Ballyhack

148 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhack, from 6 m² to 467,092 m² (46.71 ha, 115.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Ballyhack 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.

• 16 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for A) the conversion of the existing garage into two no. bedrooms

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250881

• 27 Jun 2025N/a

  Permission for retention of the following: A) the conversion of existing garage

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250796

• 3 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect an agricultural storage shed and all associated

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241497

• 1 Nov 2024N/a

  Permission to erect a storage shed and all associated ancillary site and

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241356

• 24 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention for internal alterations for the conversion of part

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241151

• 1 Aug 2024Refused

  Permission to erect an agricultural storage shed and all associated

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240917

• 23 Jul 2024N/a

  Permission to erect an agricultural storage shed and all associated

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240882

• 24 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of outdoor seating area, covered patio area, rear cover

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231267

• 25 Sept 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the demolition of the existing outhouse building and for the

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231148

• 15 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission to demolish existing dwelling and replace it with a fully serviced

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221508

• 20 Jun 2022Refused

  Permission for the construction of a single storey dwelling house, domestic

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220813

• 7 Jul 2021Refused

  Permission to construct a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, domesti

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211081

• 18 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a dwelling house extension

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210386

• 25 Feb 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of velux roof lights and for a porch extension to

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210257

• 15 Feb 2021N/a

  Permission for Retention of velux roof lights and for a porch extension to the

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210201

• 15 Feb 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of extensions and alterations to the existing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210203

• 5 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling and associated work

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201135

• 7 Feb 2020Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DW

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200140

• 21 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF (A) A NEW WASTEWATER

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190876

• 7 Jun 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF (A) A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190786

• 16 May 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOC

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180652

• 30 Apr 2018N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180565

• 1 Feb 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE RETENTION OF AN EXISTING DWELLINGHOUSE AND PLANNING PERMISSIO

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180107

• 10 Nov 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A STANDALONE EXTENSION COMPRISING OF 1 N

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171456

• 26 Jul 2017Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170990

The 25 most recent of 29 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhack 000695

Recorded monuments

• WX044-009001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  The church of Balishauc was confirmed to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem in 1212, and this name has been mistakenly interpreted as Ballyhack (Hore 1900-11, vol. 3, 241-50; Moore 1996, 168, No. 1503), but Balishauc is now identified as Ballyhoge parish in Shelmaliere and Bantry baronies (Colfer 2002, 202-05). Ballyhack was within the Cistercian estate of Dunbrody Abbey (WX039-030001-) and would have been built in the 15th century to protect its fishing community and the ferry with Passage East. At the Suppression in 1541 Dunbrody abbey held nine tenements at Ballyhack (Hore 1900-11, vol. 3, 126). The tower house is a National Monument (Harbison 1970, 245), and is open to the public from 22 June to 28 Aug. See this website accessed on 13 June 2013: http://www.heritageireland.ie/en/ballyhackcastle/ The tower house is located in a short steep-sided valley (L c. 400m NE-SW) that opens out to the Barrow/Nore/Suir estuary at a narrow point opposite Passage East (WA018-009----), Co. Waterford, which is c. 700m to the S. The dressed stone throughout is Old Red Sandstone conglomerate. This is a tower house (ext. dims. 10.75m NW-SE; 9.85m NE-SW) of five storeys surviving to the wall walk with good quoins and evidence of a base-batter. A rectangular doorway, protected by machicolation at the fourth floor, a yett, and a murder hole in the lobby, is towards the W end of the SW wall. The lobby leads through a pointed doorway (Wth 1.6m) to the ground floor (int. dims 6m NW-SE; 4.77m NE-SW), which has a slit window in an embrasure on every wall except the SE. The mural stairs in the SW wall lead to a passage in the SE wall. A lintelled doorway from the centre of the passage leads to the first floor under the NW-SE vault, which has one window in the NW wall. The floor is supported on corbels in the NE and SW walls, and there is a garderobe at the N angle which is accessed by a passage in the NE wall. Mid seventeenth-century pottery was found in the pit of this garderobe, indicating a date for the abandonment of the castle (Fanning 1975). There is an oubliette or hidden chamber in the masonry of the vault in the NE wall, entered from the floor above, but this is now blocked. The stairs rise in the SE wall where a pointed doorway at the E angle provides access to the second floor over the vault. This floor has a large destroyed window with seats in the SW wall placed over the main entrance doorway, which also commands the murder-hole over the lobby. This wall has a fireplace and light to the E of the window with seats. There is a rectangular window with seats in the NW wall and two chambers in the NE wall, one a garderobe at the N angle, the other with blocked access to the oubliette. There is a single light in the SE wall. The ceilings of the second to fifth floors are supported on corbels in the NE and SW walls. A newel stairs at the E angle leads to the third and fourth floors, but it is now blocked. A pointed doorway leads from the stairs to the third floor, which has an ope with a pointed rear-arch, a destroyed window, a fireplace, and a two-light ogee-headed window in the SW wall. There is a single ogee-headed window in the NW wall. There are three chambers, in the thickness of the NE wall. The most northerly is a garderobe, the central may be a sacristy, and the E chamber is a chapel with a piscina, aumbry, and altar shelf. The chapel is open to the rest of the floor, and has a rounded arch over it, but it is now inaccessible. The fourth floor commands the machicolation over the main entrance in the SW wall and there are two two-light windows in this wall, one with seats and ogee-headed lights. There are single-light ogee-headed windows in the NW and NE walls. This floor also has a small chamber at the E angle, while the destroyed mural stairs continue in the SE wall to emerge on the destroyed battlements at the S angle where the corbels of a machicolation survive. Archaeological monitoring (03E1630) immediately outside the entrance doorway identified the foundations of a cottage and its drains that could be dated to the 17th or 18th century through finds of Staffordshire slipware, clay-pipe fragments and glass (Reid 2006). This is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 516. 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 revision: 17 June 2013

