Ballyshonock

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyshonock, from 2,810 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres) to 369,203 m² (36.92 ha, 91.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Ballyshonock 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.

• 14 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission including a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) is being sought for the co

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211589

• 8 Mar 2021Refused

  Permission including a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) is being sought for the

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210315

• 26 Jan 2021N/a

  Permission including a Natrua Impact Statement (NIS) is being sought for the

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210091

• 13 Jan 2021N/a

  Permission including a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) for the construction of a n

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210025

• 27 Mar 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING, DETACHED SHED, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190383

• 1 Aug 2018Refused

  PLANNING PERMISSION: FOR THE ERECTION OF EXTENSIONS, REFURBISHMENT,

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181042

• 1 Aug 2018Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTIONS OF EXTENSIONS, REFURBISHMENT AND REORGANISATION OF

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181043

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyshonock.

Architectural heritage

• New Bridge, bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Six-arch rubble stone built road bridge over river, c. 1800, with voussoirs and ashlar cut waters.

• New Bridge, bridge, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Six-arch road bridge over river, completed 1829. Part creeper- or ivy-covered walls centred on tuck pointed granite ashlar triangular cutwaters to piers having pyramidal capping with moss-covered rendered rounded coping to parapets centred on cut-granite panelled date stones ("1829"). Series of six round or segmental arches with granite ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning River Slaney with unkempt grass banks to river.

• Bridge House, farm house, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1829, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay (north) or three-bay (south) two-storey side elevations. Sold, 1880. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1945. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, paired granite ashlar central chimney stacks having cut-granite stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered lime rendered walls. Elliptical- or segmental-headed central door opening approached by three cut-granite steps with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having oversailing fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings 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 a slightly elevated site with cut-granite monolithic piers to perimeter supporting looped wrought iron double gates.

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 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_2813 (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 Ballyshonock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballyshonock · Baile Sheonaic

Area

1,158,467 m² (115.85 ha, 286.26 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

Ballynastraw, Drumderry, Huntington (Co. Carlow), Johnstown, Kilcarry (Co. Carlow), Kildavin (Co. Carlow)

Placenames

Ballyshonock 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.