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Ballywish

Townland in the civil parish of Ardcavan, barony of Shelmaliere East, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Bhois

Area
15.8 ha
39 acres
Land parcels
112
registered freehold, median 285 m²
Zoning
—
not in a zoned settlement
Planning
7
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

570 m across. Click a parcel to see it. © Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

112 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballywish, from 42 m² to 59,470 m² (5.95 ha, 14.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Ballywish 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

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 Ballywish.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballywish.

Architectural heritage

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

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_3053 (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 Ballywish with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

The townland

Name
Ballywish · Baile Bhois
Area
158,455 m² (15.85 ha, 39.16 acres)
Civil parish
Ardcavan, and its townlands
Barony
Shelmaliere East
Electoral division
Ardcavan, the unit of the census
Census 2022
Ardcavan electoral division: 3,011 people in 1,125 households; 79% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Ballymartin, Castlebridge, Glasganny, Pollregan
Placenames
Ballywish 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.