Ballygullen
Townland in the civil parish of Kilnahue, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Ó gCuilinn
- Area
- 153.7 ha
- 380 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 3,870 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygullen, from 399 m² to 478,934 m² (47.89 ha, 118.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Ballygullen 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
29 Apr 2026N/a
Permission for retention of the following works completed on site- 1) an
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260528
2 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a dwellinghouse with services, new site entrance
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251575
19 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to 1. Construct extensions to the front and rear of existing dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230684
30 May 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a bungalow with services, domestic garage and ancillary
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230610
6 Dec 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING AND SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIAT
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181685
28 Jun 2018Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180879
25 Oct 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF WORKS TO DATE AND PERMISSION TO COMPLETE THE ERECTIO
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171385
23 Oct 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION FOR THE CHANGE OF POSITION OF MILKING PARLOUR AND DAIRY
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171373
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
24 Apr 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170504
19 Dec 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION INDEFINITELY, OF THE FOLLOWING ALTERATIONS AND ASSOCIAT
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20161416
30 Sept 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT NEW MILKING PARLOUR AND DAIRY, COLLECTING YARD, CONCRETE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161075
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 Ballygullen.
Recorded monuments
- WX006-047 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circular enclosure with trees (diam. c. 50m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a hachured feature (ext. diam. c. 50m) on the 1940 ed. It was recorded in 1940 as a circular area (diam. c. 33.5m N-S; c. 31m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 3.5-c. 4.5m; H c. 1-1.5m) with no fosse (OSFM). It is situated on a slight W-facing slope, but is not visible at ground level in 1987. An area of black soil is said locally to be visible when the area is ploughed. 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: 21 November, 2012
- WX006-077 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is situated on a SW-facing slope at the head of a small NE-SW valley. No feature is visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 2 March 2012
- WX006-086 Battlefield
Description
We regret we are unable to supply descriptive details of this record at present.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygullen.
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 Ballygullen.
- 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 Ballygullen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballygullen · Baile Ó gCuilinn
- Area
- 1,537,293 m² (153.73 ha, 379.87 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
- Ballinacoola, Ballygarrett, Ballyowen, Craan Lower, Craan Upper, Kilmichael Upper, Kilmichaelhill, Lyrane
- Placenames
- Ballygullen 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.