Ballygarrett
Townland in the civil parish of Kilnahue, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Ghearóid
- Area
- 115.5 ha
- 285 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 8,133 m² (0.81 ha, 2.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygarrett, from 538 m² to 496,868 m² (49.69 ha, 122.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Ballygarrett 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
28 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of works to date and permission to complete
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250927
9 Jul 2025N/a
Permission for retention of works to date and permission to complete
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250850
23 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of (1) alterations to existing dwelling (2) existing do
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210603
19 Nov 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A STEEL FRAMED AGRICULTURAL SHED CONSISTING OF A SLATTED TAN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181586
25 Oct 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF WORKS TO DATE AND PERMISSION TO COMPLETE THE ERECTIO
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171385
5 Jul 2017Refused
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF WORKS TO DATE AND PERMISSION TO COMPLETE THE
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170869
2 Jun 2017N/a
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF WORKS TO DATE AND PERMISSION TO COMPLETE THE
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170685
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballygarrett.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygarrett.
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 Ballygarrett.
- 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 Ballygarrett with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballygarrett · Baile Ghearóid
- Area
- 1,154,927 m² (115.49 ha, 285.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnahue, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Kilnahue, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilnahue electoral division: 488 people in 159 households; 91% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballingarry Lower, Ballygullen, Ballyowen, Ballyrahan, Glandoran Upper, Kilmichael Lower, Kilmichael Upper, Kilnahue
- Placenames
- Ballygarrett 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.