Ballyvelig
Townland in the civil parish of St. James and Dunbrody, barony of Shelburne, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Mhéilic
- Area
- 171.7 ha
- 424 acres
- Land parcels
- 133
- registered freehold, median 1,706 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
133 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvelig, from 3 m² to 243,084 m² (24.31 ha, 60.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 42 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 Ballyvelig 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
23 Jun 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of a change of use of a domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260810
12 Nov 2025N/a
Permission for the construction of a two-storey dwelling house, domestic
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251465
26 Sept 2022Granted (conditional)
Planning permission for the erection of flood lighting to existing football
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221273
27 Jan 2020Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR A CHANGE OF SITE BOUNDARIES, CHANGE OF LOCATION OF SEWERAGE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200079
9 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMES
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191622
4 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION PERMISSION FOR THE SPECTATORS STAND AND DUG OUTS AS CONSTRUCTED
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191602
12 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE DEMOLITION OF A SINGLE STOREY BUILDING TO REAR OF THE EXISTIN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190817
9 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND THE ERECTION
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190460
13 Apr 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING FIRST FLOOR ATTIC SPACE TO USABLE/
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180474
26 Mar 2018N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING FIRST FLOOR ATTIC SPACE TO USABLE/
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180366
17 Nov 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE RETENTION OF CHANGES TO A DWELLING HOUSE AND THE RETENTION OF
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171497
2 Oct 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION FOR THE CHANGE OF USE OF 1 NO. EXISTING APARTMENT & COM
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171296
28 Sept 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CHANGE OF USE OF 2 NO EXISTING APARTMENTS INTO 1 NO DWELLING
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171286
17 May 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH REAR LEAN-TO EXTENSION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170602
23 Feb 2017Granted (conditional)
INDEFINITE RETENTION PERMISSION FOR THE DETACHED GARDEN STORE AS CONSTRUCTED AT
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170201
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 Ballyvelig.
Recorded monuments
- WX039-038001 Fulacht fia
Description
Marked as a fulacht fia only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the NE bank of a SE-NW stream. This is an oval, grass-covered mound of stones (dims. 15m x 6m; H 0.3m) adjacent to the stream. Fulacht fia (WX-039-038002-) is 5m to the NW. 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: 24 January, 2013
- WX039-038002 Fulacht fia
Description
Situated on the NE bank of a SE-NW stream. This is an oval, grass-covered mound of stones (dims. 10m x 6m; H 0.3m) c. 5m NW of the fulacht fia (WX039-038001-). 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: 24 January, 2013
- WX039-040 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on the outer edge of a shelf on a SW-facing slope. This is an oval grass and scrub-covered area (dims c. 38m NNW-SSE; 26m ENE-WSW) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 7.8-8.5m; int. H 0.3-0.7m; ext. H 0.7-0.9m) with the remains of an outer fosse (Wth of top 5.2-7.5m; D 0.4-0.4m). Beyond the fosse is a berm (Wth 11m at NE; 4m at SW) defined by a low bank or scarp (max. H 0.8m) (max. ext. dim. ENE-WSW 58m). The outer scarp is truncated by NE-SW field banks at NW and SE. There is no identifiable entrance. 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: 24 January, 2013
- WX039-042 Urn burial
Description
Situated on a shelf on the E side of Carrickshawn Hill. There were local reports of the discovery of an urn, similar to that at (WX039-043----), made c. 1890 (Ó Ríordáin 1936, 187). A geophysical survey (20R0066) by J. M. Leigh of a small area(dims c. 60m x c. 40m) c. 75m to the SE at the closest point produced evidence of possible archaeological features, but archaeological testing (20E0242) by C. McLoughlin failed to produce any evidence of archaeological features (McLoughlin 2020). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 January, 2013 Amended: 9 November 2022
- WX039-043 Urn burial
Description
Located on the N side of a col at the S foot of Carrickshawn Hill, with a low hill rising c. 500m to the SE, and on a gentle E-facing slope. An inverted cordoned urn with all over incised and hatched decoration was found in 1935 at the base of a field bank (Ó Ríordáin 1936). It contained some cremated bone but too little to analyse. According to local reports a similar urn (WX039-042----) had been found c. 230m to the NNW around 1890. A geophysical survey (20R0066) by J. M. Leigh of a small area(dims c. 60m x c. 40m) c. 120m to the NE at the closest point produced evidence of possible archaeological features, but archaeological testing (20E0242) by C. McLoughlin failed to produce any evidence of archaeological features (McLoughlin 2020). (Culleton 1984, 39-41; Waddell 1990, 155) 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: 24 January, 2013 Amended: 9 November 20222
Architectural heritage
- Kenny, house, 1902–1911 · Regional interest
Description
Attached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1911, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, moss-covered rendered coping to gables with rendered, ruled and lined chimney stacks to apexes having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined battered walls with rendered panelled quoins to ends. Square-headed window opening in bipartite arrangement in square-headed recess (porch) with concrete sill, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows behind wrought iron bars. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Street fronted.
- Campile Garda Síochána Station, garda station/constabulary barracks, 1925–1930 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey Garda Síochána station, built 1927, on a U-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting end bays. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan with pitched (gabled) slate roofs (end bays), clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks centred on rendered chimney stack having red brick English bond stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on chevron- or saw tooth-detailed red brick cornice. Roughcast walls on rendered chamfered base. Square-headed central window openings in tripartite arrangement with concrete sills, and rendered surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows having two-over-two sidelights. Square-headed window openings (end bays) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set back from line of street in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site.
- Tinnock Bridge, bridge, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch railway bridge over road, opened 1906. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered channelled walls between rendered channelled battered abutment walls with rendered chamfered stringcourses supporting parapets having concrete chamfered coping. Single segmental arch with red brick header bond voussoirs. Sited spanning road on a corner site with unkempt embankments to road.
- Handball alley, 1905–1940 · Regional interest
Description
Handball alley, extant 1940, on a rectangular plan with cement rendered concrete block boundary wall to perimeter having part creeper- or ivy-covered coping. Now disused. Road fronted on a wedge-shaped corner site.
- Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak. Occupied, 1990. Vacant, 2007. Pitched thatch roof on a T-shaped plan centred on lean-to slate roof (windbreak), remains of exposed stretchers to degraded ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered central chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping, concrete coping to gables, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Creeper- or ivy-covered lime rendered battered walls; part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast surface finish to rear (north) elevation centred on battered buttress. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with concealed dressings framing two-over-two (west) or six-over-six (east) timber sash windows. Set in courtyard.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyvelig.
- 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
- Ballyvelig, Campile6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballyvelig · Baile Mhéilic
- Area
- 1,717,170 m² (171.72 ha, 424.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. James and Dunbrody, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelburne
- Electoral division
- Ballyhack, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyhack electoral division: 1,363 people in 533 households; 80% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykeeroge, Ballykeerogebeg, Boderan, Dunbrody, Grange, Rosetown, Tinnock
- Placenames
- Ballyvelig 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.