Eardownes Great

183 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Eardownes Great, from 4 m² to 66,268 m² (6.63 ha, 16.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Eardownes Great 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.

• 26 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the demolition of two dilapidated

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251059

• 11 Jun 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of a porch extension to the side entrance

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250710

• 30 May 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house,

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250642

• 14 May 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed change of use of existing toilet block to community

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250555

• 13 Aug 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a new farm store building within the curtilag

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240970

• 23 Jul 2024N/a

  Permission for the construction of a new farm store building within the

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240877

• 28 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of alterations to an existing entrance and

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240341

• 19 Sept 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, garage and all

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20231115

• 29 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for Retention of change of use from a Takeaway to residential

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230746

• 7 Jun 2023N/a

  Permission for the retention of change of use from takeaway to residential

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230642

• 16 Sept 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of external changes to an existing dwelling

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221242

• 12 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, detached garage

  Outline permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220480

• 16 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for Retention of the following: front porch, alterations to front

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210368

• 13 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210033

• 22 Dec 2020N/a

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house with associated s

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201613

• 11 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for 1) The removal of old farm sheds and redundant slurry storage

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201535

• 14 Oct 2020Refused

  Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house (Log Cab

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201185

• 21 Sept 2020Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20150752

• 14 Aug 2019Refused

  PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE.

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191140

• 6 Aug 2019N/a

  PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191117

• 29 Jul 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR AN EXTENSION TO AN EXSITING DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTING OF THE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191082

• 2 Jul 2019N/a

  PERMISSION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTING OF THE ERECT

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190930

• 10 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190467

• 20 Feb 2019Refused

  PERMISSION FOR 1) THE ERECTION OF A MARIAN GROTTO AND CANDLEABRA AT AN EXISTING

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190219

• 6 Feb 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR 1) ERECTION OF A MARIAN GROTTO AND CANDLEABRA AT AN EXISTING

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190151

The 25 most recent of 36 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lady's Island Lake SAC 000704
• Special Protection Area: Lady's Island Lake SPA 004009
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lady's Island Lake 000704

Recorded monuments

• WX053-015 Bawn
  Description

  Situated at the extreme N end of what was once a triangular island (max. dims c. 700m N-S; c. 220m E-W at S) with the apex at N in Lady’s Island Lough (dims c. 3.5km NNE-SSW; c. 500m-1.5km E-W). A wall (surviving L c. 6m) runs NW from the gatehouse (WX053-014002-) and a wall (surviving L c. 13m; max. H 3.3m) runs SE from the tower house (WX053-014001-), effectively securing the whole island to the S. About 50m NE of the tower house, at the apex of the island is a single tower that has tilted severely to the N and almost collapsed. This feature (ext. dims 5.1m NW-SE; 3.6m NE-SW) has a base-batter on the NE and NW walls, and the remains of the doorway is c. 2m above ground level on the SE side with the tie-stones of a wall beneath it. The ground floor has a garderobe chute on the NW wall that emerges on the outer face of the wall 2m below, and the only other ground floor feature is a cross-loop on the NE wall commanding the causeway (WX053-016----) that connected the island with the mainland, c. 90m distant. The causeway was known as the togher (road), and provided the name Lough Togher to the lake (Hore 1862, 87). The first floor of the tower was supported on corbels in the NE wall, and presumably on the destroyed SW wall. It has two slit windows on the NE wall with a barrel vault rising over them. A photograph from c. 1900 in the Lawrence Collection in NLI (LROY 04780) shows a wall, perhaps not original, running NW from the tower, effectively creating a bawn between the tower and the tower house (WX053-014001-) and gatehouse and their associated walls. Archaeological testing (00E0153) by J. Wren outside the surviving wall at its N end produced no related material (excavations. ie 2000:1063). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 April, 2014 Amended: 17/05/2021

• WX053-016 Causeway
  Description

  Lady’s Island was once a triangular island (max. dims c. 700m N-S; c. 220m E-W at S) with the apex at the N end in Lady’s Island Lough (dims c. 3.5km NNE-SSW; c. 500m-1.5km E-W), a lake that was called Lough Togher in the 17th century (Hore 1862, 62, 87). Salt water seeps through the bar separating the lake from the sea and the bar is sometimes breached, so the lake is a semi salt-water lagoon. The causeway connected the mainland with the island and was the only access for pilgrims and others. On the island side the tower house (WX053-014001-) and its attached gatehouse (WX053-014002-) control access to the church (WX053-013001-), but there must have been a gateway associated with the tower on the N side of the bawn (WX053-015----), that is at the S end of the causeway from the lake-shore c. 100m to the N. The nature of the causeway is not known, but it was probably a natural shingle spit. Today it is hidden beneath a grass sward (Wth c. 100m NE-SW), and the shore has extended out to meet the island. When the water-level in the lake is high the causeway can be seen as a raised bank (Wth c. 10m; H c. 0.5-1m) beneath a gravel roadway. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 25 March, 2014

