Ballask

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballask, from 78 m² to 58,750 m² (5.88 ha, 14.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Ballask 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.

• 18 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a single storey extension to the house

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250888

• 26 May 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of the following: House as built, separate garage,

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220699

• 27 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for (i) retention of change of use of existing domestic garage grante

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211656

• 11 Jun 2021Refused

  Permission for the construction of 6 no. detached houses and connection to exist

  Permission, 6 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210915

• 4 Feb 2020Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE RENOVATION OF THE EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING AND THE CON

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200123

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 Ballask.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballask.

Architectural heritage

• Carnaghvilla, farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return (east). Now disused. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, concrete or rendered coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on limewashed rendered eaves. Limewashed rendered walls. Segmental-headed central door opening with overgrown threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Segmental-headed flanking window openings with limewashed sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows having blind fanlights. Segmental-headed window openings (half-dormer attic) with limewashed sills, and concealed dressings framing four-over-eight timber sash window having fanlights. Square-headed window openings (east) with limewashed sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight or six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled reveals or shutters to window openings. Set back from line of road in unkempt landscaped grounds with limewashed piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting barley twist-detailed flat iron gate.

• Teach Samhrain, house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Vacant, 1901. Occupied, 1911. Renovated, 1996. Repaired, 2004, to accommodate continued occasional use. Replacement hipped water reed thatch roof on oat thatch base with chicken wire-covered exposed hazel lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered off-central chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Replacement rendered battered walls; rendered surface finish to rear (west) elevation centred on rendered battered buttress. Segmental-headed off-central door opening below "oeil-de-boeuf" with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows replacing six-over-six (south) or two-over-two (north) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from road in landscaped grounds with limewashed cylindrical piers to perimeter having conical capping.

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 Ballask, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballask.

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 Ballask with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballask · Baile Easca

Area

276,964 m² (27.7 ha, 68.44 acres)

Civil parish

Carn, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Lady's Island, the unit of the census

Census 2022

625 people lived in 249 households in the Lady's Island electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballytra, Carna, Churchtown, Clougheast, Crosslands

Placenames

Ballask 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.