Motabower

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Motabower, from 1,651 m² to 343,727 m² (34.37 ha, 84.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Motabower 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.

• 21 Jan 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a two-storey dwelling with services and domestic garage

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250061

• 21 Jan 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect an agricultural storage shed with ancillary works

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250059

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 Motabower.

Recorded monuments

• WX005-012001 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  According to Kinahan (1879-88, 158) on the N side of the E-W R725 road in Motabower there was a low circualar feature which was probably a rath as an underground chamber (WX005-012002-) was said to have been found on it. The location is marked on a fieldmap of the Geological Survey of Ireland, and a house is now on the site. 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: 29 February 2012

• WX005-012002 Souterrain
  Description

  According to Kinahan (1879-88, 158) on the N side of the E-W R725 road in Motabower there was a low circualar feature which was probably a rath (WX005-012001-) as an underground chamber was said to have been found on it c. 1845. The location is marked on a fieldmap of the Geological Survey of Ireland, and a house is now on the site. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 February, 2012

• WX005-015 Millstone quarry
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of a S and SE-facing slope. An area of bedrock is split and a loose portion (dims. 4.8m NE-SW; 1.8m NW-SE; H 1.4-1.8m) is supported on a sidestone (dims. 2m NE-SW; 0.3-0.5m NW-SE; H 1m) at SE and the bedrock itself at NW. It is possibly connected with the making of millstones. 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: 29 February 2012

• WX006-006 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the bottom of a SE-facing slope with a N-S stream c. 90m to the E. No feature is visible at ground level in pasture. It is conjoined with rath (WX006-007----), which is immediately to the N and which it may have served as an annexe. 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: 29 February 2013 Amended: 14 May, 2014

• WX006-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as small circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight shelf at the bottom of a SE-facing slope with a N-S stream c. 60m to the E. This is an oval, grass-covered area (dims. c. 32m E-W; c. 27m N-S) known locally as a raheen which is defined by a stone-clad earthen field bank (Wth c. 2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.5-1.8m) with an external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 5m) at E and low remains of a bank (Wth 5m; H 0.2m) at S and W. It is conjoined to enclosure (WX006-006----), which is immediately to the S. 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: 29 February 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Motabower, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Motabower · Móta Bodhar

Area

1,319,432 m² (131.94 ha, 326.04 acres)

Civil parish

Carnew, and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Monaseed, the unit of the census

Census 2022

725 people lived in 226 households in the Monaseed electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughnamaulmeen, Ballyellis, Baltyfarrell, Kennystown (Co. Wicklow), Knockbrandon Lower, Knockshaunfin, Park

Placenames

Motabower 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.