Ballyteige

89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyteige, from 82 m² to 296,278 m² (29.63 ha, 73.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballyteige 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.

• 5 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)

  A 10 year planning permission for development of an Integrated Tourism Resort

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250962

• 2 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241210

• 17 May 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the development of: Forlorn Road Carpark, Construction

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240553

• 8 May 2024N/a

  Permission for the development of Forlorn Road Carpark

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240519

• 24 Apr 2024N/a

  Planning permission for the development of: Forlorn Road Carpark: Construction

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240449

• 4 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of an existing agricultural access laneway to the site

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20231186

• 12 Sept 2023N/a

  1) Permission for improvements to the existing agricultural access laneway to

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231093

• 22 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development which will consist of internal alterations to provide

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230286

• 21 Dec 2022Refused

  Permission for; (1) retention of the access laneway to the site, (2) permission

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221707

• 6 Dec 2022N/a

  Permission for retention of the access laneway to the site, (2) permission for

  Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221618

• 30 Aug 2022N/a

  Permission for A) the proposed erection of 1 no. fully serviced dwelling house a

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221150

• 15 Jul 2022Refused

  Permission for the erection of a single storey dwelling house and all associated

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220964

• 28 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic shed,

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220250

• 13 Jan 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic shed, i

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220019

• 16 Dec 2021N/a

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, installation of

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211984

• 20 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house, site enteran

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211339

• 7 Aug 2020Refused

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house, site

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200902

• 24 Feb 2020Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION OF EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTNG DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200226

• 10 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)

  TEN YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191633

• 3 Dec 2019Refused

  PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A TWO BEDROOM DWELLING HOUSE (FOR USE AS A GRANNY

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191595

• 24 Oct 2018Granted (conditional)

  PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, SHED, C

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181468

• 29 Aug 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING BUILDIN

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20181174

• 27 Nov 2017Granted (unconditional)

  CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE & DOMESTIC GARAGE ALL WITH

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20120956

• 1 Apr 2016Granted (conditional)

  DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING PROCESS

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160323

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 Ballyteige.

