Growtown Upper

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Growtown Upper, from 259 m² to 291,952 m² (29.2 ha, 72.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Growtown Upper 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.

• 1 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention of slight alterations to elevations of dwelling and

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230200

• 9 Feb 2023N/a

  Permission for the retention of slight alterations to elevations of dwelling and

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230123

• 16 Jul 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF MINOR ALTERATIONS TO A DWELLING H

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180966

• 5 Jun 2018Refused

  PERMISSION SOUGHT FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180753

• 8 Jan 2018Refused

  TEN YEAR PERMISSION FOR A SOLAR FARM CONSISTING OF CIRCA 96,600 SQUARE METRES OF

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180012

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 Growtown Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WX036-046 Moated site
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of the NE-facing slope of a NE-SW ridge. This is a rectangular area in mixed wood (dims. 27m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by earthen banks (Wth 4m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.5m) with an external flat-bottomed moat (Wth of base 3-7m; ext. D 1.6m) and an outer bank (Wth c. 3m; ext. H c. 0.5m) on each side. There is an entrance (Wth 1.8m) through the inner bank and a causeway (Wth 4m) towards the W end of the S side. (Barry 1977, 221, WX 68) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 8 November, 2012

• WX036-091 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated towards the bottom of a N-facing slope. The vegetation mark in grass of a subrectangular or D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 30m NE-SW; c. 27m NW-SE defined by a single fosse is visible on iMaps (2022). It is also visible on MapGenie (1999-2003), and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached views from _02 MapGenie (1999-2003) and _03 iMAPs (2022) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 June 2023

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Growtown Upper.

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 Growtown Upper, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Growtown Upper.

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 Growtown Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Growtown Upper · Baile Gró Uachtarach

Area

1,357,512 m² (135.75 ha, 335.45 acres)

Civil parish

Coolstuff, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere West

Electoral division

Forth, the unit of the census

Census 2022

880 people lived in 289 households in the Forth electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintlea, Ballywether, Cools, Coolstuff, Coolteen, Crandonnell, Growtown Lower, Tomcool

Placenames

Growtown Upper 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.