# Ballykale, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmakilloge, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Caol. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,101,287 m² (110.13 ha, 272.13 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,833 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmakilloge, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/kilmakilloge.md - Barony: Ballaghkeen North - Electoral division: Courtown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/52983 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 240335 - Centre: latitude 52.649468, longitude -6.299228 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykale, from 65 m² to 246,850 m² (24.68 ha, 61 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 384232: 246,850 m² (24.68 ha, 61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/384232.md - Parcel 423723: 228,077 m² (22.81 ha, 56.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/423723.md - Parcel 1541376: 160,356 m² (16.04 ha, 39.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1541376.md - Parcel 425604: 112,689 m² (11.27 ha, 27.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/425604.md - Parcel 417581: 96,844 m² (9.68 ha, 23.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/417581.md - Parcel 393677: 45,885 m² (4.59 ha, 11.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/393677.md - Parcel 380492: 45,465 m² (4.55 ha, 11.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/380492.md - Parcel 417628: 35,718 m² (3.57 ha, 8.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/417628.md - Parcel 431881: 20,380 m² (2.04 ha, 5.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/431881.md - Parcel 2426363: 17,947 m² (1.79 ha, 4.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2426363.md - Parcel 393416: 9,898 m² (0.99 ha, 2.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/393416.md - Parcel 2407072: 9,541 m² (0.95 ha, 2.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2407072.md - Parcel 372120: 7,818 m² (0.78 ha, 1.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/372120.md - Parcel 5797281: 7,449 m² (0.74 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5797281.md - Parcel 4970361: 5,833 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4970361.md - Parcel 397483: 5,143 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/397483.md - Parcel 401127: 5,128 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/401127.md - Parcel 374671: 4,345 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/374671.md - Parcel 418938: 2,705 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/418938.md - Parcel 396591: 2,643 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/396591.md - Parcel 412389: 2,190 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/412389.md - Parcel 410504: 2,004 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/410504.md - Parcel 391621: 1,978 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/391621.md - Parcel 1541377: 1,102 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1541377.md - Parcel 5199609: 272 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5199609.md - Parcel 412447: 214 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/412447.md - Parcel 411032: 201 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/411032.md - Parcel 5883723: 81 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5883723.md - Parcel 4678239: 65 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4678239.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 12 Feb 2026, Wexford County Council 20260166: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission to construct a 284.3 M² extension to the side of existing assembly. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/130598 - 19 Jul 2021, Wexford County Council 20211146: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, stable build. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/121791 - 21 Dec 2020, Wexford County Council 20201593: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. Permission for the construction of a dwelling house & a domestic garage, all wit. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/118115 - 3 Sept 2020, Wexford County Council 20201010: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. Permission for the construction of a dwelling house all with ancillary site work. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/117208 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 Ballykale. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballykale. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Farm house, 1700–1839, Regional interest, registry number 15701136, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15701136. 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, registry number 15701204, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15701204. 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, registry number 15701205, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15701205. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3220.zip (ZIP). - 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/ballykale.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballykale.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballykale.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballykale 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) - Ballyminaunhill: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballyminaunhill.md - Carriganeagh: https://everytownland.com/wexford/carriganeagh.md - Coolnahinch: https://everytownland.com/wexford/coolnahinch.md - Coolnastudd: https://everytownland.com/wexford/coolnastudd.md - Coolnaveagh: https://everytownland.com/wexford/coolnaveagh.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/ballykale - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/ballykale