Ballylucas
Townland in the civil parish of Killisk, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Lúcáis
- Area
- 258 ha
- 638 acres
- Land parcels
- 105
- registered freehold, median 2,745 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
105 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylucas, from 29 m² to 279,202 m² (27.92 ha, 68.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 42 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 Ballylucas 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
16 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage with
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251665
17 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for alterations to development of a) the construction
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250190
21 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the development of a sandpit at this site of approx. 22 hectares
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240307
8 Mar 2024N/a
Permission for the development of a sandpit at this site of approx. 22 hectares
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240262
28 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of shed with associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221577
28 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed increase in height of part of existing shed roof
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221445
28 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for grain store extension with associated site works
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221446
28 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the following: 1. Installation of a new sewage treatment system,
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220557
20 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of the following: 1. Storage Shed to the rear 2. Garden
Retention, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220514
23 Dec 2021N/a
Permission for grain store extension with associated works
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20212057
8 Sept 2021Refused
Permission for retention of the following: 1. Storage Shed to the rear, 2. Garde
Retention, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211427
8 Sept 2021Refused
Permission for the following; 1. Planning permission for the retention of septic
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211428
12 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage/store together
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211116
7 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic garage and associate
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210007
19 Dec 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF EXISTING SHEDS AND PERMISSION IS BEING SOUGHT FOR DE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20161411
16 Mar 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF GRAIN STORE WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160265
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballylucas.
Recorded monuments
- WX033-002 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated at the crest of a S-facing slope with a small NE-SW stream c. 200m to the SE. This is a raised and scrub-covered oval area (dims. 28m E-W; 22m N-S; H 3.5-4.7m) defined by a flat bottomed fosse (Wth 6.5m; ext. D 0.6m) surviving W NE. It is listed as a motte (Colfer 1987, 99). 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: 4 September, 2012
- WX033-003 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Marked on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering as ‘St. Nicholas’s Well’ on both. It is situated in a scrub-covered area on the NW bank of a small NE-SW stream, but is not visible at ground level. There is no record of veneration. St. Nicholas's church (WX032-013001-) is c. 1.6 km to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 September, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballylucas.
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 10 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 Ballylucas.
- 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
- Ballylucas, Ballymurn9 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballylucas · Baile Lúcáis
- Area
- 2,580,174 m² (258.02 ha, 637.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killisk, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Kilmallock, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmallock electoral division: 1,550 people in 511 households; 83% of households own their home; 55% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballina Upper, Ballybeg Small, Ballymurn Upper, Ballynabrigadane, Ballysilla, Clonnasheeoge, Garryhubbock, Garryntinodagh, Turkyle
- Placenames
- Ballylucas 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.