# Ballyshelin, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Taghmon, barony of Shelmaliere West, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Sioláin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 836,764 m² (83.68 ha, 206.77 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,825 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Taghmon, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/taghmon.md - Barony: Shelmaliere West - Electoral division: Aughwilliam, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 587 people lived in 204 households in the Aughwilliam electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/53734 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 240492 - Centre: latitude 52.297912, longitude -6.598057 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyshelin, from 64 m² to 112,383 m² (11.24 ha, 27.77 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 408944: 112,383 m² (11.24 ha, 27.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/408944.md - Parcel 383663: 77,749 m² (7.77 ha, 19.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/383663.md - Parcel 374835: 77,653 m² (7.77 ha, 19.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/374835.md - Parcel 425187: 73,768 m² (7.38 ha, 18.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/425187.md - Parcel 425181: 73,051 m² (7.31 ha, 18.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/425181.md - Parcel 390648: 64,667 m² (6.47 ha, 15.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/390648.md - Parcel 407168: 57,389 m² (5.74 ha, 14.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/407168.md - Parcel 5090555: 45,610 m² (4.56 ha, 11.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5090555.md - Parcel 2406201: 41,805 m² (4.18 ha, 10.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2406201.md - Parcel 2685606: 35,520 m² (3.55 ha, 8.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2685606.md - Parcel 381451: 31,973 m² (3.2 ha, 7.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/381451.md - Parcel 2685640: 30,354 m² (3.04 ha, 7.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2685640.md - Parcel 5411005: 26,580 m² (2.66 ha, 6.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5411005.md - Parcel 390653: 21,238 m² (2.12 ha, 5.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/390653.md - Parcel 425186: 12,810 m² (1.28 ha, 3.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/425186.md - Parcel 402343: 9,117 m² (0.91 ha, 2.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/402343.md - Parcel 5090575: 5,236 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5090575.md - Parcel 2406182: 5,204 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2406182.md - Parcel 5473256: 4,446 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5473256.md - Parcel 374030: 4,256 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/374030.md - Parcel 398689: 2,940 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/398689.md - Parcel 403036: 2,921 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/403036.md - Parcel 2685587: 2,920 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2685587.md - Parcel 396869: 2,850 m² (0.29 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/396869.md - Parcel 403230: 2,305 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/403230.md - Parcel 380511: 2,204 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/380511.md - Parcel 363558: 2,085 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/363558.md - Parcel 412355: 2,080 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/412355.md - Parcel 421843: 1,429 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/421843.md - Parcel 5180988: 1,108 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5180988.md - Parcel 5090582: 956 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5090582.md - Parcel 415958: 873 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/415958.md - Parcel 401635: 600 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/401635.md - Parcel 5090554: 216 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5090554.md - Parcel 5090566: 179 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5090566.md - Parcel 5090567: 64 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5090567.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyshelin in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 29 Aug 2024, Wexford County Council 20241041: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission is sought for the proposed construction of a fully serviced. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/127692 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyshelin. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WX041-027: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX041-027----. References to a castle at Ballyshelin date with certainty from the Civil Survey (1654-6) when a 'slate house' and 360 acres were the property of Philip Hore, together with 360 acres at Harveystown (Simington 1953, 98). It is depicted faintly as a rectangular structure (dims c. 10m E-W; c. 5m N-S) on the 1839 Ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on level ground at the SW base of Forth Mountain. A slightly raised oval area (dims. 18m E-W; 11m N-S) may be the site. Immediately to the W is a N-S sunken track or fosse (L 150m; Wth 4-8m). There was exposed stonework visible at the N end of this feature in 1988. All the features have eroded further through ploughing. 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: 19 March, 2013 - WX041-027001: Road - hollow-way, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX041-027001-. Situated on level ground at the SW base of Forth Mountain. Immediately to the W of the castle (WX041-027----) is a N-S sunken track or fosse (L 150m; Wth 4-8m). There was exposed stonework visible at the N end of this feature in 1988. All the features have eroded further through ploughing. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 March, 2013 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity, church/chapel, 1835–1840, Regional interest, registry number 15704144, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15704144. Detached three- or four-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, dated 1838, on a rectangular plan. "Improved", pre-1863, producing present composition. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables including concrete coping to gable to entrance (south) front with granite ashlar buttressed gabled bellcote to apex framing embossed cast-bronze bell, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined battered walls on rendered "bas-relief" plinth with roughcast-panelled rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Lancet window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered flush surrounds framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass "lozenges". Pointed-arch opposing door openings (south) with rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement fittings. Full-height interior with carpeted central aisle between replacement timber pews, grouped timber stations between stained glass windows (----), carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (north) reordered, ----, with cut-veined white marble Gothic-style high altar, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on "Acanthus"-detailed ceiling roses. Set in relandscaped grounds. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballyshelin, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyshelin. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballyshelin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballyshelin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballyshelin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyshelin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Durra Little: https://everytownland.com/wexford/durra-little.md - Shelmaliere Commons: https://everytownland.com/wexford/shelmaliere-commons-242071.md - Tincurra: https://everytownland.com/wexford/tincurra.md - Tracystown East: https://everytownland.com/wexford/tracystown-east.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballyshelin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/ballyshelin