Borleagh Demesne

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Borleagh Demesne, from 620 m² to 92,622 m² (9.26 ha, 22.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Borleagh Demesne 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 May 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220588

• 4 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for 1) revised location of entrance and 2) revised location of efflue

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220132

• 19 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permisson for development which will consist of the construction of:

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201380

• 16 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and all associated site and

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201354

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 Borleagh Demesne.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Borleagh Demesne.

Architectural heritage

• Borleagh House, country house, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey double-pile over basement country house, under construction 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; three-bay full-height rear (west) elevation. Vacant, 1901. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1963. Resold, 1972. Resold, 1986. "Restored", 1995. Resold, 1996. For sale, 2003. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan abutting hipped slate roof (west) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge having concrete capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on overhanging timber boarded eaves having timber consoles. Part creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on fine roughcast base. Square-headed central door opening approached by flight of three cut-granite steps with concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings ("cheeks") with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane timber fittings. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (west) elevation centred on round-headed window opening (top floor), cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows centred on six-over-six timber sash window having fanlight. Interior including (ground floor): vestibule; square-headed door opening into hall with glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight; hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, Ionic columnar screen, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on plasterwork ceiling rose; drawing room (south) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, camber- or segmental-headed niches centred on cut-white marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on plasterwork ceiling rose; drawing room (north) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters, camber- or segmental-headed niches centred on cut-black marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on plasterwork ceiling rose; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set in landscaped grounds.

• Borleagh House, walled garden, 1842–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden, extant 1905, on a square plan with part creeper- or ivy-covered stepped boundary wall to perimeter having cut-granite coping; red brick Running bond surface finish to courtyard elevations. Now disused. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Borleagh House.

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 Borleagh Demesne, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Borleagh Demesne.

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 Borleagh Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Borleagh Demesne · Diméin an Bhairr Léith

Area

679,415 m² (67.94 ha, 167.89 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcavan, and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Limerick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,056 people lived in 341 households in the Limerick electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughullen, Ballyconlore, Borleagh, Knocklahaun, Limerick, Tomathone Lower

Placenames

Borleagh Demesne 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.