Ballythomas
Ballythomas is a townland in the civil parish of Kilpipe, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Thomáis.
- Area
- 146.6 ha
- 362 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 7,384 m² (0.74 ha, 1.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballythomas, from 97 m² to 306,503 m² (30.65 ha, 75.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Ballythomas 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 Mar 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect ball-stop netting and all associated site and ancillary wor
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260341
1 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)
(1) Permission for retention of alterations to the dwelling and (2) permission
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251088
25 Oct 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A DEWELLINGHOUSE WITH SERVICES, DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191444
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 Ballythomas.
Recorded monuments
- WX002-010 Mound
Description
Marked only on the 1924 ed. of the OS 6-inch map immediately N of a NW-SE road. It is situated just N of the col of the Wicklow Gap separing Co. Wexford from the Derry Water, Aughrim and Avoka river systems, and Co. Wicklow. There is higher ground to the NE and SW and the ground slopes away steeply to the N and NW. This is a flat-topped, grass and scrub-covered earthen mound (diam. of base c. 15m; diam. of top 7m; H 5m) with a trail of material extending off to the SE (L c. 10m; H 1-2m) adjacent to the road that was built since the 1839 ed. of the map. Despite the strategic location it may be a spoil mound. 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: 27 January 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballythomas.
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 Ballythomas, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballythomas.
- 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 Ballythomas with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballythomas · Baile Thomáis
- Area
- 1,466,103 m² (146.61 ha, 362.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilpipe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Wingfield, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,045 people lived in 328 households in the Wingfield electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyday, Ballynabarney, Ballyrory, Ballythomashill, Carrig, Craan
- Placenames
- Ballythomas 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.