Ballyvoodock
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyvaldon, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Bhuadaic
- Area
- 114.8 ha
- 284 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 8,091 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvoodock, from 1,492 m² to 561,830 m² (56.18 ha, 138.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyvoodock 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
26 May 2026N/a
Permission for retention of extension erected to the side of existing dwelling
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260680
1 May 2025Granted (conditional)
A ten year permission for development at Ballyvaldon and Ballyvoodock
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250509
20 May 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect an agricultural shed for storage of crops from meadow land
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240562
1 Feb 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for 1) conversion of attic space to playroom/games room
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230081
5 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house and to carry out all associated
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220902
12 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191640
18 Jul 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORAGE SHED
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180982
10 Jul 2018N/a
PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, TO ERECT A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND TO
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180946
17 Feb 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION OR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH ANCILLARY
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170180
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyvoodock.
Recorded monuments
- WX027-064 Ring-ditch
Description
Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a small enclosure (diam. c. 10m) is visible on a digital aerial photograph (WX027-064_1A) from 2004. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 July, 2012
- WX027-069 Moated site
Description
Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a rectangular enclosure (int. dims c. 45m NNE-SSW; c. 43m WNW-ESE) defined by wide ditches or moats (Wth c. 3m) on every side, except the S where there is the cropmark of a narrower drain is visible only on Google Earth (14/07/2018). The enclosure is within a drainage system that is aligned with it, and it was first reported by Faith Bailey. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 November, 2019
- WX027-070 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 44m N-S; c. 42m E-W) defined by single fosse feature (max. Wth c. 3m) is visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018). There is an entrance gap (Wth c. 4m) at NE. The enclosure is also faintly visible on OSI images (2005), and it was first reported by Faith Bailey. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 November 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyvoodock.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_3192 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyvoodock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyvoodock · Baile Bhuadaic
- Area
- 1,148,227 m² (114.82 ha, 283.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyvaldon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Ballyvaldon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyvaldon electoral division: 802 people in 282 households; 88% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyvaldon, Ballyvoodrane, Garraun, Garraun, Kilmacot, Kilnew, Knocknasilloge
- Placenames
- Ballyvoodock 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.