Ballyprecas
Townland in the civil parish of St. Marys (Newtownbarry By), barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish Buaile Phrácáis
- Area
- 381.6 ha
- 943 acres
- Land parcels
- 214
- registered freehold, median 4,094 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 47
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
214 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyprecas, from 16 m² to 288,219 m² (28.82 ha, 71.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 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 Ballyprecas 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
2 Sept 2026N/a
Permission for retention and completion of five dwelling houses commenced under
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20210770
17 Apr 2026N/a
CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING RESIDENTIAL DWELLING TO SHORT TERM LETTING RESIDENTIAL USE AT EXISTING DWELLING
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660108
17 Apr 2026Refused
Permission for the change of use from existing residential dwelling to short
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260470
16 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a serviced detached dwelling together with all associated
Permission consequent, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251669
13 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct extensions, renovate and make alterations
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251294
23 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission consequent on the grant of outling permission (O.P.P Ref No. 20212048
Permission consequent, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251203
23 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for alteration to previously approved Planning Reg. no. 20210770.
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250912
9 May 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage with all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250533
17 Apr 2025N/a
Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission (O.P.P. reg. ref.
Permission consequent, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250453
23 Jan 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct (i) Milking parlour building incorporating dairy
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250077
28 Nov 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of bedroom extension to side of existing dwelling
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241476
11 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)
Permisssion to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage with
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20240652
23 May 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for existing extension to rear of existing domestic garage/shed
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240589
14 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for: 1) retention of domestic garage and 2) permission for retention
Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231509
28 Nov 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the opening of a new access to the land and the erection of a
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231418
18 Sept 2023N/a
Permission for the opening of a new access to the land and the erection of a
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231112
12 Sept 2023Refused
Permission for Retention of an extension to the side of dwellinghouse and
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231091
22 Aug 2023N/a
Permission for retention of the following: 1) sheds for the purpose of housing
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230969
11 Aug 2023N/a
Permission for retention of the following, 1) sheds for the purpose of housing
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230934
8 Aug 2023N/a
Permission for the opening of a new access to land and the erection of a new
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230914
11 Jul 2023N/a
Permission for the opening of an access to lands and the erection of a field
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230797
10 Nov 2022Refused
Permission to install an agricultural entrance to serve land
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221499
8 Nov 2022N/a
Permission to install an agricultural entrance to serve land
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221479
8 Nov 2022Refused
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221478
22 Aug 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a new parking area & entrance with associated site works
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221116
The 25 most recent of 47 applications.
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bunclody Slate Quarries 000750
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyprecas.
Architectural heritage
- Water pump, 1842–1904 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cast-iron "cow tail" waterpump, extant 1904. Now disused. Set on stone flagged plinth with lichen-covered cut-granite trough.
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 high, 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_2815 (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 Ballyprecas with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyprecas · Buaile Phrácáis
- Area
- 3,815,872 m² (381.59 ha, 942.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Marys (Newtownbarry By), and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- Newtownbarry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Newtownbarry electoral division: 2,440 people in 919 households; 61% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyphilip, Barnahask (Co. Carlow), Clonmullen (Co. Carlow), Clonyburn, Coorduff, Glaslacken, Newtownbarry, Ryland Lower, Ryland Upper
- Placenames
- Ballyprecas 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.