Murntown Lower

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Murntown Lower, from 32 m² to 116,708 m² (11.67 ha, 28.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Murntown Lower 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.

• 16 Mar 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for proposed erection of alterations and extensions to an existing

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260321

• 11 Feb 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of an all-weather 3G pitch, sports wall and fencing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260163

• 22 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of an existing storage shed, boundary wall treatments

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251360

• 27 Mar 2025Refused

  Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced office building

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250347

• 6 Apr 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions incorporating

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230375

• 30 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a solar farm development which consists of the following:

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221589

• 3 Aug 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of 1 no fully serviced dwelling and

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221051

• 24 May 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a temporary retention of a mobile food van to serve hot and cold

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210800

• 4 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of altearations and extension to an

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201470

• 18 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention for alterations and extensions during construction and

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20201378

• 16 Jun 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, carport, domesti

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200638

• 17 Apr 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to amend the design of the approved development (Planning Reg Ref. 20

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200441

• 24 Sept 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO AN EXISTIN

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191315

• 26 Jul 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO AN

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191074

• 25 Mar 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE AND

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190371

• 4 Feb 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTING OF (A)

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190131

• 4 Feb 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO AN

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190132

• 12 Sept 2016Granted (conditional)

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161016

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 Murntown Lower.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Murntown Lower.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Catherine's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1837, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to entrance (west) front. "Improved", 1901. Renovated, 1910, with interior "improved". Renovated, 1987, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles with cut-granite Celtic Cross finial to apex to chancel (east), and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Gritdashed roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Lancet window openings with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Pointed-arch window opening to chancel (east) with cut-granite sill, and cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Tudor-headed opposing door openings (west) with cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Interior including vestibule (west) with cut-white marble wall monument (ob. 1858); pointed-arch door opening into nave with cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight; full-height interior with carpeted aisles between timber pews, timber boarded wainscoting supporting carved timber dado rail, paired Gothic-style timber stations between frosted glass memorial windows (undated), cut-limestone floor monument (ob. 1814), and carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, 1987, with Gothic-style timber panelled reredos below stained glass "East Window" (undated). Set in landscaped grounds.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Murntown Lower.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Murntown Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Murntown Lower · Baile Mhúráin Íochtarach

Area

351,081 m² (35.11 ha, 86.75 acres)

Civil parish

Kildavin, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Rathaspick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathaspick electoral division: 1,818 people in 634 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ablintown, Dennistown, Gorteenminoge Lower, Kildavin Lower, Milltown, Sallystown, Twentyacres

Placenames

Murntown Lower 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.