Ahare
Ahare is a townland in the civil parish of Kilgorman, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Áth Aeir.
Parcel 378196
- Area
- 1,203 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ahare
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 129.3 ha
- 320 acres
- Land parcels
- 66
- registered freehold, median 2,004 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ahare, from 78 m² to 328,221 m² (32.82 ha, 81.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ahare 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 Jun 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of (1) alterations to dwelling, (2) retention of
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260825
17 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of steel framed domestic garage and store
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251330
11 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for A) the construction of an agricultural storage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250977
20 May 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220671
28 May 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associa
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210835
25 May 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associa
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210802
14 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associa
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210539
19 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR (1) CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN (FROM PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191690
20 Dec 2018Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PROPOSED DWELLING, NEW VEHICULAR
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181774
20 Dec 2018Refused
PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT AT AHARE, THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF A
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181773
15 Oct 2018N/a
DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF AN ALTERNATIVE HOUSE DESIGN, RELOCATION OF
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181417
15 Oct 2018N/a
DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF AN ALTERNATIVE HOUSE DESIGN, RELOCATION OF
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181421
22 May 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO UPGRADE THE EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AR
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180683
10 May 2018N/a
PERMISSION TO UPGRADE THE EXISTING WATSEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AR
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180614
30 Apr 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180566
23 Apr 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180524
26 Jun 2017N/a
PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT AT AHARE, CASTLETOWN, GOREY, CO. WEXFORD.THE DEVELOPM
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170820
26 Jun 2017N/a
PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT WHICH WILL CONSIST OF AN ALTERNATIVE HOUSE DESIGN, RE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170819
13 Jun 2016Granted (conditional)
ERECT A STEEL FRAMED EXTENSION TO MY EXISTING STEEL FRAMED AGRICULTURAL SHED CON
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160648
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilgorman River Marsh 001834
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ahare.
Architectural heritage
- Ahare Park, farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1840, on an L-shaped plan originally three-bay two-storey on a rectangular plan; two-bay two-storey (south) or single-bay two-storey (north) side elevations. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1915. Extended, 1925, producing present composition. Sold, 1986. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, rendered central chimney stack on axis with ridge having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on roughcast eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and cut-granite block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows without horns; eight-over-eight (ground floor) or four-over-eight (first floor) timber sash windows to side elevations. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase on a dog leg plan with turned timber balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in turned timber newels, and carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ahare, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ahare.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ahare with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ahare · Áth Aeir
- Area
- 1,293,103 m² (129.31 ha, 319.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgorman, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Kilgorman, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 890 people lived in 297 households in the Kilgorman electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynacree, Clondarragh, Clones Upper, Kilbegnet, Kilgorman, Tincurragh, Tomnahealy Little
- Placenames
- Ahare 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.