Ballyrahan
Townland in the civil parish of Kilnahue, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile an Ráithín
- Area
- 82.3 ha
- 203 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 3,072 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyrahan, from 8 m² to 195,418 m² (19.54 ha, 48.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Ballyrahan 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
19 Jun 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260790
24 Mar 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a single storey dwelling with services, domestic storage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260358
21 Nov 2025Refused
Planning permission for construction of dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater t
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251527
6 Aug 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a dwelling, domestic garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240939
20 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)
Retention of extension to rear of dwelling house, store/carport, garden shed and
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220993
19 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a two-storey dwelling with services, domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220986
18 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a single storey dwelling with services and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211612
18 Mar 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORK
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160267
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
Recorded monuments
- WX006-059001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) at the SW edge of a small wood (dims c. 100m NE-SW; c. 50m NW-SE) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a short E-W ridge at the NW base of Creagh Hill. No feature is visible at ground level but the cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature with an entrance gap at NE is visible on aerial photographs (MM (53) 13-17) located c. 30m to the NE and this is probably the monument. Rath (WX006-059002-) is immediately to the N and rath (WX006-085----) is c. 90m to the NW. 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: 1 March 2012 Amended: 8 May, 2014
- WX006-059002 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a short E-W ridge at the NW base of Creagh Hill. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (53) 13-17). Enclosure (WX006-059001-) is immediately to the S, and enclosure (WX006-085----) is c. 80m to the WNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 1 March, 2012
- WX006-085 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a low E-W spur with slight E-W valleys to the N and S and the N-S stream of the Bann River c. 700m to the W. The cropmark of a circular area (dim. c. 30m E-W) is partially visible on aerial photographs (MM (53) 13-17) on the S side of a WNW-ESE field bank. Enclosures (WX006-059001-; WX006-059002-) are c. 80-100m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 March, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyrahan.
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 5 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_3189 (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 Ballyrahan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyrahan · Baile an Ráithín
- Area
- 823,147 m² (82.31 ha, 203.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnahue, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Gorey Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gorey Rural electoral division: 8,365 people in 2,811 households; 62% of households own their home; 67% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballingarry Lower, Ballygarrett, Creagh Lower, Creagh Upper, Kilnahue
- Placenames
- Ballyrahan 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.