Ballynahown

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynahown, from 415 m² to 215,860 m² (21.59 ha, 53.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Ballynahown 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.

• 18 Nov 2021N/a

  Permission for the development of an integrated constructed wetland for secondar

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211790

• 4 Nov 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191484

• 5 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190443

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 Ballynahown.

Recorded monuments

• WX021-030 Mound
  Description

  Marked as a hachured feature with an adjacent quarry only on the 1924 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is located on a broad, low-lying ridge. This is a grass-covered earthen mound with some trees. It has a flat top (diam. of base 12m; diam. of top 7m; H 2.5m), but no visible ditch or other features. 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: 15 June, 2012

• WX021-042 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the crest of the shallow valley of a slight W- E stream. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (WX021-042_1, 2) from 2004. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 June, 2012

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1705 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey part double-pile over part raised basement farmhouse, built 1702; extant 1777, on an L-shaped plan originally three-bay two-storey double-pile. Burnt, 1798. Vacant, 1837. Truncated, pre-1903, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1939. Renovated, ----. Pitched part double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered red brick Running bond chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, rooflights to rear (west) pitch, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on rendered base with rusticated rendered quoins to ends; part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast surface finish to rear (west) elevation. "Venetian Door" approached by flight of six cut-granite steps, cut-granite doorcase with engaged columns on padstones supporting ball finial-topped "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" cornice on blind frieze on broken entablature, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight with fixed-pane sidelights. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement aluminium casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast diagonal piers to perimeter having ball finial-topped stepped capping supporting flat 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 20 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 Ballynahown.

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

Name

Ballynahown · Baile na hAbhann

Area

1,310,163 m² (131.02 ha, 323.75 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnamanagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen North

Electoral division

Wells, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Wells electoral division: 887 people in 295 households; 83% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvack, Ballyhubbock, Ballyvadden, Dughlone, Garrybran, Knockadilly, Raheennaskeagh Lower, Tomgarrow, Wells

Placenames

Ballynahown 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.