Ballynaclash
Ballynaclash is a townland in the civil parish of Ballyvalloo, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile na Claise.
- Area
- 113.1 ha
- 280 acres
- Land parcels
- 134
- registered freehold, median 1,536 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 20
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
134 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynaclash, from 44 m² to 137,249 m² (13.72 ha, 33.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballynaclash 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
10 Aug 2026N/a
Permission for removal of existing mobile home and erection of a dwelling house,
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20210762
18 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251181
10 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a to storey dwelling along with all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250147
8 Nov 2024N/a
Permission for retention for development. The development will consist
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241391
6 Sept 2024N/a
Permission for retention for mobile home and secure storage
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241083
13 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of alterations and extensions to existing
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240277
21 Feb 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the alterations to front windows and for the installation of a
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230160
2 Sept 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of the re-orientation of an existing dwelling house
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221174
19 Aug 2022Refused
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221107
29 Nov 2021Refused
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic garage and
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211843
17 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of existing fully serviced dwelling
Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211472
22 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house with domestic gar
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210593
12 Nov 2020Refused
Permission for erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store and associate
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201333
9 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house with ancillar
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201316
14 Oct 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ALTERATIONS TO PLANS AND ELEVATIONS OF A FULLY
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191382
31 Aug 2018N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND 3 NO
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181181
12 Apr 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION BEING SOUGHT FOR RETENTION OF MODIFICATIONS TO FRONT ELEVATION OF DWE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180466
25 Oct 2017Granted (unconditional)
ALTERATIONS TO PLANS & ELEVATIONS OF A FULLY SERVICED TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20120895
15 Sept 2016Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, FOUR STABLES & A
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161029
27 Jan 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS & FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO DWELLING HOUS
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160060
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 Protection Area: The Raven SPA 004019
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Wexford Slobs And Harbour 000712
Recorded monuments
- WX033-005 House - 17th century
Description
Land at Ballynaclash was granted to John Langhorne, a son-in-law of Lord Deputy Chichtester, in 1613, and a small castle of two and a half storeys and a court or bawn had been built by 1621 (Loeber and Stouthamer Loeber 1987, 189). By this time it was owned by Sir Adam Loftus, who also owned an estate at Rahale (WX032-039----), c. 11 km to the W. By 1641 Loftus had let or transferred Ballynaclash to George Cheevers, a Catholic, who, according to the Civil Survey (1654-6) owned 605 acres and a ruined stone house in Ballyvollowe (Ballyvaldon) parish in Ballyvaldon, Ballyconnigar, Balina and Ballineclassy townlands (Simington 1953, 57). The house is said to have been burnt by Patrick Longe c. 1651, supposedly to prevent it falling into the hands of Catholic rebels, but the circumstances are equivocal (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 497-500). The remains of a circular tower survived until c. 1980, but there are no visible remains of any structure now at ground level. See the attached section from the Down Survey (1656-8) parish map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725) 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: 5 September, 2012
- WX033-036 Burnt mound
Description
Situated on a SE facing slope of a low rise in the basin of the N S River Blackwater close to where it enters the sea, with the stream c. 320m to the E and the sea shore c. 450m to the SE. A circular area (diam. 11m WNW-ESE; 10.3m NNE-SSW) of broken and burnt stone in a black matrix (T 0.14-0.4m) was recorded in forestry operations by Emmet Byrnes in 2012. It will be excluded from the plantation. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 September, 2012
Architectural heritage
- Rowan, house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1840, centred on single-bay single-storey projecting porch. Modified, post-1924, producing present composition. Refenestrated. Hipped roofs including hipped roof to porch with part iron mesh-covered oat thatch, iron mesh-covered blind stretchers to raised ridge having blind scallops, rendered chimney stack having iron mesh-covered concrete capping, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Rendered, ruled and lined battered walls over mud wall construction on random rubble stone base with fine roughcast walls to porch. Square-headed window openings with no sills, and replacement timber casement windows retaining one two-over-two timber sash window to porch having part exposed sash box. Set in own grounds perpendicular to road on a corner site [OS].
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballynaclash, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3194 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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
No address of the register names Ballynaclash with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynaclash · Baile na Claise
- Area
- 1,131,375 m² (113.14 ha, 279.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyvalloo, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Castle Ellis, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,284 people lived in 454 households in the Castle Ellis electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballina Lower, Ballyconnigar Lower, Ballyvalloo Lower, Inch
- Placenames
- Ballynaclash 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.