Monbay Upper

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monbay Upper, from 1,960 m² to 222,612 m² (22.26 ha, 55.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Monbay Upper 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.

• 18 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a road underpass for agricultural purposes

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240690

• 6 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of alterations and extension to dwelling

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240247

• 20 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221398

• 12 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associa

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220931

• 21 Apr 2022Refused

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associa

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220519

• 11 Mar 2022N/a

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220313

• 4 Jul 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A BUNGALOW WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE UNDER ROOF

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160757

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 Monbay Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WX006-041 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked as a standing stone only on 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a S-facing slope c. 300m E of a col between hills that rise over it c. 600m to the SW and c. 500m to the NE. It was described in 1940 as 'three feet high (H c. 0.9m)' but enclosed in bushes (OSFM). The exact position is not marked, but it may have been in the NW-SE field bank and townland boundary between Monbay Upper and Shrule. The holy well (WX006-042----) is nearby. 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: 21 November, 2012

• WX006-042 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked only on 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a covered Holy well, and situated on a S-facing slope c. 300m E of a col between hills that rise over it c. 600m to the SW and c. 500m to the NE. It was recorded locally (OSFM 1940) that the well had been blessed by a Fr. Vladimir Pecherin (1807-1885) and had a cure for toothache, although a a name for the well is not mentioned. Fr. Pecherin was born in the Ukraine and trained as a Russian Orthodox priest. In 1835 he was appointed professor of Greek language and antiquities at Moscow University, but he left the University and Russia the following year. In 1840 he converted to Catholicism and joined the Redemptorist Order at Clapham in London. In 1862 he left the Order and moved to Dublin where he served as a chaplain at the Mater Hospital and entered various controversies. His memoirs were virulently critical of the Russian government and the Roman Catholic church. For Fr. Pecherin see this web-page accessed on 15 May, 2014 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Pecherin The well is a natural spring beside a section of rock outcrop (H c. 1m) and the stream runs SE into a boggy area (dims c. 40m NW-SE; c. 10m NE-SW) called Bohernisighe – bother na Shee, the fairies road, which is part of a laneway that ran ENE c. 140m to a house that was marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. There is no evidence of veneration and there is no local knowledge of it now. The standing stone (WX006-041----) is nearby. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 November, 2012 Amended: 15 May, 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Monbay Upper, 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 high, 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 Monbay Upper.

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

Name

Monbay Upper · Moing Bheithígh Uachtarach

Area

1,133,744 m² (113.37 ha, 280.15 acres)

Civil parish

Rossminoge, and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Rossminoge, the unit of the census

Census 2022

683 people lived in 219 households in the Rossminoge electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyconran, Brideswell Little, Clonamona Upper, Monbay Lower, Shrule

Placenames

Monbay Upper 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.