Ballyvake
Ballyvake is a townland in the civil parish of Edermine, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Bhéice.
- Area
- 138.7 ha
- 343 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 20,009 m² (2 ha, 4.94 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvake, from 244 m² to 155,509 m² (15.55 ha, 38.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Ballyvake 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
4 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)
Retention Permission for alterations to existing dwelling as granted under
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210301
22 Feb 2021N/a
Retention Permission for alterations to existing dwelling as granted under PL 20
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210238
30 Jan 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190106
10 Dec 2018N/a
PLANNING PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181697
28 Aug 2017Granted (conditional)
(1) PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF THE FOLLOWING; (A) ALTERATIONS TO FLOOR PLANS AN
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171157
28 Aug 2017Refused
PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED CLAY PIGEON SHOOT/TARGET RANG
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171159
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 Ballyvake.
Recorded monuments
- WX026-035 Moated site
Description
Marked faintly as a rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 35m WNW-ESE; c. 35m NNE-SSW) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6 inch map, and situated on the crest of a broad NE-SW ridge. It is not visible at ground level in a root crop but it can be seen on Google Earth (2002). (Barry 1977, 216, WX 25). 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: 11 July 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyvake.
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 Ballyvake, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyvake.
- 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 Ballyvake with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyvake · Baile Bhéice
- Area
- 1,387,391 m² (138.74 ha, 342.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- Edermine, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Edermine, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,597 people lived in 537 households in the Edermine electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyroe, Coolaknick, Coolamain, Island, Monroe, Riverview, Roperstown, Scurlocksbush
- Placenames
- Ballyvake 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.