Ballyverroge

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyverroge, from 41 m² to 566,744 m² (56.67 ha, 140.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Ballyverroge 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.

• 31 Aug 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a slatted animal house with associated

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231030

• 19 Aug 2019Granted (unconditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC STOR

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20140565

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 Ballyverroge.

Recorded monuments

• WX034-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a shelf towards the bottom of the NW-facing slope of Slievecoiltia. This is a circular scrub-covered area (diam. 35m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by a low bank (Wth 3m; int. H c. 0.5m) N-E and a scarp (H 0.4m at S to 1.6m at W) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Rath (WX034-032----) is c. 260m to the W but c. 50m lower in elevation. 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: 13 Seotember, 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, 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 Ballyverroge.

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

Name

Ballyverroge · Baile Bhearóg

Area

1,639,969 m² (164 ha, 405.25 acres)

Civil parish

Whitechurch, and its townlands

Barony

Shelburne

Electoral division

Whitechurch, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Whitechurch electoral division: 678 people in 227 households; 92% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinteskin, Ballylane West, Ballymaclare, Kilclammon, Slaght, Slievecoiltia Commons, Tellarought

Placenames

Ballyverroge 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.