Recorded monuments

• WX052-018001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  References to the Whitty family of Ballyteige as vassals of the Marshalls and their heirs date from the early 13th century when they also held land in Waterford from the King. Robert de Wythay held Ballythayk by half a knight’s fee from the Valence estate in 1247, and Richard Wytteye held Ballytayk in 1324 by the same fee. Almost all the Whitty owners can be traced, and around 1425 Ballycage was held by Robert Whitty, who was Bishop of Ferns (1415-57) (Brooks 1950, 113-5). Art Mac Murrough Kavanagh burned a castle at Ballyteige in 1408 (Jeffrey 1979, 61 3), and the tower house may have been built as a replacement after that date. Richard Whitty died in 1539 and his son, Robert, a minor, inherited as a ward of Sir Nicholas Devereux of Ballymagir (WX046-052001-) (ibid.). Richard Whitty, born in 1546, married Sir Nicholas’ daughter, Johanna, and their son, Walter, is commemorated on the Whitty memorial (WX052-002003-) at Kilmore church (Whitty 1872). In 1594 Spanish privateers, seeking information on another vessel under a Capt. Meredith that was to land some dignitaries in Ireland including the Catholic archbishop of Tuam and Thomas FitzJohn FitzGerald of Desmond, kidnapped Richard and took him back to Spain (Ffrench 1898; Roche 1977, 40-2). Meredith's ship was probably lost at sea but Richard was released and had to make his own way back to Ballyteige, although the State Papers do not relate how (Cal. S. P. vol. 5, 241, 290, 293-4). When he died in 1623 Richard Whitty possessed 180 acres at Ballyteige together with the castle and windmill as well as 120 acres of the rabbit warren (Burrow townland). He also had land and the hunting of birds and seals on the Saltees and portion of the fish that might be landed at Kilmore (Jeffrey 1979, 63). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Walter’s son, Richard, held a total of 490 acres in Kilmore parish in 1640, at Ballyteige (200), Crossfarnack (120), Nemistown (120) and Newtown (60) (Simington 1953, 133). Richard was listed for transplantation to Connaught with 32 dependents in 1653 (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 503). The Whitty land was granted ultimately to the Colclough’s of Tintern (WX045-027002-). John Colclough of Ballyteige, a United Irishman, was executed after the 1798 rebellion after he was captured on the Saltees (Roche 1977, 49-59), but his daughter married a Capt. J. Young (Jeffrey 1979, 62). Their daughter sold Ballyteige castle to Edward Meadows, from whom it passed to the Grant family (Roche 1977, 58). Either the Colcloughs or Youngs built the house attached to the N of the tower house that is still occupied. The monument is situated on a level landscape c. 1km from the sea to the SE and SW with Crossfarnoge Point c. 1.4km to the SSW. However, until Ballyteige Lough, which was called Mablen Haven in the 17th century (Simington 1953, 132), was reclaimed in the late 19th century the castle stood on its E margin with the shore c. 150m to the W. It consists of a tower house (ext. dims c. 10.5m E-W; 7.8m N-S; total H 20.5m) of five storeys with an attic, surviving complete to the battlements and lookout platforms. The tower house is at the SE corner of a rectangular bawn with a gateway just to its W. The tower house has a base-batter and good quoins with a garderobe tower projecting E at the SE angle. The original entrance is through a pointed doorway (Wth 0.98m; H 1.92m) of dressed granite, towards the W end of the N wall, which is protected by machicolation and a murder hole. The lobby leads through a lintelled doorway that is now blocked to the ground floor (int. dims. 5.35m E-W; 4.05m N-S) which has five embrasures, three with surviving slit windows. There are two embrasures on the S wall and that on the W wall is widened into a modern, brick-lined entrance (Wth 1.28m; H 1.93m). From the lobby a mural stairs rises in the N wall, from which a lintelled doorway (Wth 0.8m; H 1.48), now blocked but covered by a murder-hole in the passage, leads to the first floor under the E-W barrel-vault that is lined with red brick. This floor was supported on corbels in the N and S walls, and its sole feature is an inserted window with a square hood moulding in the W wall. The mural stairs continues in the N wall and at second floor level turns into a passage in the E wall with a garderobe at its S end. The garderobe has single lights in the E and S walls and a trapdoor entrance in the floor to an oubliette or hidden chamber in the thickness of the vault below. From the passage a lintelled doorway (Wth 0.82m; H 1.86m) leads to the second floor (int. dims 6.22m E-W; 5.25m N-S), which is over the vault. An alcove at the E end of the N wall commands the murder-hole over the first floor doorway and a blocked embrasure at the W end of this wall may have commanded the murder-hole over the entrance lobby. There is a blocked fireplace at the centre of the N wall and embrasures in the W (blocked) and S walls, the latter with seats and a damaged window. The ceiling was supported on corbels in the N and S walls. From the N end of the passage in the E wall a newel stairs rises to the third floor, which is accessed by a lintelled doorway on the E wall. This floor has a blocked fireplace on the N wall and blocked window embrasures on the W, N, and S walls, the last two with seats. The ceiling is supported on corbels in the N and S walls. A doorway at the S end of the E wall leads to an inaccessible garderobe chamber, but a mural stairs rises southwards from the head of the newel stairs in the E wall to the fourth floor, which is entered by a lintelled doorway at the S end of the E wall. This floor has a simple window embrasure in the N, S and W walls with an inaccessible antechamber at the NE angle. From the stairs passage at this floor there is access to a small antechamber in the garderobe tower at the SE angle, and the mural stairs rises past it to emerge on the wall-walk towards the E end of the S side. There is an antechamber over the garderobe tower (int. dims 1.33m N-S; 1m E-W; H 2.35m) with a corbelled roof and a light in the N, E and S walls. From the head of the stairs there is access around the S, W and N wall-walks, with look-outs supported on pillars at the SW and NW angles, reached by projecting steps on the W parapet. The parapets survive well, but the stepped crenellations generally do not. A doorway at the E end of the N wall-walk enters a lintelled passage (int. dims 5.05m N-S; 0.85m E-W; H 1.75m) in the E wall with a doorway into the attic. The crease of the attic roof can be seen over the doorway, but the W end of the roof was hipped. Projecting steps on the inner face of the parapet at the E end of the N wall-walk rise to an enclosed and roofless passage in the E wall, which has a lintelled chamber (int. dims 2.1m E-W; 1.38m N-S; H 1.65m) at its S end incorporating the area of the garderobe tower. Projecting steps on the inner face of the E wall of the passage rise southwards to the highest look-out over the garderobe tower. The tower house is at the SE corner of the bawn (int. dims. 29.5m N-S; c. 22.5m E-W) defined by the wall with a wall-walk and musket-loops at S (H 7-8m; T 1m), and the base of the walls on the W (H 3.8m) and N (H 4m) sides. An 18th or 19th century house occupies much of the E side N of the tower house. The original entrance gateway (Wth c. 3m; H c. 3.4m) in the S wall is blocked but traces of wicker-centring are visible in its arch. The gateway is protected by machicolation just W of the tower house, but there is no access to the wall-walk from the tower house. Access to the bawn wall-walk is by the remnants of steps projecting on the inner face of the S bawn wall. There is a circular tower (int. diam. 2.3m; H c. 9m) of four floors with a base-batter and corbelling over the first floor, at the NW corner of the bawn. The featureless ground floor is accessed from the bawn, and the first floor, which must have been entered by a trapdoor in the floor, has two slit windows and a rebate

