Ballylemin

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylemin, from 1,271 m² to 225,852 m² (22.59 ha, 55.81 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 Ballylemin 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.

• 6 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSROOM ATTACHING TO EXISTI

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190782

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Screen Hills SAC 000708
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Screen Hills 000708

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballylemin.

Architectural heritage

• Iona House, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1910–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey presbytery with half-dormer attic, designed 1911; extant 1922, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay full-height projecting breakfront; three-bay full-height rear (north) elevation centred on single-bay full-height centred on single-bay full-height breakfront. Sold, 2003. Hipped gabled slate roof on a cruciform plan including gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic centred on hipped gabled slate roof, trefoil-perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles, paired red brick Running bond central chimney stacks having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, perforated timber bargeboards to gablets with timber finials to apexes, quatrefoil-detailed timber bargeboards to hipped gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron square profile downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered strips to corners (breakfront); tuck pointed coursed rubble stone walls to rear (north) elevation on rendered plinth with red brick quoins to corners. Paired camber-headed (ground floor) or camber-headed (half-dormer attic) window openings to front (south) elevation centred on paired camber-headed window openings (breakfront) with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Paired camber-headed window openings to side elevations with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Paired camber-headed central window openings to rear (north) elevation with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Camber-headed window opening (half-landing) with cut-granite sill, carved timber cruciform mullion, and red brick block-and-start surround framing fixed-pane timber fitting. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered panelled piers to perimeter having "Cavetto"-detailed ogee domed capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

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 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 Ballylemin.

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

Name

Ballylemin · Baile Léimín

Area

279,247 m² (27.92 ha, 69 acres)

Civil parish

Skreen, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen South

Electoral division

Ardcolm, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardcolm electoral division: 982 people in 368 households; 83% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinrooaun, Ballyheige, Ballymore, Glebe, Glenbough

Placenames

Ballylemin 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.