Ballycappoge

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycappoge, from 536 m² to 217,159 m² (21.72 ha, 53.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballycappoge 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballycappoge in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballycappoge.

Recorded monuments

• WX047-002001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Located on a fairly level landscape. William Brun and his son Nicholas witnessed the charter of Hervey de Montmorency to Dunbrody abbey (WX039-029001-) in 1178-82. Mulrankin was held by half a knight’s fee by William Brun in 1247 and by Nicholas Brun in 1307 from the Bigod estate (Brooks 1950, 34-5). Patrick Browne is mentioned with others in 1381 in connection with 160 acres at Ballycappoge and the unknown Drumfellin townland, which Robert Brown owned at his death in 1634 (Jeffrey 1979, 54-5). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) David Brown owned the castle and 180 acres at Ballycappoge in 1640 (Simington 1953, 156), but Drumfellin is no longer mentioned and has probably been subsumed into Ballycappoge. The site of the castle is marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, which places it in the interior of the moated site (WX047-002----), which probably was the castle. Archaeological testing (06E1017) c. 100m to the SE produced no related material (McLoughlin 2009). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 October, 2013

• WX047-002002 Moated site
  Description

  Located on a fairly level landscape. William Brun and his son Nicholas witnessed the charter of Hervey de Montmorency to Dunbrody abbey (WX039-029001-) in 1178-82. Mulrankin was held by half a knight’s fee by William Brun in 1247 and by Nicholas Brun in 1307 from the Bigod estate (Brooks 1950, 34-5), but the original caput is likely to have been the motte at Oldhall (WX047-0024----). Patrick Browne is mentioned with others in 1381 in connection with 160 acres at Ballycappoge and the unknown Drumfellin townland, which Robert Brown owned at his death in 1634 (Jeffrey 1979, 54-5). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) David Brown owned the castle and 180 acres at Ballycappoge in 1640 (Simington 1953, 156), but Drumfellin is no longer mentioned and has probably been subsumed into Ballycappoge. The moated site is a rectangular area (dims. 28m NE-SW; at least 44m NW-SE) defined by two overgrown fosses or moats (Wth 2.2-4m; D 1-1.8m) and an intervening flat topped bank (Wth of base c. 9m; H 3-3.4m) surviving on all sides the except SE, where there is a farmyard. It is used as a haggard with a farm building at the centre. The site of the castle (WX047-002001-) is marked as being within the moated site only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, but the moated site probably was the castle. Archaeological testing (06E1017) c. 100m to the SE produced no archaeological material or archaeological features (McLoughlin 2009). (Barry 1977, 213, WX 8) 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: 11 October, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1850; extant 1853, on an L-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor; single-bay (south) or two-bay (north) two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1911. Refenestrated, ----. Hipped and pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having chamfered capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rusticated panelled quoins to corners. Central door opening into farmhouse. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting looped wrought iron double gates.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballycappoge, 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 Ballycappoge.

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.

No address of the register names Ballycappoge with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballycappoge · Baile Copóg

Area

1,177,808 m² (117.78 ha, 291.04 acres)

Civil parish

Mulrankin, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Newcastle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

537 people lived in 185 households in the Newcastle electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cherriestown, Common, Gardamus Great, Harpoonstown, Heavenstown, Johnstown, Moor, Newcastle, Sleedagh

Placenames

Ballycappoge 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.