Ballymacane

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacane, from 668 m² to 230,606 m² (23.06 ha, 56.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Ballymacane 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.

• 22 May 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of 4 no. 2 storey 4 bedroom detached

  Permission, 4 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230559

• 12 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of extension to existing Farm yard complex

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211293

• 8 Oct 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION FOR MODIFICATIONS CARRIED OUT TO DWELLING HOUSE & PERMI

  Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20191368

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 Ballymacane.

Recorded monuments

• WX053-005001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Makarne was granted by Richard, the son of Alan de St. Florence, to the Cistercian abbey of Duiske (Graiguenamanagh) c. 1260, and Hore (1949, 35) identified this with Ballymacane, although this is unlikely (Brooks 1950, 89). References to the Staffords of Ballymacane date from the mid-13th century when Robert de Stafford held half of Ballymakaterin by a quarter a knight’s fee in 1247 from the Valance estate, the other half being held by William de Akevill. In 1324 Hamund de Stafford held the manor of Balymaclaherne by three quarters of a fee, and c. 1425 Ballymakhehrn was held by the heir of Dionysius Stafford (ibid. 119-20). According to the Book of Survey and Distribution (1660s) Nicholas Stafford owned 182 acres at Ballymacane in 1640, and 520 acres elsewhere in Tacumshin parish (Simington 1953, 304-05). Nicholas Stafford, with 16 dependents was listed for transplantation in 1653 (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 502). By the Act of Settlement (1666) 216 acres at an enlarged Ballymacane was bestowed on Thomas Barrington as part of a total package of 615 acres, largely in Tacumshin parish. The castle is depicted as a large structure, probably with a bawn on the Down Survey (1656-8) map of Forth barony. The castle was removed c. 1750 (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 595), and there are no visible remains of a structure at ground level. The field W of the house is said to be cobbled, and it may be the site of a bawn. There is an inscribed stone (dims 0.56m x 0.53m T 0.3m) preserved at the site bearing the date 1612 and the initials IS, DS and RS, which refer to John, Dionysius and Richard Stafford. A surviving photograph shows the ruin of a four-bay, two storey house and attic, which might have dated to the early 17th century. (Hore 1949, 35-40) See the attached section from the Down Survey barony map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725). 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: 21 March, 2014

• WX053-005002 Inscribed stone
  Description

  There is an inscribed stone (dims 0.56m x 0.53m; T 0.3m) preserved at the site of Ballymacane castle (WX053-005001-) bearing the date 1612 and initials IS, DS and RS, which refer to John, Dionysius and Richard Stafford. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 March, 2014

• WX053-005003 Bawn
  Description

  Ballymacane castle (WX053-005001-) is depicted on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map of Forth as if it had an enclosure or bawn, and the small field (dims c. 25m NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE) W of the house is said to be cobbled and may be the site of the bawn. For the Down Survey barony map see this web-page accessed on 25 February, 2014 http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Forth&c=Wexford Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 March, 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballymacane, 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 Ballymacane.

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

Name

Ballymacane · Baile Mhic Eichiairn

Area

456,017 m² (45.6 ha, 112.68 acres)

Civil parish

Tacumshin, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Tacumshin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

507 people lived in 204 households in the Tacumshin electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cotts, Faythe, Fence, Millknock, Ringknock

Placenames

Ballymacane 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.