Grange Big
Grange Big is a townland in the civil parish of Rosslare, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Ghráinseach Mhór.
Parcel 2409979
- Area
- 77 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Grange Big
Planning applications on this parcel
14 Jul 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house,
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230819
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 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3134 (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
- 45 ha
- 111 acres
- Land parcels
- 209
- registered freehold, median 310 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
209 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grange Big, from 9 m² to 65,857 m² (6.59 ha, 16.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Grange Big 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
10 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced detached dwelling house
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260439
21 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of an extension to existing dwelling and
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260062
7 Jan 2026N/a
Permission for the proposed erection of an extension to existing
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260012
3 Dec 2025N/a
Permission for the proposed erection of an extension to existing dwelling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251582
16 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for alterations to existing east and west single storey
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251318
12 Jul 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the propsed erection of alterations and extensions to an existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240835
14 Jul 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house,
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230819
26 Apr 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic store
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230438
26 Jan 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for alterations and extension to an existing garage and change of use
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220089
4 Nov 2021Refused
Permission for alterations and extensions to an existing garage and change of
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211715
15 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of minor alterations and extensions to an existing
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211597
4 Sept 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions to an
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201015
22 May 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC STORE AND ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190688
8 Jan 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190005
18 Dec 2018N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC/STORE AND
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181756
25 Nov 2016Refused
PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING RECEPTION BUILDING TO HOLIDAY
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161314
5 Aug 2016Refused
CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING RECEPTION BUILDING TO HOLIDAY HOME (61SQ.M)
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160878
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: Wexford Slobs And Harbour 000712
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Grange Big.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Grange Big.
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 Grange Big, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3134 (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 Grange Big with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Grange Big · An Ghráinseach Mhór
- Area
- 449,699 m² (44.97 ha, 111.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rosslare, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Rosslare, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,234 people lived in 807 households in the Rosslare electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 52% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bearlough, Drinagh Intake, Grange Little, Lake Big, Rosslare Intake, Walsheslough, Whitehouse
- Placenames
- Grange Big 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.