Ballyshelin

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyshelin, from 64 m² to 112,383 m² (11.24 ha, 27.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Ballyshelin 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.

• 29 Aug 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission is sought for the proposed construction of a fully serviced

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241041

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 Ballyshelin.

Recorded monuments

• WX041-027 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  References to a castle at Ballyshelin date with certainty from the Civil Survey (1654-6) when a 'slate house' and 360 acres were the property of Philip Hore, together with 360 acres at Harveystown (Simington 1953, 98). It is depicted faintly as a rectangular structure (dims c. 10m E-W; c. 5m N-S) on the 1839 Ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on level ground at the SW base of Forth Mountain. A slightly raised oval area (dims. 18m E-W; 11m N-S) may be the site. Immediately to the W is a N-S sunken track or fosse (L 150m; Wth 4-8m). There was exposed stonework visible at the N end of this feature in 1988. All the features have eroded further through ploughing. 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: 19 March, 2013

• WX041-027001 Road - hollow-way
  Description

  Situated on level ground at the SW base of Forth Mountain. Immediately to the W of the castle (WX041-027----) is a N-S sunken track or fosse (L 150m; Wth 4-8m). There was exposed stonework visible at the N end of this feature in 1988. All the features have eroded further through ploughing. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 March, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity, church/chapel, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three- or four-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, dated 1838, on a rectangular plan. "Improved", pre-1863, producing present composition. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables including concrete coping to gable to entrance (south) front with granite ashlar buttressed gabled bellcote to apex framing embossed cast-bronze bell, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined battered walls on rendered "bas-relief" plinth with roughcast-panelled rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Lancet window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered flush surrounds framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass "lozenges". Pointed-arch opposing door openings (south) with rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement fittings. Full-height interior with carpeted central aisle between replacement timber pews, grouped timber stations between stained glass windows (----), carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (north) reordered, ----, with cut-veined white marble Gothic-style high altar, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on "Acanthus"-detailed ceiling roses. 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 Ballyshelin, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyshelin.

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

Name

Ballyshelin · Baile Sioláin

Area

836,764 m² (83.68 ha, 206.77 acres)

Civil parish

Taghmon, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere West

Electoral division

Aughwilliam, the unit of the census

Census 2022

587 people lived in 204 households in the Aughwilliam electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Durra Little, Shelmaliere Commons, Tincurra, Tracystown East

Placenames

Ballyshelin 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.