Fence

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fence, from 551 m² to 70,519 m² (7.05 ha, 17.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Fence 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.

• 22 May 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of 4 no. 2 storey 4 bedroom detached

  Permission, 4 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230559

• 13 Nov 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING (A) PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS TOT HE APPROVED PERM

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191511

• 20 Aug 2019N/a

  A) PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS TO THE APPROVED PERMISSION 20120002 CONSISTING OF

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191174

• 10 Jul 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING:- (A) ALTERATIONS TO THE APPROVED PERMISSION

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190985

• 2 Feb 2018Refused

  PERMISSION FOR (A) ALTERATIONS TO THE APPROVED PERMISSION 20120002 CONSISTING OF

  Retention, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20180115

• 28 Mar 2017Granted (unconditional)

  (A) THE REFURBISHMENT OF 3 EXISTING BARNS, KNOWN AS BARN 1, BARN 2 AND BARN 3 F

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20120002

• 10 Mar 2017Refused

  PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS TO THE APPROVED PERMISSION 20120002 CONSISTING OF THE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170291

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 Fence.

Recorded monuments

• WX053-006 Windmill
  Description

  This mill is situated on a level landscape, and has the date 1846 inscribed on the lintel of its E doorway. It was built by James Moran, a millwright who had trained in Holland, and he made and installed all the wooden parts. This was one of about five working mills in Co. Wexford by 1911, but it was roofless by the 1930’s when it was acquired by Gerald Murphy, who replaced damaged parts of the machinery with iron parts from Ballyfane windmill (WX053-080----) and had the building re-thatched. This care allowed it to continue working until 1936 and ensured it survived intact into the 1950s, by which time it was owned by Michael Myler, a nephew of Mr Murphy (Bowie 1974). As the last intact windmill in the country it was conserved as a National Monument in the 1950s (Tacumshane Windmill). (Harbison 1970, 249). This is a tapering tower (ext. diam. c. 6m) of three storeys with walls that taper with height (Wth at base c. 0.85m; Wth at top c. 0.4m). It has opposing doorways at E and W, and three floors. The joists of the first floor are set directly into the wall, but those of the second floor rest on a rebate. The cap was turned manually, and the two pairs of millstones on the first floor were under-driven. The remains of the corn-drying kiln are nearby. (O’Sullivan c. 1975). This is a National Monument in state guardianship: No. 457. See the attached view from E 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: 25 March, 2014

• WX053-007 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is located at the side of the road at Faythe cross-roads in Tacumshin village. This is a rectangular block of granite (dims 0.96m x 0.76m; H 0.67m) with a single basin (diam. 0.2m; D 0.15m). There are two shallow depressions on the stone (diam. 6cm: D 1 2cm) on either side of the basin. 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: 25 March, 2014

Architectural heritage

• Mill (wind), 1845–1850 · National interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay three-stage tapering windmill, dated 1846, on a circular plan. In use, 1901. Disused, 1908-30. Repaired, 1930. Closed, 1936. Disused, 1940. Restored, 1953-73. Chicken wire-covered conical straw thatch roof with lead-capped exposed hazel lattice stretchers to apex having exposed steel scallops, timber boarded sail house with timber sails, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed steel scallops. Limewashed roughcast coursed rubble stone battered walls. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings including inscribed rough hewn timber beam lintels ("1846") framing timber boarded doors. Square-headed window openings (upper stages) with limewashed rough hewn shallow sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing fixed-pane timber fittings. Interior including (first stage): meal floor with stone flagged floor; (second stage): stone floor with timber boarded floor on timber joists; and (third stage): dust floor with timber boarded floor on timber joists. Set in landscaped grounds.

• Saint Catherine's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1795–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, dated 1797, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (west) front. "Improved", 1858, producing present composition. Stabilised, 1971. Renovated, 1989, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), lichen-covered clay ridge tiles with rendered, ruled and lined buttressed gabled bellcote to apex to entrance (west) front framing cast-iron bell, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered stepped eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth with paired cement rendered battered buttresses. Lancet window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Lancet window opening to entrance (west) front with concrete sill, and concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fitting. Interior including vestibule (west); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors; full-height interior with timber panelled choir gallery (west) on paired cast-iron pillars, tessellated "quarry" tile central aisle between Maltese Cross-detailed timber pews, Gothic-style timber stations between frosted glass windows with pair of stained glass memorial windows (east), and encaustic tiled stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, 1989, with carpeted stepped "predella" supporting replacement timber altar table. Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast piers to perimeter having stepped capping supporting spear head-detailed wrought iron double gates.

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 Fence, about 1 in 20 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 Fence.

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

Name

Fence · An Fál

Area

193,732 m² (19.37 ha, 47.87 acres)

Civil parish

Tacumshin, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Tacumshin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

507 people lived in 204 households in the Tacumshin electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhiho, Ballymacane, Churchtown, Faythe, Millknock, Tacumshin

Placenames

Fence 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.