Martingale
Martingale is a townland in the civil parish of Ballynaslaney, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Martingale.
- Area
- 49.1 ha
- 121 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 3,516 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Martingale, from 132 m² to 117,175 m² (11.72 ha, 28.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Martingale 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
18 Mar 2026Refused
Permission to construct a dwelling house and a domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260335
15 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211755
12 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211118
30 Jun 2021Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211034
1 May 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of conservatory constructed to the side of dwellinghous
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200478
17 Apr 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct an Indoor Horse Arena and all associated site works
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200437
23 Oct 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE,
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171371
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 Martingale.
Recorded monuments
- WX032-063 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a slight N-facing slope. The cropmark of a subcircular area (dims c. 40m N-S; c. 35m E-W) defined by a fosse is visible on iMAPs (2022) but the perimeter is only clearly visible E-S-NW. It is also faintly visible on Google Earth (18/09/2019), and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 June 2023
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Martingale.
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 Martingale, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Martingale.
- 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 Martingale with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Martingale · Martingale
- Area
- 490,979 m² (49.1 ha, 121.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballynaslaney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Edermine, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,597 people lived in 537 households in the Edermine electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Martingale 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.