Ballyknockan

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyknockan, from 412 m² to 129,870 m² (12.99 ha, 32.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Ballyknockan 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 Ballyknockan 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 Ballyknockan.

Recorded monuments

• WX027-026 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked faintly as circular feature (diam. c. 35-40m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a low-lying landscape at the bottom of a S-facing slope. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. The mapped feature may have been intended to indicate wet ground. 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: 17 July 2012 Amended: 24 April, 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyknockan, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3127 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballyknockan · Baile an Chnocáin

Area

1,106,003 m² (110.6 ha, 273.3 acres)

Civil parish

Castleellis, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen South

Electoral division

Bolaboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,252 people lived in 440 households in the Bolaboy electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Askasilla, Ballynamona, Ballynamonabeg, Ballyroebeg, Castleellis, Slievenagrane

Placenames

Ballyknockan 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.