Ballyrooaun
Ballyrooaun is a townland in the civil parish of Ballynaslaney, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile an Ruáin.
- Area
- 33.5 ha
- 83 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 335,405 m² (33.54 ha, 82.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Ballyrooaun, from 335,405 m² (33.54 ha, 82.88 acres) to 335,405 m² (33.54 ha, 82.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyrooaun 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
25 May 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260660
25 May 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260662
16 Sept 2025Refused
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251158
16 Sept 2025Refused
Permission to erect a dwelling house, services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251159
27 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of the following; 1) retention of stables,
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241184
15 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of dwelling house and domestic garage as built with ass
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210554
21 Sept 2020Refused
Permission for retention of dwelling house and domestic garage with associated s
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201090
4 Mar 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION PERMISSION OF MINOR ALTERATION TO WINDOWS/DOORS AND ENTRANCE PORCH
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190261
21 Dec 2018N/a
RETENTION PERMISSION OF MINOR ALTERATIONS TO WINDOWS/ DOORS AND ENTRANCE PORCH D
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181828
7 Sept 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING UTILITY ROOM AND ERECTION OF EXTENSION TO
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181224
20 Oct 2016Granted (conditional)
1) PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED AND ALL
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20161164
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 Ballyrooaun.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyrooaun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyrooaun.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyrooaun, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyrooaun.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballyrooaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyrooaun · Baile an Ruáin
- Area
- 335,408 m² (33.54 ha, 82.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballynaslaney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Edermine, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,597 people lived in 537 households in the Edermine electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Ballyrooaun 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.