an existing dwelling and for the erection of a sel
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200647
15 May 2020N/a
Permission to partly demolish an existing dwelling and for the erection of a new
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200511
23 Sept 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR 1) CONVERSION OF TWO EXISTING STONE OUT-BUILDINGS TO SEPARATE LI
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161051
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 Ballyfrory.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyfrory.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyfrory.
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 Ballyfrory, about 1 in 10 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyfrory.
- 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 Ballyfrory with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyfrory · Baile Froire
- Area
- 1,056,393 m² (105.64 ha, 261.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Bannow, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bargy
- Electoral division
- Bannow, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,310 people lived in 480 households in the Bannow electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Busherstown, Coolhull, Coolishal, Craigue Little, Fannystown, Graigue, Johnstown
- Placenames
- Ballyfrory 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.