Ballyheige

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyheige, from 100 m² to 308,486 m² (30.85 ha, 76.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Ballyheige 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.

• 15 May 2019Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION OF (A) ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DEVELOPMENT

  Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20190646

• 26 Apr 2019N/a

  RETENTION OF (A) ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DEVELOPMENT

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190560

• 23 Jul 2018Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION PLANNING PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS TO THE DESIGN OF A DWELLING

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20181002

• 23 May 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION AND PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WIT

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160545

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 Ballyheige.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyheige.

Architectural heritage

• Kelly's Thatch Cottage, house, 1842–1903 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three- or four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, extant 1903, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Refenestrated, ----. Reroofed, ----. Replacement hipped oat thatch roof with chicken wire-covered rope twist above paired exposed hazel stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, rendered off-central dwarf chimney stack having chamfered capping, and exposed hazel stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls on rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" strips to corners. Square-headed off-central door opening in elliptical-headed recess with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed aluminium panelled door. Square-headed (west) or paired square-headed (east) flanking window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement aluminium casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron gate.

• House, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry house with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. "Improved", post-1925, producing present composition to accommodate alternative use. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack having precast concrete corbelled stepped capping, concrete or rendered coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined battered walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• Patrick Fortune, house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry house with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. "Improved", pre-1903, producing present composition to accommodate alternative use. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack on red brick Running bond base having shallow stringcourse below capping, concrete or rendered coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined battered walls. Pair of square-headed off-central door openings with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door (west) or glazed timber panelled double doors (east). Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two (ground floor) or three-over-six (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes with two-over-two timber sash windows to side elevations. Set perpendicular to road.

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 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 Ballyheige.

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

Name

Ballyheige · Buaile Thaidhg

Area

1,008,901 m² (100.89 ha, 249.3 acres)

Civil parish

Skreen, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen South

Electoral division

Ardcolm, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardcolm electoral division: 982 people in 368 households; 83% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinrooaun, Ballyfarnoge, Ballylemin, Ballymore, Garrylough Lower, Glebe

Placenames

Ballyheige 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.