Ballyheige
Ballyheige is a townland in the civil parish of Skreen, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Buaile Thaidhg.
Parcel 376825
- Area
- 1,752 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 112 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballyheige
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.
- WX033-008001 Church
Description
Located at the W edge of a slight N-S ridge. This is the site of the parish church of Screen – Irish: scrín meaning a shrine - within a raised rectangular graveyard (dims. 39m E-W; 27m N-S). According to a Visitation by Thomas Ram, the Protestant bishop of Ferns, in 1615 this church was impropriate to Henry Wallop and the name of the priest, if any, is not recorded. Nor is the condition of the church building recorded (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 268). John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933a, vol. 1, 354) records the former existence of a church, no trace of which is visible at ground level. An oval stone (dims. 0.52m x 0.35m; H 0.35m) with an oval socket, which is almost buried in the NE part of the graveyard, is regarded as a font but may be a cross-base. There is a natural spring c. 100m to the W, where patterns were held on 27th September until c. 1820. (ibid.). A geophysical survey (16R185) conducted by Earthsound Archaeological Geophysics in the field to the W (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 60m NW-SE) tentatively identified two possible ditches as well as a number of pits. Archaeological testing (16E0616) uncovered a number of archaeological features consistently across the area consisting mostly of pits, none of which were excavated but the pottery and other material recovered, including a late fifteenth century Geraldine groat suggests a high medieval date. (McLoughlin 2017) See the attached section from the Down Survey (1656-8) parish map (N at top) 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: 4 September, 2012 Amended: 7 January 2019
- WX033-008002 Graveyard
Description
Located at the W edge of a slight N-S ridge. The site of the parish church of Screen (WX033-008001-) is within a raised rectangular graveyard (dims. 39m E-W; 27m N-S). The possible font (WX033-008003-) is in the NE part of the graveyard. A geophysical survey (16R185) conducted by Earthsound Archaeological Geophysics in the field to the W (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 60m NW-SE) tentatively identified two possible ditches as well as a number of pits. Archaeological testing (16E0616) uncovered a number of archaeological features consistently across the area consisting mostly of pits, none of which were excavated but the pottery and other material recovered, including a late fifteenth century Geraldine groat suggests a high medieval date. (McLoughlin 2017) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 September, 2012 Amended: 3 February 2022
- WX033-008003 Font
Description
Located at the W edge of a slight N-S ridge. The site of the parish church of Screen (WX033-008001-) is within a raised rectangular graveyard (WX032-008002-). An oval stone (dims. 0.52m x 0.35m; H 0.35m) with an oval socket, which is almost buried in the graveyard, is regarded as a font but may be a cross-base. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 September, 2012
Architectural heritage
- House, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry house with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. "Improved", post-1925, producing present composition to accommodate alternative use. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack having precast concrete corbelled stepped capping, concrete or rendered coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined battered walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 100.9 ha
- 249 acres
- Land parcels
- 64
- registered freehold, median 2,077 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyheige, from 100 m² to 308,486 m² (30.85 ha, 76.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyheige 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
15 May 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION OF (A) ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DEVELOPMENT
Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20190646
26 Apr 2019N/a
RETENTION OF (A) ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DEVELOPMENT
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190560
23 Jul 2018Granted (conditional)
RETENTION PLANNING PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS TO THE DESIGN OF A DWELLING
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20181002
23 May 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION AND PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WIT
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160545
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 Ballyheige.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyheige.
Architectural heritage
- Kelly's Thatch Cottage, house, 1842–1903 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three- or four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, extant 1903, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Refenestrated, ----. Reroofed, ----. Replacement hipped oat thatch roof with chicken wire-covered rope twist above paired exposed hazel stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, rendered off-central dwarf chimney stack having chamfered capping, and exposed hazel stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls on rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" strips to corners. Square-headed off-central door opening in elliptical-headed recess with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed aluminium panelled door. Square-headed (west) or paired square-headed (east) flanking window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement aluminium casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron gate.
- House, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry house with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. "Improved", post-1925, producing present composition to accommodate alternative use. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack having precast concrete corbelled stepped capping, concrete or rendered coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined battered walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.
- Patrick Fortune, house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry house with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. "Improved", pre-1903, producing present composition to accommodate alternative use. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack on red brick Running bond base having shallow stringcourse below capping, concrete or rendered coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined battered walls. Pair of square-headed off-central door openings with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door (west) or glazed timber panelled double doors (east). Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two (ground floor) or three-over-six (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes with two-over-two timber sash windows to side elevations. Set perpendicular to road.
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 Ballyheige, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyheige.
- 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 Ballyheige with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyheige · Buaile Thaidhg
- Area
- 1,008,901 m² (100.89 ha, 249.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Skreen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Ardcolm, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 982 people lived in 368 households in the Ardcolm electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinrooaun, Ballyfarnoge, Ballylemin, Ballymore, Garrylough Lower, Glebe
- Placenames
- Ballyheige 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.