Ballyhire

392 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhire, from 7 m² to 85,500 m² (8.55 ha, 21.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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 Ballyhire 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.

• 9 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260020

• 12 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extension to the

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251647

• 16 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the provision of a dwelling house, a domestic garage, an on-site

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251484

• 22 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of a domestic garage

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250900

• 5 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the demolition to both existing rear ground floor

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250130

• 9 Dec 2024N/a

  Permission for the demolition to both existing rear ground floor dining

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241529

• 8 Oct 2024N/a

  Permission for the provision of a dwelling house, a domestic garage

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241234

• 10 Aug 2023Refused

  Permission for retention for the infilling and piping of an existing open ditch

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230926

• 20 Jan 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of alterations an extensions to an existing

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230048

• 21 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house,

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221401

• 27 May 2022Refused

  Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house,

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220708

• 6 May 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions to existing d

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220598

• 6 Jan 2022Refused

  Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions to an existin

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220005

• 1 Dec 2021N/a

  Permission for the proposed erection of alteration of alterations and extension

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211874

• 3 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a single storey extension to the side and rear of

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211702

• 4 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the (A) Demolition of existing sun room to rear (south west)

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211541

• 10 May 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of first floor extensions and general alteration

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210710

• 23 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development which will consist of the construction of two no. sin

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210604

• 4 Feb 2020Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS AS CONSTRUCTED TO EXISTIN

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200121

• 31 May 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED RETENTION OF A GAMES ROOM/ DOMESTIC STORE BUILDING AUXIL

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160592

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: St. Helen's Burrow 000782

Recorded monuments

• WX048-034 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Balkwych was held by Martin Cod for the service of a quarter of a knight in 1247 from the Valence property, and in 1324 Hugh Lampet held Balyur (Balyen) for the same service (Brooks 1950, 124-6). In 1390 a jury found that Rathaspick (WX042-008----) and Ballyhire were held jointly by military service, but the two properties had been separated at some stage, Rathaspick going to Codd and Ballyhire to Lampert (Hore 1925, 16-7). Rathaspick may have been held by a money rent as it does not appear in any of the feodaries. Jack Lampert owned a castle, a stone hall and 100 acres at Ballyhire when he died in 1624 (Jeffrey 1979, 7-8). Philip Lampert owned 100 acres at Ballywith and 10 at Ballyhire in 1640 (Simington 1953, 307), and James Lampert with eight dependents was listed for transplantation in 1653 (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 502). The castle and an attached structure are depicted on the barony and parish map of the Down Survey (1656-8). The castle is located in a low-lying landscape. The base of a tower (ext. dims. 8.5m N-S; 8.45m E-W; H 1.2-2.3m) survives with no discernible features. Archaeological testing (97E0357) identified an E-W bawn wall S of the castle, and while some cobbled surfaces were recorded no other structures were identified (O’Donovan 1998). See the attached view from the Down Survey parish map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725). 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: 3 January 2014

• WX048-034001 Bawn
  Description

  Ballyhire castle is located in a low-lying landscape, but only the base of a tower house (WX048-034----) survives. Archaeological testing (97E0357) identified an E-W bawn wall S of the castle, and while some cobbled surfaces were recorded no other structures were identified (O’Donovan 1998). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 3 January, 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyhire.

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 Ballyhire, about 1 in 20 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 Ballyhire.

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

Name

Ballyhire · Baile Shaighir

Area

719,564 m² (71.96 ha, 177.81 acres)

Civil parish

St. Helens, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

St. Helen's, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,719 people lived in 1,005 households in the St. Helen's electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballywitch, Bing, Boher, Burrow, Fasagh, Riscrann, St. Helen's, Waddingsland

Placenames

Ballyhire 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.