Gallagh

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gallagh, from 749 m² to 152,632 m² (15.26 ha, 37.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Gallagh 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.

• 6 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house domestic shed

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221311

• 11 Mar 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a new single storey dwelling, wastewater treatment system, soil p

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220316

• 19 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)

  permission for the erection a fully serviced dwelling and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211159

• 6 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of an extension to the side and rear of an existing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200266

• 16 Nov 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING HABITABLE DWELLING HOUSE AND FOR THE D

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161268

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 Gallagh.

Recorded monuments

• WX047-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 55m) bisected by a NE-SW roadway on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape. A D- shaped area (dims. 35m NE-SW; 11m NW-SE) defined by scarp (H 0.4m) and truncated by a NE-SW roadway on the SE side is the only visible remains of the monument. 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: 15 October, 2013

• WX052-009 Moated site
  Description

  Visible as an overgrown rectangular area on vertical aerial photographs (GSIAP: S 185? T 67), and situated on a level landscape. This is a rectangular area overgrown with mixed woodland (dims 37m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by earthen banks (Wth 2-3m; int. H 0.5 1m; ext. H 1.2-2.8m) with flat-bottomed outer fosses or moats (Wth of base 2-3m; ext. D 1.2-1.6m) on all sides except the W where a N-S stream is flowing, and there is water in the moat at N. 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: 18 February 2014

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1865–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1870-1, on a rectangular plan with two-bay two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1911. Undergoing "restoration", 2005. Replacement hipped slate roof with ridge tiles, paired cement rendered central chimney stacks having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered plinth with rusticated rendered piers to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of five cut-granite steps with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Paired square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings 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 unkempt grounds with roughcast piers to perimeter supporting looped 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 Gallagh, 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 Gallagh.

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

Name

Gallagh · Gallach

Area

736,557 m² (73.66 ha, 182.01 acres)

Civil parish

Kilturk, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Kilmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,469 people lived in 925 households in the Kilmore electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyseskin, Grayrobin, Moortown Great, Pollrane, Soughane, Tullabards Great, Tullabards Little

Placenames

Gallagh 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.