Ballynastraw

78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynastraw, from 220 m² to 507,001 m² (50.7 ha, 125.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Ballynastraw 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 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a fully serviced dwelling house with detached domestic

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251490

• 14 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250870

• 5 Jun 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a fully serviced Bungalow (incorporating vehicular garage);

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250673

• 3 Jun 2025Refused

  Permission to erect a fully serviced dwelling house with detached domestic

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250662

• 4 Feb 2025N/a

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250116

• 21 Jun 2024Refused

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240717

• 10 Mar 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed construction of a new private entrance to our

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220303

• 7 Feb 2022Refused

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220140

• 28 May 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic garage and associa

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210840

• 7 Nov 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIA

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171438

• 23 Oct 2017N/a

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIA

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171376

• 23 Jan 2017Refused

  ERECT THREE WIND TURBINES, A 60M WIND MONITORING MAST, AN ELECTRICITY SUBSTATION

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20110288

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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slaney River Valley 000781

Recorded monuments

• WX004-012 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Located at the bottom of a S-facing slope and backing onto a NE-SW stream. This is a large D-shaped area (dims c. 80m NE-SW; c. 60m NW-SE) defined by a single fosse feature, which is backing onto a NE-SW road with a NE-SW stream on the other side. It is visible only on Google Earth (14/07/2018), and was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 September 2019

Architectural heritage

• Rainsford Lodge, country house, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over part raised basement country house, built 1834-7, on a cruciform plan originally three-bay two-storey on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return (north) on a bowed plan. Leased, 1901. Sold, 1907. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1948. "Improved", 1951. Sold, 1976. Resold, 1989. Extended, 1991; 1999, producing present composition. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on half-conical slate roof (north), clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting crested terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on slightly overhanging slate flagged eaves retaining wrought iron brackets. Roughcast walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on rendered base. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of eleven cut-granite steps between wrought iron railings with concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled double doors having sidelights on panelled risers below fanlight. Segmental-headed door opening into country house, timber doorcase with pilasters on cut-granite padstones supporting shallow cornice on fluted consoles, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled double doors having sidelights on panelled risers below fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (north) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): bow-ended central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, plasterwork cornice to ceiling, cantilevered staircase with turned timber balusters supporting carved timber banister, and carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds on an elevated site including terrace centred on flight of ten cut-granite steps between wrought iron railings.

• Rainsford Lodge, gates/railings/walls, 1907–1921 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, extant 1921, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of lichen-spotted rusticated granite ashlar octagonal piers having ball finial-topped capping supporting arrow head-detailed wrought iron double gates with rusticated granite ashlar octagonal outer piers having ball finial-topped capping. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Rainsford Lodge.

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 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_2844 (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.

No address of the register names Ballynastraw with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballynastraw · Baile na Sraithe

Area

3,219,777 m² (321.98 ha, 795.62 acres)

Civil parish

Moyacomb, and its townlands

Barony

Scarawalsh

Electoral division

Moyacomb, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moyacomb electoral division: 460 people in 168 households; 86% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeydown, Ballinapark, Ballyshonock, Carrhill, Corragh, Drumderry, Gorteen, Johnstown

Placenames

Ballynastraw 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.