Ballyseskin

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyseskin, from 19 m² to 232,698 m² (23.27 ha, 57.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Ballyseskin 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.

• 18 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251496

• 10 Jun 2025Refused

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, detached garage,

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250709

• 22 May 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development of proposed two-storey replacement dwelling

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240578

• 14 Feb 2024Refused

  Permission for development of proposed two-storey replacement

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240148

• 10 Feb 2023Refused

  Permission for the proposed construction of a new vehicular entrance

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230128

• 27 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house & garage

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211377

• 28 Apr 2021N/a

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house & garage

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210637

• 30 Aug 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF NEW TWO

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191221

• 6 Dec 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO AN EXISTIN

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181683

• 12 Jul 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO WIDENING AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE, AND FOR A NEW ACCESS L

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170907

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 Ballyseskin.

Recorded monuments

• WX047-042 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a broad, low hill. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature and bisected by a NW-SE field bank is visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: AVK 72; AVK 74) taken in July 1968. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Archaeological testing (21E0784) by M. McCarthy immediately to the S at the closest point produced no related material (excavations.ie 2021:229). 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: 14 October, 2013 Amended: 10 November 2022

• WX047-043 Windmill
  Description

  Situated on a broad, low hill. It is marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a windmill. A mill at Ballyseskin was owned by George Chevers in 1640 (Simington 1943, 134, 163), but it is not known if it was a windmill. This is a cylindrical tower of three storeys (ext. diam. 4.7m; int. diam. 2.8m) with opposing doorways at E (Wth 0.67m; H 1.83m) and W (Wth 0.65m; H 1.79m), surviving complete to a height of c. 6.4m. A series of steps projects from the inner face of the wall at S, rising from inside the E doorway. The inner face of the wall is damaged, but the first floor, which had no openings, was supported on a ledge, and there are 3 slit windows on the second floor. The letters ‘I’ and ‘ID’ are incised on the S side of the W door frame, and the date 174 (?9) is inscribed on a stone over the E doorway. There are traces of an enclosure (diam. c. 25m) around it visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP: AVK 72). On the photograph it is defined by a single fosse-like feature, which may represent the channel created by a pole used to turn the cap. 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: 14 October, 2013

• WX052-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) defined by a narrow but continuous fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP, AVK 75; ASIAP (3) 26-29). It is not visible at ground level. Rath (WX052-045----) is c. 60m to the NNW, and enclosure (WX052-046----) is c. 110m to the SE. 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

• WX052-006 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  References to the Cheevers of Ballyseskin date from the mid 14th century and Harold Cheevers held 170 acres at Ballyseskin from Brown of Mulrankin (WX047-031----) in 1627 (Jeffrey 1979, 60-1). Reference to the castle date only from the Civil Survey (1654-6) where George Cheevers is recorded as owning 120 acres at Ballyseskin in 1640 together with the castle and mill (Simington 1953, 134, 163). In 1666 Ballyseskin was confirmed to Col. Bunbury, who had served with Cromwell in Ireland (Kehoe 1984-5, 27). The last remains of the castle fell in 1886 (ibid.). There are no visible remains of a castle at ground level at Ballyseskin House. 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

• WX052-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape. The faint cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) defined by a slight fosse feature is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP: AVK 75) from July 1969. It is also visible on digital aerial photographs (WX047-044_1 to _4) from 2006, but the perimeter SW-N is not present. Rath (WX052-005----) is c. 60m to the SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 18 February, 2014

• WX052-046 Enclosure
  Description

  Indicated as a small tree-ring on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is situated on a level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by a continuous fosse feature is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP: AVK 75) from July 1969. Rath (WX052-005----) is c. 110m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 February, 2014.

Architectural heritage

• Mill (wind), 1745–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay three-stage cylindrical windmill tower, dated 1749, on a circular plan. In use, 1840. In ruins, 1903. Roof now missing. Coursed rubble stone walls retaining sections of lime rendered or roughcast surface finish. Square-headed opposing door openings with rough hewn rubble stone lintels. Square-headed window openings (upper stages) with rough hewn rubble stone lintels. Interior in ruins. Set in relandscaped grounds.

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 Ballyseskin, 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_2956 (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 Ballyseskin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballyseskin · Baile Seiscinn

Area

893,438 m² (89.34 ha, 220.77 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

Ballask, Gallagh, Hill, Newtown, Soughane, Tullabards Great

Placenames

Ballyseskin 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.