Clougheast

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clougheast, from 59 m² to 8,855 m² (0.89 ha, 2.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Clougheast 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.

• 28 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of modifications and extension to

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250929

• 8 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission 20220481 for

  Permission consequent, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221483

• 27 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for alterations to elevations of proposed dwelling from those origina

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220553

• 12 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)

  Outline permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Outline permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220481

• 11 Jun 2021Refused

  Permission for the construction of 6 no. detached houses and connection to exist

  Permission, 6 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210915

• 5 May 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced two storey dwelling house and do

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210680

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 Clougheast.

Recorded monuments

• WX053-031 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  A hachured feature (diam. c. 30m) is marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and it is situated on a gentle N-facing slope. A rath was listed at Clougheast by Mac Leighim (1920, 136-7) and it was described in 1940 as a slightly raised area (diam. c. 80 feet (c. 25m) that was known locally as a rath (OSFM). It was removed in the 1980s. An area of stunted growth (diam. c. 20m) is visible in a cereal crop at ground level, and it is visible as a similar feature on aerial photographs (MM (28) 11-14), but it cannot be distinguished on digital aerial photographs (WX053-091_1 to _3) from 2006. Rath (WX053-091----) is c. 100m to the W, and rath (WX053-092----) is c. 130m to the SE. 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: 21 March, 2014

• WX053-032001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  The Codd family of Clougheast are a branch of the Codds of Castletown Carne (WX053-027----), but the point of divergence is not clear. The name of the townland is derived from the Irish ‘clogh easka’ – a stone water-channel. In 1600 Jasper, the son of James Codd of Cloheske, was a minor, and in 1625 he possessed the castle and 120 acres in Clogheast and 60 acres in Churchtown (Cavanagh 1911, 256). According to the Book of Survey and Distribution (1660s) James Codd owned 190 acres at Clogheast, Crossland, Loghinsheare and Churchtown (Simington 1953, 305), and this was confirmed to Edmond Waddy in 1666 as part of an estate of 195 acres in Carne parish (Hore 1921, 49). This tower house (ext. dims 8.7m N-S; c. 7m E-W) of five floors and an attic survives complete to the stepped crenellations. It has good quoins and the walls are battered at the base. The pointed entrance doorway (Wth 0.81m; H 1.78m) of dressed stone towards the W end of N the wall is protected by machicolation on the parapet, a portcullis with an internal door, and a murder-hole inside the door. From the lobby a pointed doorway (Wth 0.81m; H 1.7m) leads to the ground floor (int. dims 5.12m E-W; 3.68m N-S) which has an antechamber (int. dims 1.6m E-W; 0.98m N-S); H 1.16m) at the NE angle with no visible features, and double-splayed loops in embrasures on the E (Wth 0.08m; H 0.51m), S (H 0.58m) and W (H 0.61m) walls, that in the E wall having a hanging eye for a shutter. From the lobby the stairs rise in the N wall and turn onto the E wall for two steps to where a pointed doorway (Wth 0.7m; H 1.62m) enters the first floor under the E-W vault. This floor was supported on corbels in the N and S walls and there is an antechamber (int. dims 4.75m E-W; 0.95m N-S) at the W end of the N wall, which controls the defensive features around the entrance doorway. An L-shaped antechamber at the SW angle is probably a garderobe chamber, which is entered from the embrasure of the window in the W wall. The stairs continue to rise in the E wall to the second floor (int. dims 6.05m E-W; 5.4m N-S) over the vault, which is entered by a pointed doorway (Wth 0.71m ;H 1.73m) at the S end of the E wall and has corbels to support the ceiling (H 2.17m) in the N and S walls. There are rectangular slit windows (Wth 0.17-18m; H 0.8-1.02m), each with a hanging eye for a shutter and in its own ledge at the back of an embrasure (Wth 1.57-1.85m; H 2.05-2.14m; D 0.7-1.33), on the S, W and N walls. There is a fireplace (destroyed) in the N wall, and lintelled antechambers at the N end of the E wall (int. dims 2.95m N-S; 0.91m E-W; H 1.54m), and at the centre of the W wall (int. dims 2.28m N-S; 0.85m E-W; H 1.95m). There is a garderobe chamber in the W wall which is entered at S from the window embrasure, while the chamber in the S wall (int. dims 2.63m E-W; 0.88m N-S; H 2m) is entered by doorways from the window embrasure to the W and from the main chamber. This chamber gives access to an oubliette or hidden chamber (int. dims 2.7m E-W; c. 1.3m N-S; H 1.6m) beneath floor in the thickness of the vault. The mural stairs rise in the S wall to the third floor which is entered by a lintelled doorway (Wth 0.7m; H 1.74m) towards the E end of the S wall. This floor has a garderobe chamber in the W wall, and a slit window in its own embrasure on each wall, but the window on the E wall has two lights and a square hood moulding. There is a fireplace of dressed granite on the N wall, and the ceiling is supported on corbels in the N and S walls. The mural stairs continue to rise westwards in the S wall to the fourth floor, which is entered by a lintelled doorway (Wth 0.7m; H 1.71m) at the W end of the S wall. The only features on this floor are two slit windows in the E wall and one in the S, and corbels in the N and S walls to support the ceiling. There is a light in the S wall outside the entrance doorway, and around the corner in the W wall is a gallery or passage (dims 4.35m N-S: 0.82m; H 2.15m) with steps rising at its N. At the top of the steps a lintelled doorway (Wth 0.6m; H 1.65m) at the NW angle gives access to the attic, which has gables rising over the E and W walls. The wall-walk and battlements survive complete with musket-loops in the merlons at the SE and SW angles and on the W wall. There is a look-out (int. dims 1.9m N-S; 1.39m E-W) over the stairs housing at the NW angle, accessed by steps on the inner face of the parapet of the W wall. The look-out is entered by a lintelled doorway (Wth 0.58m; H 1.72m) and has two musket-loops on each wall. There is no evidence that there was ever a bawn, although the tower house is at the NE angle of a farmyard, which might have been developed on the perimeter of one. The shell of a two-storey, four-bay house (int. dims 13m N-S; 5.5m E-W), which appears to be 18th century in date, is attached to the N of the tower house, but a musket-loop and a slit window on the W wall at the ground floor indicates that it might retain masonry from an older structure. The castle and house were restored as a dwelling, and archaeological excavation (04E0822) in the interior of the tower house reduced the disturbed infill to below the natural, but some of the original packed clay floor (D 0.05-0.1m) survived in the SE part of the chamber. Some late medieval and post-medieval sherds were recovered (Sweetman 2007). See the attached section of the Down Survey parish map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725) 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 revision: 21 March, 2014

