Ballymacushin

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacushin, from 901 m² to 200,525 m² (20.05 ha, 49.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballymacushin 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.

• 14 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230243

• 27 May 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, domesti

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220709

• 1 Aug 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CHANGE OF DESIGN AND SITE LAYOUT TO THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNI

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181048

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 Ballymacushin.

Recorded monuments

• WX048-024 Field system
  Description

  Situated on a gently rolling landscape. The faint outlines of a rectangular field system (dims c. 100m x. c. 50m) defined by faint single drain features is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP: BDJ 3) in an area of c. 4 ha. (10 acres). The enclosure (WX048-024002-) appears to be connected with it, although the possible rath (WX048-024001-) is not directly connected with it. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 January, 2014

• WX048-024001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a gently rolling landscape. The cropmark of a subcircular area (diam. c. 45m) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 3-5m) is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP: BDJ 3). It is not visible at ground level in a cereal crop. The rath site (WX048-024002-) is c. 200m to the E but elements of the field system (WX048-024----) are not directly connected with it. 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: 3 January 2014

• WX048-024002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a gently rolling landscape. The faint cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a faint fosse or ditch is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDJ 3). Elements of the field system (WX048-024----) appear to be connected with its perimeter. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. The rath (WX048-024001-) is c. 200m to the 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: 3 January 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3136 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballymacushin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballymacushin · Baile Mhic Oisín

Area

510,371 m² (51.04 ha, 126.12 acres)

Civil parish

Kilscoran, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Kilscoran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilscoran electoral division: 1,073 people in 388 households; 84% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Allenstown Little, Ballysampson, Bennettstown, Hillcastle, Lough, Shilmaine, Twelveacre

Placenames

Ballymacushin 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.