Ballynahask
Townland in the civil parish of Killincooly, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile na hEasca
- Area
- 97.5 ha
- 241 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 2,181 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynahask, from 37 m² to 253,767 m² (25.38 ha, 62.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Ballynahask 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
19 Dec 2025N/a
Permission for the extension and restoration of
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251709
3 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of 2 gable windows to attic space,
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251107
22 Jan 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a single storey dwelling with services
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240047
5 Dec 2023N/a
Permission to erect a single storey dwelling with services, domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231458
25 Oct 2022Refused
Permission to erect a single storey dwelling with services, domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221422
31 Jan 2022Refused
Permission to erect a single storey dwelling with services, domestic garage and
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220106
24 Aug 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention and completion of alterations to site boundaries, site
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200973
11 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store and associate
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200295
5 Apr 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE COMPRISI
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180428
26 Feb 2018Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180225
11 May 2017N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170581
24 Apr 2017N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170508
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 Ballynahask.
Recorded monuments
- WX027-007 Moated site
Description
Marked as a square embanked or moated enclosure (ext. dims. c. 30m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is located on a small N-S spur with the headwaters of a small NW-SE stream c. 20m to the NE. It is described as a rectangular platform defined by a fosse (Wth 2.4m; D 1m) (Barry 1977, 215, WX 21). It has been removed since 1977 and is not visible 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: 17 July 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynahask.
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 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 Ballynahask.
- 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
No address of the register names Ballynahask with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynahask · Baile na hEasca
- Area
- 975,248 m² (97.52 ha, 240.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killincooly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Electoral division
- Ballyvaldon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyvaldon electoral division: 802 people in 282 households; 88% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyduff, Ballymacsimon, Ballynahask, Ballynamona, Killincooly More, Kilnew, Kilnew
- Placenames
- Ballynahask 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.