Ballyhealycastle

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhealycastle, from 64 m² to 111,636 m² (11.16 ha, 27.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhealycastle 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.

• 3 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251112

• 9 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)

  Outline permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Outline permission · Wexford County Council, 20241245

• 7 Jul 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for (i) the renovation of and approx. 82sqm extension to an existing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230785

• 23 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the installation of a new on-site wastewater treatment system

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230297

• 20 Dec 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the demolition of existing single storey extensions to the side

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221697

• 27 May 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development which will consist of the erection of a new fully

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220703

• 4 May 2022Refused

  Permission for (i) the renovation of, and approx. 112.3sqm extension to an

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220577

• 3 Feb 2022Refused

  Permission for development. The development will consist of a new fully

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220122

• 23 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development comprised of the demolitionof the exist single storey

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211344

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 Ballyhealycastle.

Recorded monuments

• WX052-022 Castle - tower house
  Description

  References to the Cheevers of Bailyhealy date from the 13th century. They may have been descended from Sir Harmmond Cheevers of Cheevers Manor, Norfolk, and ultimately from the lordship of Chievres in the Duchy of Lorraine (Jeffrey 1979, 56). William Chevre witnessed William Marshal’s charter to Tintern abbey in 1207-1213 (Hore 1900-11, vol. 2, 23). Nicholas Chever held Ballydufathely by half a knight’s fee from the Bigod estate in 1247, and Patrick Chevre held Balydoftanly by the same fee in 1307 (Brooks 1950, 33-4). In 1314 Nicholas Chevres inherited lands at Balycoloun, which is identified as Cullenstown in Bannow parish, and this is combined with Balyduhaly as possessions of William Chevyr in 1425 (ibid.). Both were owned by Christopher Cheevers at the end of the 16th century (Jeffrey 1979, 56). By the 16th century the Cheevers had established branches in Ballyseskin (WX052-006----) and Killilane (WX042-020001-), the latter probably by marriage. They also managed to establish themselves at Macetown in Co. Meath by 1536 (ibid. 57; D'Alton 1844, 2, 443-4). According to the Civil Survey (1654-8) Arthur Cheevers is displaced from Cullentstown, but owns 460 acres in the neighbouring townlands of Grange, Graigue and Ballymadder in Bannow parish (Simington 1953, 152), while John Cheever of Maystowne (Macetown, Co. Meath) owned 412 acres and the castle at Ballyhealy in Kilturk parish in 1640 (ibid. 130, 163). Arthur with 19 dependents is listed for transplantation in 1653 (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 502). The castle and lands at Ballyhealy were subsequently granted to a Col. Bunbury, who reputedly took down two of four towers at the castle, presumably a bawn, and a third tower was removed in the 19th century (Anon. 1863, 319), but there is no evidence of a bawn now. The castle is situated on a level landscape. The rectangular tower (ext. dims 10.35m E-W; 7.85m N-S) survives to the rebuilt battlements with good quoins and a base-batter, although the interior has been remodelled as a modern dwelling, now abandoned. All the dressed stone is Old Red Sandstone. A round-headed doorway (Wth 1.04m; H 1.54m) of undressed stone towards the W end of the S wall gives access through a lobby to the ground floor (int. dims 6.35m E-W; 2.57m N-S) which has six embrasures, two with original double-splayed loops surviving and an antechamber at the NW angle. A large secondary entrance has been inserted towards the N end of the E wall. From the lobby a mural stairs rises in the W wall to a lintelled doorway to the first floor under an E-W vault, with one narrow window that has a chamfered surround in the E wall. The stairs continues in the W wall to the second floor over the vault, which is entered by a lintelled doorway at the S end of the W wall. There is an oubliette or hidden chamber, now completely sealed, in the vault thickness under the landing here (Anon. 1863, 319). The N and E walls each have a two-light, cusped ogee-headed window, but with the central mullions missing, in arched embrasures with seats. E of its window the N wall has a fireplace with the mantel supported on corbels, and a slop-stone in an alcove to its E. There is a remodelled garderobe chamber at the NE angle. The S wall has a secondary window inserted in its most easterly embrasure, its small central embrasure is blocked and at the W end a doorway leads to a stairs that rises from the S end of the W wall. There is a rectangular antechamber between the two stairs in the W wall. A lintelled doorway accesses the third floor from the stairs in the W wall. This floor has an antechamber at the NW angle under the stairs, a single-light, cusped ogee-headed window in an embrasure with seats in the N wall with a fireplace, whose lintels are supported on corbels just to its W. An antechamber at the NW angle was probably a garderobe and the E wall has a double-light, cusped ogee-headed window in an embrasure with seats. The S wall has a blocked embrasure at its E end and a slit window at its E end. The mural stairs continues northwards in the W wall to the fourth floor, which has single lights in arched embrasures on the N, E and S walls. In addition the S wall has two arched embrasures that are blocked. The stairs continues in the W wall and turns onto the N wall where it emerges onto the wall-walk. A concrete roof has been provided and the crenellations are simple modern replacements. Even the wall-walk does not survive, but there are look-outs over each angle accessed by steps projecting from the inner faces of the E and W walls. 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: 18 February 2014

• WX052-022001 Bawn
  Description

  Bawn In the later 17th century the castle (WX052-022----) and land of the Cheevers at Ballyhealy were granted to a Col. Bunbury, who reputedly took down two of four towers at the castle, presumably a bawn, and a third tower was removed in the early 19th century (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 218; Anon. 1863, 319). There is no evidence of a bawn now. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 18 February, 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyhealycastle, 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 Ballyhealycastle.

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

Name

Ballyhealycastle · Caisleán Bhaile Uí hÉilí

Area

365,153 m² (36.52 ha, 90.23 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

Ballyhealy North, Ballyhealy South, Bastardstown, Newtown, Rickardstown

Placenames

Ballyhealycastle 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.