Ballyhack, County Wexford

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Village in County Wexford, Ireland

title: "Ballyhack, County Wexford" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["towns-and-villages-in-county-wexford", "national-monuments-in-county-wexford"] description: "Village in County Wexford, Ireland" topic_path: "general/towns-and-villages-in-county-wexford" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballyhack,_County_Wexford" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Village in County Wexford, Ireland ::

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Field	Value
name	Ballyhack
native_name	Baile Hac
native_name_lang	ga
settlement_type	Village
image_skyline	Ballyhack Harbour, Co. Wexford - geograph.org.uk - 212166.jpg
image_caption	Ballyhack Harbour
pushpin_map	Ireland
pushpin_label_position	right
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Ireland
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Ireland
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Leinster
subdivision_type3	County
subdivision_name3	Wexford
unit_pref	Metric
population_as_of	2016
population_footnotes
population_total	206
population_density_km2	auto
timezone1	WET
utc_offset1	+0
timezone1_DST	IST (WEST)
utc_offset1_DST	-1
coordinates
area_code	051
blank_name	Irish Grid Reference
blank_info
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Ballyhack () is a small village located in the south-west of County Wexford, in Ireland, on the eastern shore of the Waterford Harbour, which is the estuary of The Three Sisters

History

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The village contains a 15th-century Norman castle or tower house, which belonged to the Knights Hospitallers and was built around 1480, though it is thought the site's use was initially as a Preceptory, as far back as the 12th-century. The castle was occupied by Cromwellian forces during the Irish Rebellion of 1641, and was later used as a transportation point for those displaced by the Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652. It is from this association that the phrase "Go to Ballyhack" was coined.

The castle is open to the public, having been partially restored, and displays objects relating to the Crusades, the Normans, and medieval monks. Some of the features of the castle that are on view are its dungeon, murder-hole, effigies and oratory.

Name

Ballyhack has been represented in Irish as Baile Hac and Baile Each. The derivation is believed to be from the Irish word for stable, seasmhach, and baile, meaning town, village, home or settlement. Thus, Ballyhack would mean the place or town of the stable.

Amenities

The village contains a shop, a pub, an old schoolhouse, and a small quay for fishing boats.

A ferry service operates between Ballyhack and Passage East (County Waterford), over the broad estuary of The Three Sisters.

There is also a cemetery located on a height near the edge of the village, which is located on the site of the former Ballyhack Church (Saint James's). The church was closed in the late 1800s, and demolished at some point before 1902. A point of interest in the graveyard includes a record of a Laurence Power, who supposedly died in 1836 at age 170.

The school in the village is called St. Catherine's NS and is located on top of Ballyhack Hill. It opened over a century ago.

Sport

The local Gaelic Athletic Association club is St James GAA, which plays in the Intermediate grade of the Wexford Championship. The local soccer team is Duncannon FC.

References

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