Scar

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scar, from 20 m² to 330,924 m² (33.09 ha, 81.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Scar 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.

• 9 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and combined

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220778

• 16 Feb 2022Refused

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house & combined garage

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220197

• 30 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHEDS AND REAR ANNEX, CONSTRUCTION OF

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190581

• 29 Jan 2019Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE DEMOLITION OF EXHISTING SHEDS AND REAR ANNEX CONSTRUCTION OF

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190100

• 15 Jan 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHEDS AND REAR ANNEX, CONSTRUCTION

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190034

• 13 Mar 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180298

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 Scar.

Recorded monuments

• WX046-007001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  References to the castle of Scar date from the 17th century when it was held by the Bryan family (Jeffrey 1979, 87 8). The castle and 180 acres at Skarr were held by Nicholas Bryan in 1640 (Simington 1953, 145). He was awarded 80 acres in Connaught in 1656 (Hore 1900-11, vol. 5, 504). The castle is situated towards the top of the S-facing slope of a broad, low hill. This is a rectangular tower (ext. dims 8.85m N-S; 7.25m E-W) of four floors surviving to the wall-walk (H 10.4m). It has granite quoins and a base-batter on the walls. A lintelled doorway (Wth 1.19; H 1.98m) towards the N end of the E wall lacks machicolation which may be destroyed, but it is protected by a murder-hole in the lobby. From the lobby a lintelled doorway (Wth 1.06m; H 2.04m) leads to the ground floor (int. dims 5.4m E-W; 4.35m N-S), which has a blocked embrasure in the N wall, two blocked embrasures in the W wall, and a blocked embrasure at the W end of the S wall. A lintelled doorway at the E end of the S wall appears to be original but is probably secondary and would have led to the attached house rather than the outside. A secondary doorway has also been inserted into an embrasure at the S end of the E wall. There is no evidence of corbels to support the wooden ceiling, but numerous joists were set directly into the E and W walls, probably representing post-abandonment use. Steps intrude into the entrance lobby from the mural stairs which rises in the E and N walls to the lintelled doorway (Wth 0.58m; H 1.78m) of the first floor under the N-S vault. There is a doorway in the S wall, which would have led to the first floor of the attached house and which is probably expanded from a window. The mural stairs continue to the second floor over the vault (int. dims 5.7m N-S; 4.95m E-W), which is entered through a lintelled doorway (Wth 0.67m; H 1.8m) at the W end of the N wall. The E wall has a blocked and inserted window at N, a robbed fireplace at the centre, and a destroyed window at S. The S and W walls have blocked windows with the remains of seats, while the remains of a garderobe chamber (int. dims 1.14m x 0.66m) are the NW angle. There is a slopstone on the W wall over a hollow structure (ext. dims 2.9m N-S; 0.9m E-W; H 3.4m) attached to the W wall at the ground floor that may have collected the effluent. Corbels to support the ceiling survive in each wall, except the S. A linetelled doorway (Wth 0.72m; H 1.95m) at the E end of the N wall leads to a mural stairs in the N wall, and a lintelled doorway (Wth 0.62m; H 2.08m) at the centre of the N wall gives access to the third floor, which has damaged or blocked window embrasures with seats in the S and W walls, and two damaged window embrasures in the E wall, but there is no evidence of a fireplace on this floor. The stairs continue in the N wall to the destroyed battlements. Offset to the W (by 1.65m) of the tower house on the S side is a two or three storey fortified house (ext. dims 16.52m N-S; c. 8.05m E-W), of which only the W wall (H c. 6m) with a base-batter, and a part of the S wall with a projecting chimney flue (ext. dims c. 0.5m N-S; 2.35m) survive. The W wall appears not to have been bonded to the tower house, and the house was revamped at some stage as the walls are severely altered with brick. Some windows in the W wall, which are now blocked, are inserted. There is evidence of three lights on the ground floor, but the only original and complete feature is a rectangular window with a chamfered surround. There is no evidence of a bawn, although a stone-lined circular well (diam. c. 0.6m; D c. 5m) that is now covered is NE of the tower house and may have provided water for it. 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: 20 August, 2013

• WX046-007002 House - medieval
  Description

  References to the castle of Scar date from the 17th century when it was held by the Bryan family (Jeffrey 1979, 87-8). The castle and 180 acres at Skarr where held by Nicholas Bryan in 1640 (Simington 1953, 145). He was awarded 80 acres in Connaught in 1656 (Hore 1900-11, vol. 5, 504). The castle is situated towards the top of the S-facing slope of a broad, low hill. Offset to the W (by 1.65m) of the Bryan tower house (WX046-007001-) on the S side is a two or three storey fortified house (ext. dims 16.52m N-S; c. 8.05m E-W), of which only the W wall (H c. 6m) with a base-batter and a part of the S wall with a projecting chimney flue (ext. dims c. 0.5m N-S; 2.35m E-W) survive. The W wall appears not to have been bonded to the tower house and the house was revamped at some stage as the walls are severely altered with brick. Some windows, which are now blocked, are inserted. There is evidence of three lights on the ground floor, but the only original and complete feature is a rectangular window with a chamfered surround. There is no evidence of a bawn, although a stone-lined circular well (diam. c. 0.6m; D c. 5m) that is now covered is NE of the tower house and may have provided water for it. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 August, 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Scar, 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 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 Scar.

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

Name

Scar · Scar

Area

1,594,468 m² (159.45 ha, 394 acres)

Civil parish

Duncormick, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Kilcowan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

525 people lived in 204 households in the Kilcowan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Croase, Edwardstown, Graiguesallagh, Knocktown, Rochestown, Russellstown, Scurlogebush, St. Tenants

Placenames

Scar 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.