Ballyvadden

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvadden, from 241 m² to 347,564 m² (34.76 ha, 85.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Ballyvadden 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.

• 15 Nov 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house and to carry out all associated

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20231370

• 8 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the demolition of an unihabitable dwelling house with ancillary

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211423

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 Ballyvadden.

Recorded monuments

• WX021-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 38m) defined by a denuded earthen bank (Wth 6m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m). There is no visible fosse or entrance but the perimeter is incorporated into a NE-SW field bank at E and there is a quarry immediately to the NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 15 June 2012

• WX021-049 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle NE-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. The parchmark of a subcircular area (dims c. 47m E-W; c. 42m N-S) defined by a slight but continuous feature with straight sections at N and E is visible only on Google Earth (14/07/2018). There is a subrectangular feature (dims c. 24m x c. 20m) in the interior, which may be a quarry. It was first reported by Simon Dowling. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 March 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyvadden.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyvadden · Baile na bhFeadán

Area

831,521 m² (83.15 ha, 205.47 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmuckridge, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen North

Electoral division

Wells, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Wells electoral division: 887 people in 295 households; 83% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhubbock, Ballynahown, Dughlone, Newtown

Placenames

Ballyvadden 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.