Ballinvack

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinvack, from 1,842 m² to 209,529 m² (20.95 ha, 51.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Ballinvack 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 Apr 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of the development of a detached domestic

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240424

• 21 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect extensions to existing dwelling house, to construct a new

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230698

• 31 May 2023N/a

  Permission to erect extensions to existing dwelling house, to construct a new

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230619

• 24 May 2023N/a

  Permission to erect extensions to existing dwelling house, to construct a new

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230572

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 Ballinvack.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinvack.

Architectural heritage

• Saint John's Church (Kilnamanagh), church/chapel, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay double-height Ecclesiastical Commissioners' Church of Ireland church, built 1864, on a rectangular plan comprising four-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (east) with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch (south-west). Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof to porch with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables on cut-granite "Cavetto" kneelers including cut-granite coping to gable to entrance (west) front on cut-granite "Cavetto" kneelers with buttressed gabled bellcote to apex framing cast-bronze bell, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite dentil consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked Knockavocka stone walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on plinth with stepped buttresses including diagonal stepped buttresses to corners having cut-granite coping. Lancet window openings with lancet window openings in bipartite arrangement (east), lichen-covered cut-granite chamfered sill course, and hammered granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Lancet "Trinity Window" to chancel (east) with lichen-covered cut-granite chamfered sill course, hammered granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window opening to entrance (west) front with cut-granite Y-mullion, and hammered granite block-and-start surround having chamfered rebated reveals with hood moulding over framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass pierced quatrefoils. Full-height interior open into roof with cut-granite baptismal font (west) on an octagonal plan, central aisle between timber pews, exposed timber roof construction on cut-granite corbels with wind braced rafters to ceiling on carved timber cornice, gothic-style timber panelled pulpit on an octagonal plan with gothic-style memorial lectern (1898), and pointed-arch chancel arch framing stepped dais to chancel (east) with communion railing centred on altar below stained glass Memorial "Trinity Window" (1865). Set in landscaped grounds with granite ashlar chamfered piers to perimeter having lichen-covered cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed cast-iron double gates.

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 10 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

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

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

Name

Ballinvack · Baile an Bhacaigh

Area

469,497 m² (46.95 ha, 116.02 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnamanagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen North

Electoral division

Wells, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Wells electoral division: 887 people in 295 households; 83% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahown, Knockadilly, Knockskemolin, Raheennaskeagh Lower, Wells, Wellshill

Placenames

Ballinvack 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.