Ballinteskin
Townland in the civil parish of Whitechurch, barony of Shelburne, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile an tSeiscinn
- Area
- 142.6 ha
- 352 acres
- Land parcels
- 74
- registered freehold, median 7,402 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinteskin, from 186 m² to 144,769 m² (14.48 ha, 35.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballinteskin 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
15 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed demolition of existing unfinished house structure
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251306
13 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an extension & renovations of an old farmhouse
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231495
17 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the installation of a new polishing filter to serve an existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211992
17 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together with all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211991
28 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a ground floor extension to the side and rear
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211011
13 May 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of a storage shed as built to the rear of home
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210730
27 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the alterations to existing dwelling and extension to side and re
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201246
30 Jan 2017Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170079
29 Jun 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF KITCHEN EXTENSION
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160743
20 May 2016N/a
RETENTION OF KITCHEN EXTENSION
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160539
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 Ballinteskin.
Recorded monuments
- WX034-030 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated at the summit of the E end of an E-W ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 36m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by a degraded earthen bank (Wth 1.5-2.3m; int. H 0.3-0.8m; ext. H 0.4-0.8m) with internal and external stone-facing. There is no visible fosse and the entrance cannot be determined. A field bank circumvents the perimeter ESE-WSW at distance of 5m. 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: 13 September, 2012
- WX034-032 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on the lower NW-facing foothills of Slievecoiltia, at the point where the steep slope meets a gentler incline. This is an oval overgrown area (dims. c. 40m NW-SE; c. 35m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank best preserved E-S-W (at S: Wth 6m; int. H 1.6m; ext. H 2m), on the uphill side. There is an external fosse, best preserved E-S-W (at S: Wth of top 6.5m; Wth of base 2m; ext. D 1.4m). The bank is little more than a scarp W-N-E (at N: Wth 4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2.2m), and the fosse becomes a stream at N. There is an entrance (Wth 4m) and causeway at S. Rath (WX034-033----) is c. 260m to the E but c. 50m higher in elevation. 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: 13 September, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinteskin.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinteskin.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Ballinteskin, New Ross5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballinteskin · Baile an tSeiscinn
- Area
- 1,425,994 m² (142.6 ha, 352.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Whitechurch, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelburne
- Electoral division
- Oldcourt, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Oldcourt electoral division: 741 people in 243 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykelly, Ballyverroge, Oldcourt, Slaght, Slievecoiltia Commons
- Placenames
- Ballinteskin 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.