Ballykelly

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykelly, from 23 m² to 214,281 m² (21.43 ha, 52.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Ballykelly 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.

• 29 Jan 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the demolition of a section of an existing dwelling house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250102

• 13 Aug 2024Refused

  Permission for the demolition of a section of an existing dwelling house and the

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240962

• 9 Jul 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE RETENTION OF EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190977

• 28 Jun 2019N/a

  RETENTION OF EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING COTTAGE AND ENTRANCE

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190911

• 28 Jun 2019Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190910

• 2 Nov 2017Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING (A) INDEFINITE RETENTION PERMISSION FOR A CHANGE OF

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171414

• 6 Oct 2017N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING; (A) INDEFINITE RETENTION PERMISSION FOR A CHANGE O

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171312

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 Ballykelly.

Recorded monuments

• WX042-033001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a slight E-facing slope and on the S side of a minor E-W road. The Roman Catholic church of Ballykelly that was known as Kilmacree, was built in 1797 on land donated by Jacob Poole, and it closed in 1858.The remains consist of a rectangular structure (ext. dims. 17.05m E-W; 6.96m N-S) with the walls reduced in height (Wth 0.6-0.65m; H 1.2m), except the N wall which is incorporated into a handball alley. A pointed doorway in red brick in the N wall of the church communicates with the handball alley, and two memorials dating from 1798 and 1824 are incorporated into the outer face of the N church wall. The rectangular granite font (ext. dims 0.64m x 0.6m; H 0.41m; int. dims 0.43m x 0.42m; D c. 0.3m) from Kilmacree church (WX042-032001-), c. 600m to the S, is now at this church. (Hore 1925, 12 13) 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: 24 May, 2013

• WX042-033002 Font (present location)
  Description

  The rectangular granite font (ext. dims 0.64m x 0.6m; H 0.41m; int. dims 0.43m x 0.42m; D c. 0.3m) from Kilmacree church (WX042-032001-), c. 600m to the S, is now at the remains of Ballykelly Roman Catholic church (WX042-033001). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 May, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Ballykelly House, farm house, 1765–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, dated 1768; extant 1811, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting glazed porch to ground floor. "Improved", pre-1903, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" strips to corners. Square-headed central door opening into farmhouse with concealed dressings framing timber door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two sash windows without horns having part exposed sash boxes. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

• Church/chapel, 1926–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Handball alley, extant 1950, on a rectangular plan with part creeper- or ivy-covered cement rendered coursed rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter. Now disused. Road fronted on a corner site.

• Milestone/milepost, 1906–1922 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding inscribed cut-granite milestone, extant 1922, on a triangular plan. Road fronted on grass verge.

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 Ballykelly, 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.

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

Name

Ballykelly · Baile Uí Cheallaigh

Area

621,964 m² (62.2 ha, 153.69 acres)

Civil parish

Killiane, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Drinagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,114 people lived in 404 households in the Drinagh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfinoge Great, Ballykilliane, Grange, Killiane, Killiane Little, Killugger, Kilmacree, Sheepwalk

Placenames

Ballykelly 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.