Ballysimon

107 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballysimon, from 66 m² to 175,471 m² (17.55 ha, 43.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballysimon 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.

• 17 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage. @ Bal

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260471

• 27 Feb 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of (a) an Astro turf all weather playing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260248

• 7 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associa

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251270

• 6 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of the following: the existing domestic

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251264

• 21 May 2025Refused

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250586

• 31 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231308

• 9 Aug 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services, domestic garage and stables with

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221070

• 6 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211418

• 12 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to retain 2 no. single storey extensions to the rear of the property

  Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211102

• 21 Apr 2021N/a

  Permission to retain 2 no. single storey extensions to the rear of property and

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210582

• 12 Mar 2021N/a

  Permission to retain 2 no. single storey extensions to the rear of the property

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210339

• 11 Feb 2021N/a

  Retention planning permission to retain 2 no. single storey extensions to the

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210190

• 23 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for proposed flood lights to lower pitch and associated site works

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201390

• 27 Nov 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION CONSEQUENT ON THE GRANT OF OUTLINE PLANNING PERMISSION REGISTER NO. 2

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171547

• 13 Nov 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171461

• 2 Jun 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A STEEL FRAMED BUILDING FOR USE AS AN INDOOR SPORTS ARENA

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170680

• 20 Mar 2017Refused

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170325

• 29 Aug 2016Refused

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160963

• 28 Apr 2016Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO SEWAGE SYSTEM, SITE LAYOUT AND SITE BOUNDARIES FROM

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160428

• 29 Feb 2016Refused

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160183

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 Ballysimon.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballysimon.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1842–1903 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1903, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Reroofed, ----. Now disused. Replacement hipped oat thatch roof overhanging lean-to roof to window opening to dormer attic with paired exposed hazel stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having stepped capping, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast battered walls with rendered "bas-relief" strips to corners. Square-headed central door opening in segmental-headed recess with concrete threshold, and rendered "bas-relief" surround framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes (ground floor) or timber casement windows (dormer attic). Set in landscaped grounds perpendicular to road with roughcast piers to perimeter having rendered segmental capping supporting flat iron "farm gate".

• Post box, 1881–1901 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron "wall box" post box, between 1881-1901; extant 1924, with "VR [Victoria Regina]" royal cipher. Set in roughcast boundary wall.

• Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1865–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1870-1; dedicated 1871, on a rectangular plan with abbreviated single-bay full-height buttressed breakfront to entrance (west) front. Stabilised, 1961, producing present composition. Renovated, 1968, with sanctuary reordered. Replacement pitched slate roof with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gable (east) on cut-granite "Cavetto" corbel kneelers with Cross finial to apex, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on "Cavetto"-detailed exposed timber rafters. Part repointed tuck pointed snecked rubble Knockavocka stone battered walls with cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Lancet window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-granite surrounds having concave reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass roundels. Lancet "Trinity Window" to chancel (east) with cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (west) front approached by flight of four cut-granite steps with cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered rebated reveals framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overlight. Lancet "Trinity Window" to gable with cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass roundels. Interior including vestibule (west); square-headed door opening into nave with replacement glazed timber double doors; full-height interior open into roof with frosted glass "Trinity Window" (west), carpeted central aisle between replacement timber pews (1968), timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled wainscoting supporting timber dado rail, paired Gothic-style timber stations between frosted glass windows with pair of stained glass memorial windows (1898), pair of cut-limestone Classical-style wall monuments (ob. 1863; 1889), herring bone-pattern timber parquet stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, 1968, with trefoil-detailed timber panelled altar below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (----), and exposed braced strutted collared timber roof construction on cruciform-detailed cut-granite corbels with wind braced timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling on moulded plasterwork cornice. Set in relandscaped grounds.

• O Cúipéir, farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak. Renovated, 2005. Replacement hipped water reed thatch roof with paired exposed steel or wire stretchers to rendered raised ridge having blind scallops, red brick Running bond chimney stack having rendered chamfered capping, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls with limewashed rendered buttress to front (south) elevation. Square-headed off-central door opening with concrete threshold, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows replacing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set perpendicular to road.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballysimon, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3014 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Ballysimon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballysimon · Baile na Síomonach

Area

1,250,560 m² (125.06 ha, 309.02 acres)

Civil parish

Clone, and its townlands

Barony

Scarawalsh

Electoral division

Tinnacross, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,037 people lived in 350 households in the Tinnacross electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymoty Beg, Ballymurtagh, Garryphelim, Kilconnib, Knockduff, Monagear

Placenames

Ballysimon 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.