Ballyhigh

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhigh, from 99,999 m² (10 ha, 24.71 acres) to 308,979 m² (30.9 ha, 76.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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 Ballyhigh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballyhigh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballyhigh.

Recorded monuments

• WX027-005 Moated site
  Description

  Located on a gentle N-facing slope. This is a raised and overgrown rectangular area (dims. 47m E-W; 44m N-S) with low banks (at W: Wth c. 5m; int. H 0.9m) on the perimeter and raised corners. There is an external flat bottomed moat (Wth of top 6-8m; int. D 2.5-2.9m; ext. D 1.8m) on each side. A small stream enters the moat at the SE corner. (Barry 1977, 214, WX 13) 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 July 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyhigh, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyhigh · Baile Hae

Area

410,266 m² (41.03 ha, 101.38 acres)

Civil parish

Meelnagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen North

Electoral division

Killincooly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

664 people lived in 243 households in the Killincooly electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Garraun, Island, Kilnew, Moneyboe, Toberlomina

Placenames

Ballyhigh 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.