Ballyknock

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyknock, from 157 m² to 443,921 m² (44.39 ha, 109.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Ballyknock 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.

• 18 Mar 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of 2 sheds, the omission of an outfall from

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250308

• 5 Sept 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwellinghouse

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231054

• 17 Sept 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING APPROVED DWELLING HO

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20181267

• 29 May 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170657

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 Ballyknock.

Recorded monuments

• WX041-062 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a slight N-S spur. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 80m NE-SW; c. 70m NW-SE) is defined by a distinct fosse feature with a lighter outer feature c. 10-15m outside it. It is bisected by a NW-SE field bank and only the NE part is visible in a cereal crop on aerial photographs (ASIAP (10) 6-8). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 March, 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Ballyknock.

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.

• Ballyknock, Ballymitty8 sales

Name

Ballyknock · Baile an Chnoic

Area

1,058,690 m² (105.87 ha, 261.61 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymitty, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere West

Electoral division

Ballymitty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymitty electoral division: 583 people in 210 households; 87% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughermon, Ballymitty, Harristown (Reask), Hilltown, Knockbine, Mongaun, Tullycanna

Placenames

Ballyknock 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.