Ballygow

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygow, from 178 m² to 253,708 m² (25.37 ha, 62.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballygow 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.

• 21 Dec 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of a stone filled access road and hard standing area

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221704

• 16 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a) the conversion of the existing disused three storey mill with

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210950

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballygow.

Recorded monuments

• WX045-077 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the crest of a low N-S ridge. The cropmark of a large oval enclosure (dims. c. 75m NW-SE x c. 60m NE-SW) defined by a single narrow feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (9) 1, 2). 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: 22 July 2013

• WX050-001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Located towards the top of an E-facing slope. A well is marked on the 1839 and 1925 Eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as St. Mary’s Well in gothic lettering on both. A slight depression is evident in a pasture field. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 February, 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygow.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 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 Ballygow.

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.

No address of the register names Ballygow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballygow · Baile Gabha

Area

1,179,324 m² (117.93 ha, 291.42 acres)

Civil parish

St. James And Dunbrody, and its townlands

Barony

Shelburne

Electoral division

Rathroe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathroe electoral division: 922 people in 347 households; 87% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Battlestown, Clonlard, Connagh, Dungulph, Fethard, Knockanduff

Placenames

Ballygow 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.