# Ballyheige, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Skreen, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford; in Irish Buaile Thaidhg. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,008,901 m² (100.89 ha, 249.3 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,077 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Skreen, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/skreen.md - Barony: Ballaghkeen South - Electoral division: Ardcolm, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/53680 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 240317 - Centre: latitude 52.417276, longitude -6.416352 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyheige, from 100 m² to 308,486 m² (30.85 ha, 76.23 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 421206: 308,486 m² (30.85 ha, 76.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/421206.md - Parcel 5047677: 171,355 m² (17.14 ha, 42.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5047677.md - Parcel 399911: 105,224 m² (10.52 ha, 26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/399911.md - Parcel 406236: 73,409 m² (7.34 ha, 18.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/406236.md - Parcel 428590: 45,980 m² (4.6 ha, 11.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/428590.md - Parcel 2408302: 35,741 m² (3.57 ha, 8.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2408302.md - Parcel 402682: 34,281 m² (3.43 ha, 8.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/402682.md - Parcel 386010: 33,994 m² (3.4 ha, 8.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/386010.md - Parcel 401206: 22,967 m² (2.3 ha, 5.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/401206.md - Parcel 361878: 18,657 m² (1.87 ha, 4.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/361878.md - Parcel 4615836: 16,045 m² (1.6 ha, 3.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4615836.md - Parcel 418936: 14,323 m² (1.43 ha, 3.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/418936.md - Parcel 2408366: 13,708 m² (1.37 ha, 3.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2408366.md - Parcel 2408298: 13,194 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2408298.md - Parcel 3346771: 6,001 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3346771.md - Parcel 4859177: 5,637 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4859177.md - Parcel 4859180: 5,403 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4859180.md - Parcel 419302: 5,047 m² (0.5 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/419302.md - Parcel 393786: 4,742 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/393786.md - Parcel 372488: 4,391 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/372488.md - Parcel 393354: 3,872 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/393354.md - Parcel 420571: 3,656 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/420571.md - Parcel 367164: 3,292 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/367164.md - Parcel 2408222: 2,860 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2408222.md - Parcel 376090: 2,843 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/376090.md - Parcel 426794: 2,723 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/426794.md - Parcel 2678349: 2,568 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2678349.md - Parcel 422375: 2,539 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/422375.md - Parcel 417578: 2,393 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/417578.md - Parcel 388851: 2,272 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/388851.md - Parcel 424813: 2,146 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/424813.md - Parcel 422108: 2,083 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/422108.md - Parcel 403692: 2,071 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/403692.md - Parcel 419405: 1,951 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/419405.md - Parcel 402059: 1,931 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/402059.md - Parcel 419567: 1,912 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/419567.md - Parcel 386506: 1,841 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/386506.md - Parcel 5763539: 1,765 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5763539.md - Parcel 376825: 1,752 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/376825.md - Parcel 388687: 1,523 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/388687.md - Parcel 385850: 1,479 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/385850.md - Parcel 3766726: 1,198 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3766726.md - Parcel 3776518: 1,128 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3776518.md - Parcel 3748614: 1,085 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3748614.md - Parcel 3747634: 930 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3747634.md - Parcel 2408374: 919 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2408374.md - Parcel 3748014: 862 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3748014.md - Parcel 3745327: 842 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3745327.md - Parcel 4104629: 791 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4104629.md - Parcel 378312: 781 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/378312.md - Parcel 4104611: 749 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4104611.md - Parcel 3745387: 742 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3745387.md - Parcel 3745189: 573 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3745189.md - Parcel 3749614: 562 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3749614.md - Parcel 4104656: 559 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4104656.md - Parcel 4104643: 557 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4104643.md - Parcel 3749274: 531 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3749274.md - Parcel 3745687: 512 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3745687.md - Parcel 4104502: 504 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4104502.md - Parcel 403070: 479 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/403070.md - Parcel 388911: 306 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/388911.md - Parcel 5422425: 245 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5422425.md - Parcel 393675: 203 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/393675.md - Parcel 5422424: 100 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5422424.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 15 May 2019, Wexford County Council 20190646: Granted (conditional). Retention, 2 homes. RETENTION OF (A) ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DEVELOPMENT. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/108534 - 26 Apr 2019, Wexford County Council 20190560: N/a. Retention. RETENTION OF (A) ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DEVELOPMENT. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/108434 - 23 Jul 2018, Wexford County Council 20181002: Granted (conditional). Retention. RETENTION PLANNING PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS TO THE DESIGN OF A DWELLING. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/106682 - 23 May 2016, Wexford County Council 20160545: Granted (conditional). Retention. PERMISSION FOR RETENTION AND PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WIT. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/101627 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyheige. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyheige. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Kelly's Thatch Cottage, house, 1842–1903, Regional interest, registry number 15703311, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15703311. 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, registry number 15703312, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15703312. 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, registry number 15703313, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15703313. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballyheige.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballyheige.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballyheige.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyheige with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinrooaun: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballinrooaun-240144.md - Ballyfarnoge: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballyfarnoge-240274.md - Ballylemin: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballylemin.md - Ballymore: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballymore-240390.md - Garrylough Lower: https://everytownland.com/wexford/garrylough-lower.md - Glebe: https://everytownland.com/wexford/glebe-241196.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballyheige - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/ballyheige