Ballywilliam
Ballywilliam is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcavan, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Fhéilim.
Parcel 4907289
- Area
- 1,526 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 230 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballywilliam
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 117 ha
- 289 acres
- Land parcels
- 70
- registered freehold, median 2,132 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballywilliam, from 6 m² to 239,128 m² (23.91 ha, 59.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballywilliam 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a two-storey extension to the rear of existing two storey
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251532
25 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to build an agricultural storage shed and all associated
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250920
4 Nov 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to demolish partially constructed dwelling and domestic garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241361
13 Sept 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20231096
18 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a two-storey dwelling with services, domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221380
22 Mar 2022Refused
Permission to erect a two-storey dwelling with services, domestic garage and
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220373
27 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a two-storey dwelling with services, domestic garage and anc
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211510
12 Jul 2021Refused
Permission for the conversion of an attic space to habitable space over a dwelli
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211100
1 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of A) a side and rear extension, B) a porch
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210474
6 Nov 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191492
11 Oct 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191381
9 Sept 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191249
13 Mar 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS TO EXISTING DETACHED SINGLE STOREY
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190315
7 Apr 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AS A CHANGE OF
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170421
17 Feb 2017Granted (unconditional)
ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20120452
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballywilliam.
Recorded monuments
- WX007-093 Enclosure
Description
Located at the W edge of a plateau. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 55m NE-SW) defined by the faint shadow of a fosse is only visible N-S-W on iMAPs (2022). The perimeter is incorporated in a field bank W-N, and the enclosure was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from iMAPs (2022) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 June 2023
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballywilliam.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballywilliam, about 1 in 10 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 Ballywilliam.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Ballywilliam, Gorey5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballywilliam · Baile Fhéilim
- Area
- 1,170,143 m² (117.01 ha, 289.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcavan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Ballynestragh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,381 people lived in 418 households in the Ballynestragh electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinglin, Ballinglinbeg, Ballydermot, Ballylacy, Cullenoge, Kilcavan Upper, Parkbaun, Tinnock Lower, Toberduff
- Placenames
- Ballywilliam 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.