Ballyconor Big

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyconor Big, from 77 m² to 216,993 m² (21.7 ha, 53.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• S5Community & Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Wexford County Development Plan 2022-2028, Wexford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 18 Feb 2020Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTING OF RETENT

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200197

• 18 Nov 2019Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION OF AN EXTENSION TOT HE SIDE AND REAR OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND FOR RETEN

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191536

• 10 Sept 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED MODERNISATION OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTI

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181235

• 8 Nov 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED MODERNISATION OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTI

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171439

• 4 Mar 2016Granted (unconditional)

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20110584

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 Ballyconor Big.

Recorded monuments

• WX048-033001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Located on a level landscape with a small N-S stream c. 130m to the W. Kilrothan (Kilrane) was held for a quarter of a knight’s fee by Peter Keteinge in 1425 from the Valence property (Brooks 1950, 188-9). It is not mentioned in earlier feoderies, which suggests it is a late enfeoffment. Keteinge was one of the Keatings of Kilcowanmore (WX031-009----) and Slieve Coillte, but by the 16th century Staffords dominated Kilrane (Jeffrey 1979, 4-5). The tower house pre-dated the fortified house (WX048-033003-), which was built in 1570 by Dionisius Stafford and his second wife Katherine Synnott of Ballygerry (WX048-017----), according to the Latin inscription of a memorial stone now lost. His first wife was Joan Browne of Mulrankin (WX047-031----) (Hore 1925, 15-6; Browne 1937). In 1641 John Stafford owned 166 acres at Ballyconor and 186 acres in Kilrane parish at Harristown and Hilltown (Simmington 1953, 306). The rectangular tower house (ext. dims 7.1m E-W; 6.95m N-S) survives to the second floor (H 6-8 m) with a base-batter and good quoins. All the dressed stone is granite. The pointed entrance doorway (Wth 0.92m; H 1.61) towards the W end of the N side is protected by a portcullis, and gives access through a lobby lacking a murder-hole to the ground floor chamber (int. dims 5m E-W; 3.55m N-S). The entrance from the lobby is destroyed but the ground floor has central embrasures on the E, S and W walls. In addition there is a chamber with a loop on the E wall at the NE angle and another with a loop in the S wall at the SE angle. Each embrasure has two long lateral spy-holes that emerge on the outer face of the walls. The ceiling was supported on two corbels in the N and S walls. A destroyed doorway from the lobby leads to the mural stairs in the N wall, which has two loops in its outer wall and a light at the E end, on the landing outside the lintelled doorway (Wth 0.84m; H 1.54m) to the first floor under the E-W vault. This floor has embrasures with rectangular windows in the E (Wth 0.17m; H 0.72m) and W (Wth 0.16m; H 0.82m) walls. There are two cupboards in the S wall and another at the S end of the W wall. An ante-chamber at the NW angle controlled the portcullis and has a rectangular window (Wth 0.45m; H 0.54m), modified with brick, in the W wall. From the landing outside the first floor doorway the stairs becomes a newel stairs and rises to the second floor over the vault and higher floors but the walls were reduced to this level. The doorway to the second floor is destroyed, but a large opening (Wth 1.09m; H 1.88m) with some dressed stone on the E wall may have led from the stairs to an attached building, which is entirely gone. The second floor has a window in the W wall, a window at the SW angle and one or more loops at the SE angle. There is a blocked window in the E wall and there may have been more loops at the NW angle. The 16th century house (WX048-033003-) is attached to the N of the tower house, but only the W wall and N gable survive. The church of St Nicholas (WX048-033002-) is on N side of a possible bawn (WX048-033005-) (int. dims 34m E-W; 24m N-S) defined on the E side by the tower house and the 16th century house, at N by the church, and at W by the remains of stone wall (H 1m) that has a blocked embrasure. 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: 2 January 2014

• WX048-033002 Chapel
  Description

  Synnott writing c. 1680 lists a ruined chapel dedicated to St Nicholas at Ballyconnor (Hore, 1862, 69; 1921, 60). This is an estate chapel associated with the tower house (WX048-033001-) and it is situated on a level landscape with a small N-S stream c. 110m to the W. An outhouse attached to the N of the 16th century house (WX048-033003-) is a rectangular building (ext. dims. 9.9m E- W; 5.45m N-S; int. dims 7.25m E-W; 4.1m N-S) with walls (T 0.7m) that have conglomerate quoins. It is now roofed with corrugated iron but has a round headed doorway (Wth 0.87m; H 1.79m) of dressed granite with a chamfer and an internal hanging-eye towards the W end of the S wall. There are two inserted windows in the N wall, one in the S and one in the E. There is a blocked fireplace in the W wall. The chapel is on the N side of a possible bawn (WX048-033005-). 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: 2 January 2014

• WX048-033003 House - 16th century
  Description

  Located on a level landscape with a small N-S stream c. 130m to the W. The house was built in 1570 by Dionisius Stafford and his second wife Katherine Synnott of Ballygerry (WX048-017----), according to the Latin inscription of a memorial stone now lost. His first wife was Joan Browne of Mulrankin (WX047-031----) (Hore 1925, 15-6; Browne 1937). The house was largely pulled down c. 1860 (Browne 1937), and is abutting the N side of the tower house (WX048-033001-). It is a rectangular building (int. dims 16.5m N-S; 6m E-W) now reduced to one storey, but only the W wall and the N gable survive, with a blocked chimney-breast (Wth 3.5m) in the gable. One window (Wth 1.47m; H 1.58m) of four ogee-headed lights with the mullions removed, a doorway (Wth 0.93m) and one musket-loop in the W wall are original. Together with the tower house (WX048-033001-) it could form the E side of a bawn (WX048-033005-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 January, 2014

• WX048-033004 Memorial stone
  Description

  A memorial stone (dims c. 0.6m x c. 0.45m) commemorating the building of the house at Ballyconor Big (WX048-033002-) by Dionisius Stafford and his second wife Katerina Synnott of Ballygerry (WX048-017----) in 1570 (Hore 1925, 15-6) was removed from a position over the door of that house c. 1860. It was kept at Ballyconor until it was moved to Baldwinstown Castle in 1937 (Brown 1937). A shield on the stone depicts a swan chained at the neck and by one foot. The chained and crowned swan is the ancient emblem of Buckinghamshire in England, but no connection with this county can be established. See this web-page accessed on 20 February, 2014 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Buckinghamshire The stone was not noticed at Baldwinstown (WX047-022003-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 January, 2014 Amended: 20 February, 2014

• WX048-033005 Bawn
  Description

  This is located on a level landscape with a small N-S stream c. 90m to the W. The tower house (WX048-033001-) and 16th century house (WX048-033002-) form the E side of a rectangular area (int. dims 34m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by the chapel (WX048-033002-) and outhouses at N and the remains of a wall (H 1m) that has a blocked embrasure at W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 January, 2014

• WX048-145 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a fairly level landscape with a small N-S stream c. 200m to the W. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) is visible on the E side of a N-S field bank on digital aerial photographs (WX048-125_1, _2) taken in July, 2006. It is defined by a single fosse feature that may have an entrance at NE. The tower house (WX048-033001-) is c. 200m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 January, 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyconor Big, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Ballyconor Big · Baile Uí Chonchúir

Area

303,041 m² (30.3 ha, 74.88 acres)

Civil parish

Kilrane, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

St. Helen's, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,719 people lived in 1,005 households in the St. Helen's electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyell Big, Ballyell Little, Churchtown, Harristown, Tenacre

Placenames

Ballyconor Big 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.