Ballymorgan

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymorgan, from 1,771 m² to 594,388 m² (59.44 ha, 146.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Ballymorgan 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.

• 25 Aug 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage attached

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230994

• 23 Sept 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL OF AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SEWAGE TREATMENT

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191301

• 22 Aug 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A BUILDING CONSISTING OF DRESSING ROOMS AND ANCILLARY AREAS

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171120

• 31 Jul 2017N/a

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A BUILDING CONSISTING OF DRESSING ROOMS AND ANCILLARY AREAS

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171010

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballymorgan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymorgan.

Architectural heritage

• Ballymorgan House, farm house, 1842–1871 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1871, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor; single-bay (two-bay deep) full-height central return (north). Occupied, 1911. Reroofed, 1982. Replacement pitched fibre-cement slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched fibre-cement slate roof (north); pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls on rendered plinth with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Central door opening into farmhouse with glazed timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows centred on two-over-two timber sash window (ground floor). Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set in landscaped grounds with cut-granite monolithic piers to perimeter supporting flat iron double gates.

• Ballymorgan House, chimney, 1902–1911 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding chimney, extant 1911, on a square plan. Now disused. Red brick Common bond walls on coursed rubble stone base with red brick header bond stringcourse below corbelled stepped capping. Set in grounds shared with Ballymorgan House.

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 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 Ballymorgan.

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

Name

Ballymorgan · Baile Mhurchú

Area

717,595 m² (71.76 ha, 177.32 acres)

Civil parish

Ballycarney, and its townlands

Barony

Scarawalsh

Electoral division

Tombrack, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tombrack electoral division: 840 people in 290 households; 90% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaman, Ballyboy, Kildalloo, Tombrack

Placenames

Ballymorgan 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.