Ballyellin

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyellin, from 18 m² to 214,771 m² (21.48 ha, 53.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Ballyellin 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.

• 14 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development of this site at Circle K M11 Gorey Service Station

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250183

• 25 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)

  1) Permission for retention of existing calf sheds and 2) Permission to construc

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210998

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 Ballyellin.

Recorded monuments

• WX003-047001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated in a slight fold on a W-facing slope, with the N-S Clonough River c. 400m to the W. It was excavated (E3509) as site 51 during 2005 in advance of the building of the N11 Arklow - Gorey bypass. A horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt stone (dims. 6m N-S; 3.1m E-WT 0.2m) overlay a rectangular trough (dims. 3.14m E-W; 2.15m; D 0.1m). There was a pit (dims. 0.7m x 0.6m; D 0.2m) and a number of tree-holes pre-dating the fulacht fia were also recorded as well as a palaeo-channel (Wth 0.5m; D 0.5m; L 7m) of a stream. There is a cluster of features (WX003-047002-) c. 20m to the SW and fulacht fia (WX003-048----) is c. 120m to the ENE. (Martin 2008, 395-6) Compiled by: Michael Moore Dat of upload: 14 February, 2012

• WX003-047002 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Situated in a slight fold on a W-facing slope, with the N-S Clonough River c. 400m to the W. It was excavated (E3509) as a part of site 51 during 2005 in advance of the building of the N11 Arklow - Gorey bypass. A concentrated area (diam. c. 2.5m) produced a cluster of 49 stake-holes, some of which were set in the uppper layers of two pits (dims. 1.37m x 1.2m; D 0.35m; 2.3m x 1.2m; D 0.45m). Fulacht fia (WX003-047001-) is c. 20m to the NE and fulacht fia (WX003-048----) is c. 140m to the ENE. (Martin 2008, 395-6) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 February, 2012

• WX003-048 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated in a slight fold on a W-facing slope, with the N-S Clonough River c. 600m to the W. It was excavated (E3510) as site 52 during 2005 in advance of the building of the N11 Arklow - Gorey bypass. An irregularly-shaped mound of burnt stone (dims. 4.6m x 2.7m; T 0.2m) overlay a rectangular trough (dims. 2.2m N-S; 0.7m E-W; D 0.2m). Just to the SE there was a pit (dims. 1.98m x 0.7m; D 0.38m) that may have been another trough or a tree-bole. There was also evidence of the palaeo-channel (Wth 4-5m; D 0.4m) of a stream. Fulacht fia (WX003-047001-) and the excavated features (WX003-047002-) are c. 120m to the WSW, and the enclosure (WX003-049----) excavated during 2010 is c. 40m to the SE. (Martin 2008, 396) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 February, 2013

• WX003-049 Structure
  Description

  Archaeological testing (E4128) during 2010 on an extensive area (dims c. 560m ENE-WSW; c. 150m NW-SE at NE to c. 290m NNW-SSE at SW) N of the M11 motorway at Ballyellin produced no archaeological material, but testing under the same licence on a D-shaped area (dims c. 220m NE-SW; c. 180m NW-SE) S of the motorway identified a rectangular structure as well as some prehistoric features (WX003-050----) that are c. 95m further S. The structure, known as Ballyellin 1, was completely excavated (E4146) in August 2010. The fulacht fia (WX003-048----) that was excavated in 2005 is c. 40m to the NW. The rectangular structure (int. dims 7.4m NW-SE; 6.1m NE-SW) was defined by a slot-trench (Wth 0.2-0.5m; D 0.15-0.38m) on all sides except the NW where it may have been truncated by a NE-SW field drain or it may have been open and the trenches were drains. Charcoal from the slot-trench/drain produced a C14 date of cal. AD 890-1030. There were some small pits within and outside the structure to the NE, some of which contained metal slag from smithing, but one pit (dims 0.9m x 0.6m; D 0.48m) produced a C14 date of 1730-1520 cal. BC and was anomalous to the rest of the structure. The source of the smithing was outside the structure and not recovered. About 3m S of the structure was an E-W gully that might be a natural channel. (McLoughlin and Lynch 2010, 6-7; McLoughlin 2011, 6-13; McLoughlin 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 February, 2013

• WX003-050 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Archaeological testing (E4128) during 2010 on a D-shaped area (dims c. 220m NE-SW; c. 180m NW-SE) S of the N11 motorway at Ballyellin identified some prehistoric features as well as a rectangular structure (WX003-049----) that is c. 95m further N. This area, known as Ballyellin 2, was completely excavated (E4147) in August 2010. Six pits (dims c. 07m x 0.4m; D 0.1m 2.3m x 0.8m; D 0.2m) contained clays with elements of heat-shattered stone, charcoal, flint, burnt bone and pottery. Two isolated pits produced a flint flake and a C14 date of cal. BC 1770-1610, and 25 flints in toal were recovered. However, the rest of the features are 12-14th century in date, confirmed by 95 sherds of Leinster cooking ware and a C14 date of cal. AD 1280-1400. One pit was incorporated with a N-S gully (Wth c. 0.45m; D c. 0.2m; L 7.5m) which may have connected with an E-W gully (Wth 0.5-0.7m; D 0.05-02m) at its N end, but the junction of the two was cut by a NW-SE ditch (Wth 1.8m; D 0.5m) that produced a polished stone axehead in its upper fill. (McLoughlin and Lynch 2010, 7; McLoughlin 2010, 6-13; McLoughlin 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 February, 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyellin.

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 Ballyellin, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyellin · Baile Uí Aoláin

Area

471,977 m² (47.2 ha, 116.63 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgorman, and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Ballylarkin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

938 people lived in 311 households in the Ballylarkin electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyellin Lower, Ballyellin Upper, Clonough

Placenames

Ballyellin 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.