Ballylane East
Townland in the civil parish of Oldross, barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Leán Thoir
- Area
- 129.5 ha
- 320 acres
- Land parcels
- 58
- registered freehold, median 4,452 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylane East, from 161 m² to 185,203 m² (18.52 ha, 45.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Ballylane East 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
11 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for minor alterations as built to the front
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241109
3 Sept 2021Refused
Permission to construct 2 no. seperate agricultural sheds. Shed no. 1 will be fo
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211410
8 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a one and a half storey dwelling house with n
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210891
11 Jan 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180021
6 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR AN EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING SHED, INCORPORATING SLA
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170266
1 Feb 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION FOR THE FOLLOWING: SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160075
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 Ballylane East.
Recorded monuments
- WX034-021 Ecclesiastical site
Description
Marked 'Abbey (site of)' with the faint outline of a small building (dims. c. 10m E-W; c. 7m N-S) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in the bottom of a small N-S valley with the headwaters of a small stream just to the E. There are no visible remains of any structure at ground level but there is local knowledge of walls encountered in drainage works c. 1950. The castle site (WX034-022----) is c. 25m to the ENE. Archaeological testing (04E1676) c. 50m to the SW at the closest point failed to produce archaeological material (Noonan 2004; xxcavations.ie 2004:1815). 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: 13 September, 2012 Amended: 30 November 2020
- WX034-022 Castle - unclassified
Description
Marked as the faint outline of a small building (dims. c. 10m E-W; c. 7m N-S) described as 'site of Castle' on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Edward Sutton owned a thousand acres in Ballilane, but there is no record of a castle (Simington 1953, 206). There are no visible remains of a structure at ground level but there is local knowledge of stony ground encountered in drainage works c. 1950. The ecclesiastical site (WX034-021----) is c. 25m to the WSW. 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: 13 September, 2012
- WX034-069 Burnt mound
Description
Located towards the bottom of a S-facing slope with a small NW-SE stream c. 30m to the E. This is an oval area of burnt and cracked stones and black earth (dims. 13m x 7m) visible when the area is ploughed. It can be seen on Google Earth images (2009). 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: 13 September, 2012
- WX034-073 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located towards the top of a NE-facing slope. The cropmark of an oval enclosure (dims. c. 30m NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE) defined by a single fosse featue NE-S-W is visible on aerial photographs (MM (58) 12-14). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 September, 2012 Amended: 9 May, 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballylane East.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2522 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballylane East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballylane East · Baile Leán Thoir
- Area
- 1,294,515 m² (129.45 ha, 319.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Oldross, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Oldcourt, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Oldcourt electoral division: 741 people in 243 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Arnestown, Ballylane West, Creakan Upper, Kilclammon, Mylerspark
- Placenames
- Ballylane East 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.