Skehanard (Humble)
Skehanard (Humble) is a townland in the civil parish of Dungarvan, barony of Decies Without Drum, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is Sceach an Aird (Humble).
Parcel 1554472
- Area
- 2,032 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- G3 HA (WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028) The objective
- Townland
- Skehanard (Humble)
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1887 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 9.4 ha
- 23 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 3,887 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- HA
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skehanard (Humble), from 644 m² to 68,373 m² (6.84 ha, 16.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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
- G3HA (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1OS (Open space, park)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4SRR (Strategic Residential Reserve)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Aug 2025Conditional
to provide toilet facilities, install a new wastewater treatment system, percolation area, erect dugouts and all ancillary site works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2560546
29 Nov 2018Refused
a change of use of a store to 3 No. Holiday let apartments and planning permission for alterations to the fenestration, for an external stairway to provide access to the apartments, a treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 18808
29 Mar 2018Refused
a change of use of a store to 3 No. Holiday let apartments and planning permission for alterations to the fenestration, for an extension to provide access to the apartments, treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 18210
25 Jan 2018N/a
a change of use of a store to 3 No. Holiday let apartments and Planning Permission for alterations to the fenestration, for an extension to provide access to the apartments, a treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 1842
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dungarvan Harbour 000663
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Skehanard (Humble).
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Skehanard (Humble).
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 Skehanard (Humble), about 1 in 5 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, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1887 (ZIP).
- 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 Skehanard (Humble) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Skehanard (Humble) · Sceach an Aird (Humble)
- Area
- 94,485 m² (9.45 ha, 23.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dungarvan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Decies Without Drum
- Electoral division
- Dungarvan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,096 people lived in 699 households in the Dungarvan Rural electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bawnabraher, Duckspool, Loughanunna, Skehanard (Barron)
- Placenames
- Skehanard (Humble) 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.