Ballymurtagh
Townland in the civil parish of Clone, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Mhuircheartaigh
- Area
- 78.8 ha
- 195 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 17,332 m² (1.73 ha, 4.28 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymurtagh, from 1,815 m² to 221,710 m² (22.17 ha, 54.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballymurtagh 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
7 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associa
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251270
6 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of (A) extensions
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251267
21 May 2025Refused
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250586
25 Aug 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230991
12 Feb 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for a) Installation of milking parlour and handling and drafting area
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210194
12 Feb 2021Refused
Permission to erect an agricultural shed for use as an Apiary and storage of mac
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210200
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 Ballymurtagh.
Recorded monuments
- WX020-131 Moated site
Description
Located on a gentle W and NW-facing slope. The cropmark of a rectangular area (dims c. 35m NE-SW; c. 32m NW-SE) defined by straight fosses or moats (Wth c. 1-4m) is visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018). It was first reported by Simon Dowling. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 5 March 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymurtagh.
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
- About 1 in 10 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3015 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballymurtagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballymurtagh · Baile Mhuircheartaigh
- Area
- 788,301 m² (78.83 ha, 194.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- Tinnacross, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tinnacross electoral division: 1,037 people in 350 households; 86% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghfin, Ballydawmore, Ballymoty Beg, Ballysimon, Clolourish, Garryphelim
- Placenames
- Ballymurtagh 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.