• WX053-032002 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  There is no evidence that there was ever a bawn at Clougheast tower house (WX053-032001-), although it is at the NE angle of a farmyard, which might have been developed on the perimeter of one. The shell of a two-storey, four-bay house (int. dims 13m N-S; 5.5m E-W), which appears to be 18th century in date, is attached to the N of the tower house but a musket-loop and a slit window on the W wall at the ground floor indicates that it might retain masonry from an older structure. The castle and house were restored as a dwelling in 2004. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 21 March, 2014

• WX053-055 Windmill
  Description

  A windmill is marked on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map of Forth and the parish map of Carne at Clougheast (4). According to the Book of Survey and Distribution (1660s) it would have been owned by James Codd of Clough East (WX053-032001-) c. 1640 (Simington 1953, 305). An operating windmill is marked as on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map but it is described as disused on the 1940 ed. It is situated on a fairly level landscape. This is an ivy-covered cylindrical tower (ext. diam. 4.6m; int. diam. 3.1m) of three storeys surviving to a height of c. 5m. There is only one doorway (Wth 0.62; H 1.72m) at E with a window (Wth 0.5m; H 0.9m), possibly adapted from a doorway, opposite it at W. Inside the W doorway steps projecting from the inner face of the wall on the S side rise to the first floor. The joists of the upper floors were set directly into the walls. A window can be discerned at the first floor over the E doorway, but other features might be obscured. See the attached section of the Down Survey parish map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725) 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: 21 March, 2014

• WX053-079 Burnt mound
  Description

  Situated on a gentle N-facing slope. An area of broken and burnt stones (dims c. 12m x c. 7m) in a black clay matrix is visible when the area is ploughed. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 21 March, 2014

• WX053-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight N-facing slope. The cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 50m N-S; c. 50m E-W) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (28) 11-14) and on digital aerial photographs (WX053-091_1 to _3) taken in 2006. The straight side is at S parallel with a field bank which is c. 10m distant. No entrance is visible. The rath (WX053-031----) is c. 100m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 March, 2104

• WX053-092 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a slight N-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on digital aerial photograph (WX053-092_1) taken in 2006. The rath (WX053-031----) is c. 130m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 March, 2014

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay (two-bay deep) three-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, begun 1805, on a rectangular plan with three-bay full-height rear (west) elevation. Incomplete, 1903. Completed, 2003-4, producing present composition. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in red brick Running bond chimney stacks having red brick Running bond capping, central rooflight to front (east) pitch with paired central rooflights to rear (west) pitch, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber box eaves. Part repointed coursed rubble stone walls on battered base with flush quoins to corners. Pointed segmental-headed central door opening with flagged threshold, and red brick voussoirs framing timber boarded door. Paired pointed segmental-headed flanking window openings with shallow sills, and red brick voussoirs framing four-over-four timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (first floor) with shallow sills, timber mullions, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows having two-over-two sidelights. Square-headed window openings (top floor) with shallow sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing four-over-four timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.

• Clougheast Cottage, house, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey thatched house, built 1826, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting glazed porch to ground floor; three-bay two-storey rear (west) elevation. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Reroofed, 2001. Chicken wire-covered hipped thatch roof with exposed hazel lattice stretchers to decorative raised ridge having exposed scallops, paired cement rendered red brick Running bond central chimney stacks having chamfered stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Limewashed roughcast battered walls; slate hung surface finish to side (south) elevation. Square-headed central door opening into house with concealed dressings framing timber boarded double doors. Square-headed window openings with limewashed sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; reception room (south) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters; reception room (north) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters; 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 perpendicular to road with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting timber gate.

• Mill (wind), 1600–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding singe-bay three-stage cylindrical windmill tower, extant 1840, on a circular plan. Disused, 1911. Now in ruins. Roof now missing. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble "Old Red Sandstone" battered walls retaining sections of lime rendered or roughcast surface finish. Square-headed opposing door openings with rough hewn granite thresholds, and rough hewn lintels with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings (upper stages) with rough hewn rubble stone flush sills, and rough hewn lintels with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. 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

At the centre of the townland of Clougheast, about 1 in 5 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

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

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

Name

Clougheast · Cloch Hoiste

Area

354,508 m² (35.45 ha, 87.6 acres)

Civil parish

Carn, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Lady's Island, the unit of the census

Census 2022

625 people lived in 249 households in the Lady's Island electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballask, Ballygarra, Ballysheen, Castletown, Churchtown, Crosslands, Loginsherd, Tedwards

Placenames

Clougheast 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.