# Ballylough, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ferns, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Ó Lóiche. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,808,080 m² (180.81 ha, 446.79 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,467 m² (2.15 ha, 5.3 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ferns, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/ferns.md - Barony: Scarawalsh - Electoral division: Ballycarney, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/52150 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 240363 - Centre: latitude 52.565426, longitude -6.52938 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylough, from 95 m² to 263,445 m² (26.34 ha, 65.1 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 408925: 263,445 m² (26.34 ha, 65.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/408925.md - Parcel 426284: 238,762 m² (23.88 ha, 59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/426284.md - Parcel 5838069: 140,915 m² (14.09 ha, 34.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5838069.md - Parcel 5599532: 138,173 m² (13.82 ha, 34.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5599532.md - Parcel 383386: 133,727 m² (13.37 ha, 33.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/383386.md - Parcel 5965135: 129,416 m² (12.94 ha, 31.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5965135.md - Parcel 5792927: 121,505 m² (12.15 ha, 30.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5792927.md - Parcel 426285: 83,930 m² (8.39 ha, 20.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/426285.md - Parcel 427433: 81,764 m² (8.18 ha, 20.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/427433.md - Parcel 383385: 58,040 m² (5.8 ha, 14.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/383385.md - Parcel 383388: 56,042 m² (5.6 ha, 13.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/383388.md - Parcel 400813: 54,578 m² (5.46 ha, 13.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/400813.md - Parcel 402303: 51,001 m² (5.1 ha, 12.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/402303.md - Parcel 426286: 37,755 m² (3.78 ha, 9.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/426286.md - Parcel 383387: 36,922 m² (3.69 ha, 9.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/383387.md - Parcel 5872883: 34,743 m² (3.47 ha, 8.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5872883.md - Parcel 426287: 28,333 m² (2.83 ha, 7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/426287.md - Parcel 5599560: 21,467 m² (2.15 ha, 5.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5599560.md - Parcel 5164498: 9,715 m² (0.97 ha, 2.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5164498.md - Parcel 2430149: 8,526 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2430149.md - Parcel 2674818: 5,998 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2674818.md - Parcel 6085662: 5,194 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6085662.md - Parcel 427254: 4,470 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/427254.md - Parcel 423732: 4,403 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/423732.md - Parcel 428490: 3,827 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/428490.md - Parcel 380503: 3,667 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/380503.md - Parcel 376648: 3,547 m² (0.35 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/376648.md - Parcel 417639: 3,280 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/417639.md - Parcel 6085665: 3,171 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6085665.md - Parcel 5709234: 2,987 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5709234.md - Parcel 402483: 1,969 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/402483.md - Parcel 423484: 1,134 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/423484.md - Parcel 5837983: 325 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5837983.md - Parcel 5890586: 104 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5890586.md - Parcel 5890571: 95 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5890571.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 5 May 2026, Wexford County Council 20260563: Granted (conditional). Permission. RED III Application. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/131116 - 31 Oct 2025, Wexford County Council 20161097: Granted (conditional). Extension of duration. PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF UP TO 5MW SOLAR PV FARM DEVELOPMENT WITHIN A. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/130010 - 30 Aug 2023, Wexford County Council 20231025: Granted (conditional). Permission. A 10 Year Planning Permission for a solar farm with a total area of circa 55. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/125899 - 5 Oct 2022, Wexford County Council 20221309: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for a 10 year Planning Permission for a solar farm with a total area. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/124276 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC, site code 000781, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000781 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WX015-011: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX015-011----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX015-020----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballylough. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballylough.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballylough.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballylough.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballylough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Clone: https://everytownland.com/wexford/clone.md - Crory: https://everytownland.com/wexford/crory.md - Killabeg: https://everytownland.com/wexford/killabeg.md - Scarawalsh: https://everytownland.com/wexford/scarawalsh.md - Tincurry: https://everytownland.com/wexford/tincurry.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballylough - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/ballylough