• WX052-018002 Bawn
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape c. 1km from the sea to the SE and SW, but until Ballyteige Lough, which was called Mablen Haven in the 17th century (Simington 1953, 132), was reclaimed in the late 19th century the castle stood on its E edge with the shore c. 150m to the W. The tower house (WX052-018001-) is at the SE corner of the bawn (int. dims. 29.5m N-S; c. 22.5m E-W) defined by the wall with a wall-walk and musket-loops at S (H 7-8m; T 1m), and the base of the walls on the W (H 3.8m) and N (H 4m) sides. An 18th or 19th century house occupies much of the E side N of the tower house. The original entrance gateway (Wth c. 3m; H c. 3.4m) in the S wall is blocked but traces of wicker-centring in the arch are visible. It is protected by machicolation just W of the tower house, but there is no access to the wall-walk from the tower house. Access to the bawn wall-walk is by the remnants of steps projecting on the inner face of the S bawn wall. There is a circular tower (int. diam. 2.3m; H c. 9m) of four floors with a base-batter and corbelling over first floor, at the NW corner of the bawn. The featureless ground floor is accessed from the bawn, and the first floor, which must have been entered by a trapdoor in the floor, has two slit windows and a rebate for the floor. The second floor over the corbelled vault is entered by a lintelled doorway (Wth 0.55m; H 1.42m) from the bawn wall-walk, and has two slit windows. A newel stairs rises inside the entrance doorway on the left to the third floor that has two slit windows and a rebate for the floor. The newel stairs continues to the destroyed battlements. There is a circular tower (ext. diam. 5.2m; H c. 7m) of at least three storeys with a base-batter at the NE corner of the bawn. It is entered now by an inserted pointed doorway at N. There is a circular stone-lined well within this tower with four steps leading down to it, and a newel stairs in the thickness of the wall at SE provides access to the upper floors, two of which can be distinguished, each with two slit windows. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 February, 2014

• WX052-018003 Gateway
  Description

  The original entrance gateway (Wth c. 3m; H c. 3.4m) to the bawn (WX052-018002-) in the S wall is blocked, but traces of wicker-centring in it is arch are visible. It is protected by machicolation just W of the tower house (WX052-018001-), but there is no access to the wall-walk from the tower house. Access to the bawn wall-walk and the machicoulis over the gateway is by the remnants of steps projecting on the inner face of the S bawn wall. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 February, 2014

• WX052-018004 Well
  Description

  There is a circular tower (ext. diam. 5.2m; H c. 7m) of at least three storeys with a base-batter at the NE corner of the bawn (WX052-018002-). It is entered now by an inserted pointed doorway at N. There is a circular stone-lined well within this tower with four steps leading down to it. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 February, 2014

Architectural heritage

• Ballyteige Castle, farm house, 1700–1798 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached four-bay two-storey double-pile over basement farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1798, on a rectangular plan; three-bay full-height rear (west) elevation. Sold, 1880. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Reroofed, ----. Vacated, 1987. Now disused. Replacement pitched double-pile (M-profile) artificial slate roof with ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on boxed eaves. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls. Round-headed door opening (north) with red brick header bond voussoirs framing concrete block infill. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing concrete block infill (ground floor) or six-over-six timber sash windows without horns (first floor). Square-headed window openings to rear (west) elevation with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash (basement) or replacement uPVC casement (remainder) windows. Interior including (ground floor): hall (north) 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 carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set in unkempt grounds.

• The Thatched Cottage, house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Chicken wire-covered hipped oat thatch roof with pressed iron ridge, red brick Running bond off-central dwarf chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and exposed wire stretchers to eaves having exposed wire scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having domed capping supporting timber gate.

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 Ballyteige, 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_2922 (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 Ballyteige with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballyteige · Baile Thaidhg

Area

713,137 m² (71.31 ha, 176.22 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, 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

Ballyteige Burrow, Beak, Crossfarnoge, Inish and Ballyteige Slob, Libgate, Newtown

Placenames

Ballyteige 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.