Baltyfarrell
Baltyfarrell is a townland in the civil parish of Kilnahue, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Bailte Ó bhFearaíl.
- Area
- 70.4 ha
- 174 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 11,672 m² (1.17 ha, 2.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Baltyfarrell, from 101 m² to 169,904 m² (16.99 ha, 41.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Baltyfarrell 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
16 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of existing agricultutal building for the purpose for s
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211318
6 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211264
12 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210523
13 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a dwelling house with services, domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20201340
14 Aug 2020Refused
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20200935
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 Baltyfarrell.
Recorded monuments
- WX006-002 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Description
Marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated just off the crest of a slight N-S spur, on a SW-facing slope. It is recorded as a structure almost obscured by soil (OSFM). There are no visible remains of any structure and there is no local knowledge of one. The possible megalithic tomb (WX006-003----) is c. 240m to the ENE, and the standing stone (WX006-008) is c. 300m to the SW. 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: 29 February 2012
- WX006-008 Standing stone
Description
Marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch maps, and situated towards the bottom of a SW-facing slope with a N-S stream c. 90m to the W. It was described in 1939 as a recatangular block (dims of base c. 0.6m x c. 0.5m; H c. 1m) (OSFM). It was not visible at ground level in pasture in 1987. The possible megalithic structure (WX005-002-----) is c. 300m 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: 20 November 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Baltyfarrell.
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 Baltyfarrell, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Baltyfarrell with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Baltyfarrell · Bailte Ó bhFearaíl
- Area
- 704,474 m² (70.45 ha, 174.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnahue, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Monaseed, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 725 people lived in 226 households in the Monaseed electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughnamaulmeen, Buckstown, Coolthawn, Knockbrandon Lower, Motabower
- Placenames
- Baltyfarrell 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.