Ballykale

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykale, from 65 m² to 246,850 m² (24.68 ha, 61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Ballykale 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.

• 12 Feb 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a 284.3 M² extension to the side of existing assembly

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260166

• 19 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, stable build

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211146

• 21 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a dwelling house & a domestic garage, all wit

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201593

• 3 Sept 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a dwelling house all with ancillary site work

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201010

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 Ballykale.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballykale.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1839 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1839, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Now disused. Pitched slate roof including gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic; pitched (gabled) slate roof (windbreak), clay ridge tiles off-centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack having stringcourse below capping, decorative timber bargeboards to gables with finials now missing, and no rainwater goods surviving on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Fine roughcast battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with overgrown threshold, and concealed dressings including timber lintel framing timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing boarded-up three-over-three (ground floor) or one-over-one (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows. Set back from road in unkempt grounds.

• Mill (water), 1841–1904 · Regional interest
  Description

  Saw mill complex, post-1841, retaining fabric of earlier corn mill complex, extant 1835/40, including: Attached three-bay two-storey mill manager's or mill owner's house on a symmetrical plan centred on single-bay single-storey projecting glazed porch to ground floor with single-bay two-storey side (north) elevation. Now disused. Pitched and hipped slate roof on collared timber construction partly collapsed with roll moulded terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on part creeper-covered rendered eaves. Hipped glazed roof to porch in timber frame with carved timber "Torus" ridges rising to finial to apex. Part creeper-covered lime rendered walls over semi-coursed random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to porch with shallow sill course on rendered riser, and timber mullions framing fixed-pane (six-light) timber window. Round- or segmental-headed door opening into house with timber panelled door having overlight. Interior retaining timber panelled reveals or shutters to window openings. Set in own grounds with unkempt grounds to site [OS].

• Ballykale House, farm house, 1842–1904 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1904, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (two-bay deep) full-height central return (east). Sold, 1970. Reroofed, ----. Replacement hipped artificial slate roof on a T-shaped plan with ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights on panelled risers below overlight. Square-headed window openings with creeper- or ivy-covered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3220 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballykale · Baile Caol

Area

1,101,287 m² (110.13 ha, 272.13 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmakilloge, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen North

Electoral division

Courtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Courtown electoral division: 3,012 people in 1,030 households; 79% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyminaunhill, Carriganeagh, Coolnahinch, Coolnastudd, Coolnaveagh

Placenames

Ballykale 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.