• WX044-018001 Church
  Description

  Located at the top of a steep cliff (H c. 30-40m) overlooking the estuary of the Barrow/Nore/Suir, which is to the S. This is the site of a church serving the village of Ballyhack and its castle (WX044-009001-) c. 600m to the NW. According to a Visitation by Thomas Ram, the Protestant bishop of Ferns, in 1615 the churches of St. James and Killesk were impropriate to Dunbrody, but St. James’ was in good repair (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 269). The church is described as in ruins in the Civil Survey (1654-6) (Simington 1953, 194). However, it became the Church of Ireland parish church of St James and Dunbrody, which was described as small and without a tower or steeple that had been repaired by the Ecclesiastic Commissioners in the 1830s (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 28). It does not survive within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 90m E-W; c. 40m N-S) defined by masonry walls. The stone head (WX044-033001-) and small stone effigy (WX44-033002-), now in Arthurstown village c. 500m to the E, probably came from this church, and the granite trough in the graveyard could have been a sarcophagus for the effigy. 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: 17 June 2013 Amended: 2 Sep. 2013, 9 Sep. 2020

• WX044-018002 Graveyard
  Description

  Located at the top of a steep cliff (H c. 30-40m) overlooking the estuary of the Barrow/Nore/Suir, which is to the S. The church of St James and Dunbrody (WX044-018001-) was within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 90m E-W; c. 40m N-S) defined by masonry walls. Some grave-markers are decorated with plain latin crosses in relief. A granite trough (ext. dims 1m x 0.63m; H 0.25m; int. dims 0.82m x 0.44m; D 0.16m) is coffin-shaped and child-sized, and might have been closed by the stone effigy (WX44-033002-) now in Arthurstown village c. 500m to the E. The stone head (WX044-033001-) now in the village also probably came from this church. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 June, 2013 Amended: 9 September 2020

• WX044-018003 Stone trough
  Description

  Inside the gate of the graveyard (WX044-018002-) is a granite trough (ext. dims 1m x 0.63m; H 0.25m; int. dims 0.82m x 0.44m; D 0.16m) which is coffin-shaped and child-sized, and might have been closed by the stone effigy (WX44-033002-) now in Arthurstown village c. 500m to the E. Unlike most sarcophagi it does not have drain-holes. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 September 2020

• WX044-031 Millstone quarry
  Description

  Situated on top of cliffs (H c. 30-40m) down to the estuary of the Barrow/Nore/Suir, which is immediately to the SW. The medieval settlement on Great Island (WX039-090----) produced millstones in the middle ages, perhaps from this location. Robert Leigh writing in 1684 records that millstones were quarried from rock over Ballyhack (Hore 1858-9, 458). There are rectangular troughs (dims. c. 6m x 4m; D 0.3-0.5m), with the curved negative impression of millstones, cut into the surface of the rock outcrop. There are also some unfinished millstone rough-outs in the vicinity. 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: 17 June, 2013

• WX044-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a gentle N-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 55m) defined by a narrow ditch feature with an inturned entrance at E is visible on aerial photographs (MM (41) 0-2) and (ASIAP (9) 13, 14). It is also visible on digital aerial photographs (WX044-041_1 to _3). WX044-041----_1.jpg from E Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 June, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Ballyhack Church (Saint James and Dunbrody), graveyard/cemetery, 1762–2006 · Regional interest
  Description

  Graveyard with collection of lichen-spotted markers, ob. 1762-2006. Set in unkempt grounds with part creeper- or ivy-covered piers to perimeter having lichen-spotted shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought 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 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyhack · Baile Hac

Area

1,103,061 m² (110.31 ha, 272.57 acres)

Civil parish

St. James and Dunbrody, and its townlands

Barony

Shelburne

Electoral division

Ballyhack, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyhack electoral division: 1,363 people in 533 households; 80% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kilhile, Nook

Placenames

Ballyhack 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.