Ballygowny

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygowny, from 205 m² to 198,258 m² (19.83 ha, 48.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Ballygowny 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.

• 5 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a 10-year planning permission for development which will consist

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220900

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 Ballygowny.

Recorded monuments

• WX040-108 Concentric enclosure
  Description

  Located at the crest of the E-facing slope of a N-S ridge. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 40m) defined by a fosse is separated by a berm (Wth c. 15-20m) from an outer fosse. This creates a large enclosed area (diam. c. 80m), and It is only visible on iMAPs (2022). An entrances is not detected in the inner enclosure but there may be one (Wth c. 8m) in the outer at ESE. The enclosure was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from iMAPs (2022) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 June 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Ballygowny.

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 Ballygowny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballygowny · Baile Gabhna

Area

651,334 m² (65.13 ha, 160.95 acres)

Civil parish

Tintern, and its townlands

Barony

Shelburne

Electoral division

Killesk, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killesk electoral division: 763 people in 291 households; 86% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baylestown, Burkestown, Coolroe, Shelbaggan

Placenames

Ballygowny 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.