Beak

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beak, from 15 m² to 87,448 m² (8.74 ha, 21.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Beak 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.

• 5 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)

  A 10 year planning permission for development of an Integrated Tourism Resort

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250962

• 20 Nov 2023Refused

  Permission for development which will consist of change of roof finish

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231386

• 9 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of a single storey lean-to extension creating

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230648

• 27 Jan 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the Retention of external corridor structure from Hotel Lobby to

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220092

• 13 Jan 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic shed, i

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220019

• 20 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house, site enteran

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211339

• 4 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention and completion of the erection of alterations

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20201472

• 30 Sept 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a new partially enclosed 9m2 linking walkway

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201128

• 25 Sept 2020N/a

  Permission for the construction of a new linking corridor from Hotel Lobby

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201111

• 7 Aug 2020Refused

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house, site

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200902

• 23 Jun 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for extension/alterations to domestic garage located to rear of dwell

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200674

• 10 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)

  TEN YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191633

• 9 Aug 2019Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF SINGLE STOREY SUN ROOM

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191124

• 21 Jun 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION CONSISTS OF A SINGLE STOREY SUN ROOM EXTENSION TO SOUTH

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190866

• 27 May 2019N/a

  RETENTION PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT AT COAST, KILMORE QUAY, THE DEVELOPMENT CON

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190727

• 23 Apr 2019N/a

  RETENTION PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT AT COAST KILMORE QUAY CO WEXFORD. THE DEVEL

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190538

• 24 Oct 2018Granted (conditional)

  PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, SHED, C

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181468

• 9 Mar 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF THE ERECTION OF MINOR ALTERATIONS TO

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180284

• 24 Jun 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160720

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 the townland of Beak.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Beak.

Architectural heritage

• Beak Cottage, house, 1865–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey marine villa, rebuilt 1870, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1901. Vacant, 1911. Renovated, ----. Replacement hipped artificial slate roof with ridge tiles, paired cement rendered central chimney stacks having corbeled stepped stringcourses below capping, and uPVC rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves. Replacement cement rendered walls. Hipped segmental-headed central door opening with timber mullions supporting timber transom, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled double doors having sidelights below fanlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement six-over-six uPVC sash windows without horns retaining part exposed sash boxes. Interior including central entrance hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds.

• Kilmore Quay Garda Síochána Station, garda station/constabulary barracks, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey Garda Síochána station, built 1939, on a rectangular plan with five-bay two-storey rear (east) elevation. Refenestrated, ----. Hipped fibre-cement tile roof with lichen-covered ridge tiles, red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having shallow stringcourse below concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, sproketed eaves, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered box eaves. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed central window openings in segmental-headed recesses (ground floor) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement two-over-two sash windows having horizontal glazing bars. Square-headed flanking door openings approached by two steps with rendered monolithic surrounds framing timber panelled doors. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement two-over-two sash windows having horizontal glazing bars. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with roughcast boundary wall to perimeter having concrete "saddleback" coping.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Beak, about 1 in 20 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2922 (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.

No address of the register names Beak with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Beak · Béac

Area

273,404 m² (27.34 ha, 67.56 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Kilmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,469 people lived in 925 households in the Kilmore electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyteige, Crossfarnoge, Libgate, Nemestown

Placenames

Beak 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.