Ballystraw
Ballystraw is a townland in the civil parish of Templetown, barony of Shelburne, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Sratha.
- Area
- 71.7 ha
- 177 acres
- Land parcels
- 48
- registered freehold, median 3,327 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballystraw, from 174 m² to 249,184 m² (24.92 ha, 61.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Ballystraw 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
9 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for renovation and extension to an existing dwelling house
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241524
29 Jun 2023Refused
Permission for renovation & extension to an existing dwelling house, including
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230747
6 Jun 2023N/a
Permission for renovation and extension to an existing dwelling house, including
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230629
3 May 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a single storey split level dwelling, works will include
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220572
11 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for development consisting of: Chang of use to an area of the site
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220469
21 Mar 2022N/a
Permission for development which will consist of: Change of use to an area from
Permission, 60 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220364
15 Jun 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission in respect of the following works to an existing dwelling at Ballystr
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200630
31 Jul 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191092
21 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)
(1) PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF GARAGE AS BUILT (2) PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF US
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190868
21 May 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190684
13 May 2019N/a
RETENTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE AS BUILT AND FOR CHANGE OF USE OF ABOVE DOMESTIC
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190635
20 Mar 2018Refused
RETENTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE AS BUILT AND FOR CHANGE OF USE OF ABOVE DOMESTIC GA
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180331
15 Jan 2018Refused
PERMISSION IN RESPECT OF THE FOLLOWING WORKS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180032
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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Duncannon Sandhills 001738
Recorded monuments
- WX044-047 Enclosure
Description
Situated on top of a broad hill, with the estuary of the Barrow/Nore/Suir and sea-cliffs c. 100m to the SW. The cropmark of a subrectangular area (dims c. 50m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (101) 30-34) taken in July 2000. The cropmark of a drain extends SW to the cliff and the enclosure could be a field. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 June, 2013
Architectural heritage
- Ballystraw, farm house, 1770–1775 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three- or five-bay two-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, built 1771, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Reroofed, 1925. Sold, 1944. Refenestrated, ----. Pitched slate roof centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having "Cavetto"-detailed capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Segmental-headed central door opening with concrete step threshold, and concealed dressings framing replacement glazed aluminium door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement aluminium casement windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase on a dog leg plan, and timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors. Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast piers to perimeter having rubble stone capping supporting flat iron double gates.
- Bella Vista, gates/railings/walls, 1875–1885 · Regional interest
Description
Gateway, built 1880, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of channelled drag edged dragged fossilised limestone ashlar piers on moulded cushion courses on plinths having "Acanthus"-detailed urn-topped cornice capping supporting looped wrought iron double gates. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Bella Vista.
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 Ballystraw, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballystraw.
- 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 Ballystraw with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballystraw · Baile Sratha
- Area
- 716,666 m² (71.67 ha, 177.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templetown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelburne
- Electoral division
- Templetown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 840 people lived in 261 households in the Templetown electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 35% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aldridge, Ballinphile, Clonsharragh, Kilbride, Shanacloon
- Placenames
- Ballystraw 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.