• WX053-017 Cist
  Description

  Situated on a W-facing slope. A rectangular cist (int. dims 0.73m NE-SW; 0.61m NW-SE; D 0.4m) was apparently empty when it was discovered in 1961 and investigated by NMI (Waddell 1990, 155). It was composed of six slabs (T 0.12-0.28), there being two on the long sides, and there were two capstones that were removed in ploughing. (Ó Ríordáin 2011) 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: 24 March, 2014

• WX053-018 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape on the E shore of Lady’s Island Lough, with the lake’s edge c. 75m to the W. A well is marked on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering on both as ‘Lady’s Well’. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 it was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and was part of the pilgrimage (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 299), and according to Mac Leighim (1920, 133-4), quoting an elderly resident, the pattern was held on the feast of the Assumption, August 15, and the pilgrimage route ended at the well. The well was described as being coffin-shaped, but it is now rectangular (dims 1.2m N-S; 1.1m E-W; D 0.1m) with a small shelf at the SW angle for offerings. A concrete wall (Wth 0.2m; H 1.2m) surrounds it on three sides, but the E side is open with a turn-style gate and there are two steps leading down to the water. Archaeological monitoring (03E1956) c. 100m to the NE failed to recover any related features (Purcell 2006, 2007). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 25 March, 2014

• WX053-019 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a standing stone, it is situated just off the top of a slight SW facing slope and it is now within a cemetery. This is a granite stone with a subrectangular cross section at the base (dims. 0.75m x 0.06 0.46m) which is aligned ENE-WSW, although the top is twisted to align NNE-SSW, and the top and W side of the stone have been damaged. (max. H 1.43m). Archaeological monitoring (03E1956) c. 50m to SW failed to recover any related material (Purcell 2007). (Moore 1996, 13, no. 102). Updated by: Michael Moore Revised date of upload: 25 March, 2014

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, church/chapel, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1863-4; dated 1863; opened 1864, on a rectangular plan comprising seven-bay double-height nave opening into seven-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles centred on single-bay full-height apse (north) on an engaged half-octagonal plan; single-bay four-stage tower to entrance (south) front supporting broach spire. Restored, 2002. Pitched slate roof opening into half-octagonal slate roof (north); lean-to slate roofs (side aisles), clay ridge tiles, copper-covered coping to gables on cut-red sandstone kneelers, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-red sandstone "Cavetto" cornices retaining cast-iron downpipes. Cut-red sandstone banded tuck pointed snecked rock faced granite walls on cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on plinth with margined rock faced granite ashlar buttresses to corners having cut-red sandstone "slated" coping. Pointed quatrefoil window openings (clerestorey), cut-red sandstone block-and-start surrounds having concave reveals with pointed hood mouldings on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Cusped lancet window openings (side aisles) with cut-red sandstone sills, and cut-red sandstone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Paired cusped lancet window openings (north), cut-red sandstone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window openings (north) with cut-red sandstone Y-mullions, and cut-red sandstone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (south) front with six cut-granite steps, cut-red sandstone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing timber boarded double doors. Pointed-arch window opening (second stage) with cut-red sandstone mullions, and cut-red sandstone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Paired cusped lancet openings (bell stage), cut-red sandstone block-and-start surrounds having engaged colonette-detailed reveals with hood mouldings on monolithic label stops framing louvered fittings. Interior including vestibule (south); full-height interior restored, 2002, with arcaded choir gallery on an engaged half-octagonal plan in pointed-arch alcove, tiled central aisle between cruciform-detailed timber pews, pointed-arch arcades on polished Midleton marble pillars with hood mouldings on portrait label stops, groin vaulted ceiling with moulded ribs on polished Midleton marble engaged colonettes on beaded "Cavetto" corbels, cut-veined white marble stepped dais to sanctuary (north) with Gothic-style high altar below stained glass memorial windows (----), stepped daises to side altars with Classical-style altars below stained glass memorial windows (----), Gothic-style timber panelled confessional boxes (side aisles), paired timber stations between stained glass memorial windows (----), and groin vaulted ceilings with moulded ribs on beaded "Cavetto" corbels. Set in relandscaped grounds.

• Ceann Tuí, farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey projecting porch. Reroofed, 2004. Part chicken wire-covered hipped oat thatch roof on a T-shaped plan centred on hipped oat thatch roof with bobbin-ended rope twist above paired exposed hazel stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered off-central chimney stack having red brick stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls to front (north) elevation; roughcast surface finish (remainder). Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road with limewashed cylindrical piers to perimeter having shallow conical capping supporting looped flat iron gate.

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 Eardownes Great, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Eardownes Great · Iardún Mór

Area

694,697 m² (69.47 ha, 171.66 acres)

Civil parish

Ladysisland, 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

Ballare, Ballycushlane Little, Birdstown, Buncarrick, Eardownes Little, Lady's Island, Nineteenacres, Racecourse, St. Awaries, St. Iberius

Placenames

Eardownes Great 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.