Ballyshannon

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyshannon, from 45 m² to 662,703 m² (66.27 ha, 163.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Ballyshannon 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.

• 8 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to upgrade existing treatment system to EPA guidelines

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250845

• 21 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development at this site which is a protected structure. The

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20240308

• 29 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the following: Construction of a single-storey Medium Voltage

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230316

• 3 Sept 2020Granted (conditional)

  Installation of a 5.8m bulk milk silo next to existing milking parlour

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201013

• 29 Jul 2020N/a

  Permission for installation of a 5.8m tall bulk milk silo next to existing milki

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200847

• 9 Sept 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLINGHOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191251

• 20 Feb 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS TO PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION REFERENCE 2

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180204

• 31 Jul 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLINGHOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171014

• 21 Jun 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING, (A) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170785

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 Ballyshannon.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyshannon.

Architectural heritage

• Carrickbyrne Lodge, country house, 1842–1863 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey country house with half-dormer attic, extant 1863, on a T plan with single-bay full-height gabled advanced end bays; single-bay (six-bay deep) two-storey double-pile return (north). Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1963. Part refenestrated, ----. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped centred on hipped gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic; pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof (north), clay ridge tiles, rendered red brick Running bond chamfered chimney stacks on moulded cushion courses on rendered bases having thumbnail beaded capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on carved timber spandrels with finials now missing, and cast-iron rainwater goods on decorative timber eaves boards on box eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered walls on cut-granite chamfered plinth; exposed coursed rubble stone surface finish (north) with cut- or hammered granite flush quoins to corners. Pseudo three centre-headed central door opening with tessellated "quarry tile" threshold approached by two cut-granite steps, concealed dressings having chamfered reveals framing glazed timber panelled door. Pseudo three centre-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite chamfered flush sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with cut-granite chamfered flush sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (end bays) with cut-granite chamfered flush sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having one-over-one sidelights. Shouldered square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite chamfered flush sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having horizontal glazing bars. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (side elevations) with timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two (ground floor) or one-over-one (first floor) timber sash windows without horns. Square-headed window openings (north) with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing three-over-six or six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers with carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set in landscaped grounds including terrace centred on flights of five lichen-covered cut-granite steps.

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 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyshannon.

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

Name

Ballyshannon · Baile Uí Sheanáin

Area

2,013,638 m² (201.36 ha, 497.58 acres)

Civil parish

Newbawn, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere West

Electoral division

Carrickbyrne, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrickbyrne electoral division: 618 people in 207 households; 86% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyclemock, Misterin, Raheenaclonagh, Rathsillagh, Scullaboge, Tomgarrow

Placenames

Ballyshannon 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.