Ballyleigh
Townland in the civil parish of St. Mullins, barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Baile Liath
- Area
- 505.3 ha
- 1,249 acres
- Land parcels
- 100
- registered freehold, median 7,183 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
100 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyleigh, from 42 m² to 280,051 m² (28.01 ha, 69.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 43 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyleigh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Dec 2025Refused
Permission for 1) new storaqe shed for feed store and qeneral items, 2) to
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251673
8 Jul 2025N/a
1) Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250844
23 Apr 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a building to contain a storage area and carpentr
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250475
6 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for alterations and extensions to dwelling, to include a ground
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250137
19 Dec 2024N/a
Permission for alterations and extensions to dwelling, to include a ground fl
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241597
7 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for works to uprate the existing Great Island - Kellis 220kV
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241230
4 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic gara
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211539
27 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced residence, enterance and all associated
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211202
24 May 2021Granted (conditional)
1) Permission for retention and Completion of the fully Serviced Dwelling House
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210795
18 Dec 2020Refused
Permission to construct a domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201584
12 Aug 2020Refused
Permission to construct a fully serviced residence, entrance and all associated
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200924
7 Aug 2020N/a
Permission to construct a fully serviced residence, entrance and all associated
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200905
27 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND ANCILIARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170352
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Barrow River Estuary 000698
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Pollmounty River Valley 000812
Recorded monuments
- WX023-002001 Hilltop enclosure
Description
Located towards the top of the E-facing slope of a prominent hill. This is a subcircular grass and fern-covered area (int. dims 80m N-S; 74m E-W) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 1.5-2m; H 1-1.4m). There is no visible entrance or fosse, but there was a small upright stone (dims c. 0.25m x 0.25m; H c. 0.85m) (Macalister 1937) at the centre that is no longer present. 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. WX023-002----_1.jpg from W WX023-002----_2.jpg from N Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 25 June, 2012
- WX023-002002 Standing stone
Description
Situated at the centre of cashel (WX023-002001-). There was a small upright stone (dims c. 0.25m x 0.25m; H c. 0.85m) that is no longer present and which is unlikely to be an antiquity (Macalister 1937). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 25 June, 2012
- WX023-003 Castle - unclassified
Description
Marked faintly as a rectangular feature (dims. c. 20m E-W; c. 10m N-S) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and described as the site of a castle on both the 1839 and 1924 eds. According to the Civil Survey (1654-56) Morgan Cavanagh, an Irish papist, owned 500 acres in Ballileigh in 1641, but there is no mention of a castle (Simington 1953, 214). It is situated on a fairly level, landscape. There are no visible remains 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: 25 June, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyleigh.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyleigh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Ballyleigh, New Ross8 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballyleigh · An Baile Liath
- Area
- 5,052,520 m² (505.25 ha, 1,248.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Mullins, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Ballyanne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyanne electoral division: 793 people in 276 households; 84% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyknockcrumpin (Co. Carlow), Ballynabanoge, Ballynacoolagh, Ballynalour (Co. Carlow), Ballywilliam, Bigwood, Bolacaheer, Curraun, Drummin (Co. Carlow), Gobbinstown
- Placenames
- Ballyleigh 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.