Ballymacar

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacar, from 21 m² to 364,319 m² (36.43 ha, 90.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Ballymacar 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.

• 23 May 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of extensions to the front and rear of

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240582

• 6 Nov 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of an agricultural shed

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231341

• 5 May 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for demolition of existing garage and construction of a single

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230483

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 Ballymacar.

Recorded monuments

• WX034-004001 Moated site
  Description

  Located in a fairly steep-sided S-N valley with a stream c. 55m to the W. This is a rectangular scrub-covered area (dims. 35m E-W; 23m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-3.7m; int. H 0.5-0.7m; ext. H 1.2-1.4m) on the E side and adjacent parts of the N and S sides. There are flat-bottomed moats (Wth of top 4-5.5m; Wth of base 1.7-3.5m; ext. D 1-1.8m) on each side that are fed from springs just to the E, and a leat leads from the SW angle towards the stream. In the N part of the interior is the remains of a stone-walled building (int. dims. 18m E-W; 4.5m N-S) defined by walls (Wth 1m; H 0.5m) obscured by the spread of cairn material. (Barry 1977, 214, WX 14) 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: 13 September, 2012

• WX034-004002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Located in a fairly steep-sided S-N valley with the stream c. 55m to the W. In the N part of the interior of moated site (WX034-004001-) is the remains of a stone-walled building (int. dims. 18m E-W; 4.5m N-S) defined by walls (Wth 1m; H 0.5m) obscured by the spread of cairn material. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 September, 2012

• WX034-005 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated just off the E side of the summit of a hill and overlooking a col c. 200m to the SE with a higher NE-SW ridge c. 600m beyond the col to the SE. It is not visible at ground level in a cereal crop but there is a slight bend (C c. 20m) in a field bank at W. 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: 13 September, 2012

• WX034-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a small D-shaped embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 25m NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE) truncated by a WNW-ESE lane at S on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and located in the bottom of a steep-sided SE-NW valley with the headwaters of a stream just to the S. It is visible at ground level as a slightly dished grass-covered area (diam. c. 30m). It may have been a rath. 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: 13 September, 2012 Amended: 1 May, 2014

• WX034-007 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as ‘Byrne’s Well’ in gothic lettering on both. It is located towards the top of a steep W-facing slope. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 ‘Burns Well’ had been a place where the stations were performed at one time, but the name of the saint was forgotten (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 258). There is no evidence of a well in a pasture field. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 September, 2012

Architectural heritage

• Erin Vale, farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor. "Improved", pre-1902, producing present composition. Sold, 1910. Occupied, 1911. Renovated, ----. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal or tapered pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards. Replacement cement rendered, ruled and lined walls bellcast over rendered plinth with rusticated rendered piers to corners. Elliptical- or segmental-headed central door opening into farmhouse with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights below fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and cement rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds

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 Ballymacar, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2555 (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 Ballymacar with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballymacar · Baile Mhic Ara

Area

2,471,824 m² (247.18 ha, 610.8 acres)

Civil parish

Oldross, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Rochestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

265 people lived in 84 households in the Rochestown electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Arnestown, Begerin (Loftus), Finshoge, Rochestown, Ryleen

Placenames

Ballymacar 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.