Ballylarkin
Ballylarkin is a townland in the civil parish of Inch (Gorey Ra), barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Lorcáin.
- Area
- 82.4 ha
- 204 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 2,526 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylarkin, from 61 m² to 178,065 m² (17.81 ha, 44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballylarkin 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 2022Refused
Permission to erect a new extension to the side of the existing serviced
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221031
15 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and dome
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211133
23 Jan 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170038
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 Ballylarkin.
Recorded monuments
- WX003-020 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Marked as an enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, the location is cut by the N-S Dublin to Wexford rail line. Only the western third of this site survives as a D-shaped grass-covered platform (dims. c. 35m N-S; c. 10m E-W) raised c. 0.5m above the surrounding ground surface (C 35m N-S). There is no evidence of a fosse or entrance. 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: 14 February 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballylarkin.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballylarkin, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3298 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballylarkin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballylarkin · Baile Uí Lorcáin
- Area
- 823,896 m² (82.39 ha, 203.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inch (Gorey Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Ballylarkin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 938 people lived in 311 households in the Ballylarkin electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyellin Lower, Bolabradda, Coolgreany, Killybegs, Monature, Scarnagh Lower, Scarnagh Upper
- Placenames
- Ballylarkin 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.