Ballylough

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylough, from 95 m² to 263,445 m² (26.34 ha, 65.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Ballylough 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 May 2026Granted (conditional)

  RED III Application

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260563

• 31 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF UP TO 5MW SOLAR PV FARM DEVELOPMENT WITHIN A

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20161097

• 30 Aug 2023Granted (conditional)

  A 10 Year Planning Permission for a solar farm with a total area of circa 55

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231025

• 5 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a 10 year Planning Permission for a solar farm with a total area

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221309

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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

• WX015-011 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Located on the flood-plain of the NE-SW River Bann with the stream c. 140m to the SE and a smaller NW-SE stream immediately to the N. Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40-45m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Slight traces of circular area defined by fosse (diam. c. 30m) were visible in the 1940s (SMR file). No featire 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: 30 April, 2012

• WX015-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a slight rise in the flood-plain f the NE-SW River Bann with the stream c. 150m to the SE and a small W-E stream c. 20m to the S. A cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) enclosing a small hillock and defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP: BGP 80). No feature is visible at ground level in pasture, but the enclosure can be seen faintly on the OSI series of aerial photographs (1995). 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: 30 April, 2012 Amended: 8 May, 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Ballylough.

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

Name

Ballylough · Baile Ó Lóiche

Area

1,808,080 m² (180.81 ha, 446.79 acres)

Civil parish

Ferns, and its townlands

Barony

Scarawalsh

Electoral division

Ballycarney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballycarney electoral division: 503 people in 157 households; 92% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clone, Crory, Killabeg, Scarawalsh, Tincurry

Placenames

Ballylough 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.