Ballask
Ballask is a townland in the civil parish of Kilturk, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Easca.
Parcel 381818
- Area
- 121 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 113 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
- Ballask
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2956 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 69.2 ha
- 171 acres
- Land parcels
- 127
- registered freehold, median 1,329 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 18
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
127 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballask, from 2 m² to 93,574 m² (9.36 ha, 23.12 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 May 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the change of use of an existing dwelling house
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260644
31 Mar 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of a domestic garage and storage building
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260386
14 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of extension to GAA Clubrooms and all associated
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260031
17 Dec 2025N/a
Permission for the construction of extension to GAA
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251683
23 Jul 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of (a) the erection of a timber pergola to roadside
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240872
25 Aug 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of alterations to house design granted in planning
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230993
3 Feb 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the use of ca. 6sqm of an existing retail unit (granted Planning
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230100
26 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to install a 30m multi-user telecommunications support structure
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221433
9 Sept 2022N/a
Permission to install a 30m multi-user telecommunications support structure
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221210
3 Mar 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the development of a fully serviced single storey dwelling and
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220266
21 Jan 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for development consisting of the raising of existing eaves and roof
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220061
24 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an extension to an existing agricultural storage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210423
12 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for Retention for minor alterations during construction and alteratio
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210338
25 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of an All Weather Outdoor Training facility and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210079
14 Jan 2021N/a
Permission for the construction of 1) An all-weather outdoor training facility a
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210042
13 Nov 2017Granted (unconditional)
CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH ASSOCIATED
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20120697
28 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170367
24 Mar 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE RENOVATION OF & EXTENSION TO, AN EXISTING DWELLING CONSISTING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160303
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 Ballask.
Recorded monuments
- WX052-047001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature with an entrance gap at E is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX052 047001_1A to _4A). It contains a ring-ditch (WX052-047002-) (diam. c. 5m) inside the perimeter at NNE. Ring ditch (WX052-047003-) is c. 50m to the WNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 03 March 2010 Amended: 18 February, 2014
- WX052-047002 Ring-ditch
Description
Situated on a level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (WX052-047001-) containing a ring-ditch (diam. c. 5m) inside the perimeter at NNE is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX052-047002_1A to _4A). The ring-ditch is defined by a continuous ditch feature. Ring-ditch (WX052-047003-) is c. 50m to the WNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 03 March 2010 Amended: 18 February, 2014
- WX052-047003 Ring-ditch
Description
Situated on a level landscape. The cropmark of a ring-ditch (diam. c. 8m) defined by a continuous ditch feature is visible on aerial photographs (WX053-047003_1A to _4A). Rath (WX052-047001-) is c. 50m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 03 March 2010 Amended: 18 February, 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballask.
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 Ballask, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2956 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Ballask, Kilmore8 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballask · Baile Easca
- Area
- 691,637 m² (69.16 ha, 170.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilturk, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bargy
- Electoral division
- Kilmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,469 people lived in 925 households in the Kilmore electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyseskin, Hill, Lannagh, Newtown, Rickardstown, Sarshill, Soughane
- 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.