Ballyhighland

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhighland, from 107 m² to 511,224 m² (51.12 ha, 126.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 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 Ballyhighland 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.

• 3 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a two storey dwelling house and the installation

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250820

• 15 May 2025N/a

  Permission for the erection of a two storey dwelling house and the installation

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250566

• 22 Apr 2025N/a

  Permission for the erection of a two storey dwelling house and the installation

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250458

• 8 Nov 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241386

• 1 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development consisting of a new 198m2 single storey dwelling hous

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231438

• 21 Jul 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect at 33m telecommunications support structure carrying

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200810

• 1 Jul 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF SITE BOUNDARIES AND CHANGE OF LOCATION OF SEPTIC TANK

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190924

• 10 Jun 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR A CHANGE OF SITE BOUNDARIES AND CHANGE OF LOCATION OF SEPTIC TANK

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190808

• 7 May 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR A CHANGE OF LOCATION OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION UNDER PLANNIN

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190611

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 Ballyhighland.

Recorded monuments

• WX019-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1924 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped hachured feature truncated by a NW-SE field bank, it is located in the bottom of a NW-SE valley close to the headwaters of a stream, which is c. 60m to the NE. It was described as a circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by an earthen bank with an external fosse that was removed in 1975 (SMR file). No feature is visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 22 May, 2012

• WX019-013 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Marked as a D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 70m E-W; c. 55m N-S) slightly truncated by an E-W road at S on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a gentle NE-facing slope in a col between Ballyhighland Hill c. 800m to the SE and a lower rise c. 1 km to the NW. Nothing is visible at ground level but it is visible as a faint oval cropmark enclosure (dims. c. 60m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW) around a water resevoir on aerial photographs (MM (17) 26-7; (55) 12, 13). Archaeological testing (08E0431) on the other side of the road faileld to produce any related material (McLoughlin 2011) 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: 22 May, 2012

• WX019-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A curving field bank (C c. 50m ) SW-W-NE marked on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map suggests the presence of an enclosure located on a SW-facing slope. The cropmark of a bivallate enclosure (max. ext. diam. c. 70m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (17) 18-19) and visible as a vegeatation change of an earthen bank on Google Earth (2011; 14/07/2018). 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: 22 May, 2012

• WX019-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a S-facing slope. The faint cropmark of a circular enclosure (dims c. 36m E-W; c. 32m N-S) defined by a fosse is visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018). An outer fosse feature is also visible NE-S-SW (diam. c. 50m NE-SW) and the perimeter at N is incorporated into a mapped field bank, now visible as a parch mark. Suggestions of the enclosure are represented on the 1839 edition of the OS 6-inch map but there is no cropmark evidence of the houses represented on that map. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 September 2019

Architectural heritage

• Ballyhighland, farmyard complex, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, dated 1834, on a quadrangular plan including (east): Attached three- or five-bay double-height coach house-cum-stable outbuilding on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay full-height pedimented breakfront; five-bay two-storey courtyard (west) elevation centred on three-bay two-storey lean-to breakfront. Now in ruins. Remains of pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on lean-to slate roof (west), remains of pressed or rolled lead-covered ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on creeper- or ivy-covered eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone battered walls with cut-granite flush quoins to corners; channelled granite ashlar surface finish on cut-granite chamfered plinth (breakfront) with cut-granite flush quoins to corners supporting cut-granite pediment. Round-headed central opening (breakfront) with cut-granite archivolt framing timber boarded double doors having overpanel. Elliptical-headed central opening to courtyard (west) elevation with schist-inserted cut-granite voussoirs centred on cut-granite keystone. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite lintels framing remains of timber fittings having lattice glazing bars. Set in grounds originally shared with Ballyhighland. Set in grounds originally shared with Ballyhighland.

• Ballyhighland, mill (water), 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey mill with half-attic, built 1868, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, central rooflight to rear (south) pitch, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on granite or slate flagged eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with cut- or hammered granite flush quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central opening with red brick voussoirs framing timber waterwheel in cast-iron frame. Elliptical-headed flanking openings with red brick voussoirs framing timber boarded double doors. Square-headed window openings (half-attic) with slate sills, and cut- or hammered granite block-and-start surrounds with fittings now missing. Set in grounds originally shared with Ballyhighland.

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 moderately high, 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 Ballyhighland.

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

Name

Ballyhighland · Baile Uí Aoláin

Area

3,522,874 m² (352.29 ha, 870.52 acres)

Civil parish

Rossdroit, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Castleboro, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castleboro electoral division: 964 people in 337 households; 91% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughathlappa, Caim, Cloheden, Garraun Lower, Garraun Upper, Glenglass, Killann, Knockmore

Placenames

Ballyhighland 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.