Toberfinnick
Toberfinnick is a townland in the civil parish of Artramon, barony of Shelmaliere East, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Tobar na Feannóige.
Parcel 382903
- Area
- 42,687 m² (4.27 ha, 10.55 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 53 m².
- 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
- Toberfinnick
Planning applications on this parcel
2 Aug 2023Refused
Permission for development consisting of the erection of a detached dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230893
13 Mar 2020Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced detached single family dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200311
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- WX032-022 Castle - motte
Description
Situated on a promontory in a loop of the N-S River Sow with steep slopes S-W-N where the river is c. 20m distant to the N, and c. 80-90m distant S-NW. This is a raised and overgrown subcircular platform (dims. 16m N-S; 13m E-W) defined a by flat bottomed fosse (Wth of top 4.7 6m; D c. 1.4-1.6m) with an external bank (Wth s. 3m) SE W NE situated at the W end of the natural promontory with steep slopes (H c. 10m) down to the river Sow. The monument is damaged at the E side by farm buildings. Toberfinnick ringwork (WX032 021----) is c. 100m to the N on the other side of the river. It is listed as a possible ringwork castle (Barry 1987, 53), and suggested as a possible caput for the Roche grant of Fernegenel (Colfer 2002, 105). 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: 17 July 2007
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 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- 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.
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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
- 47.8 ha
- 118 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 4,238 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toberfinnick, from 34 m² to 207,008 m² (20.7 ha, 51.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Toberfinnick 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
17 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling and domestic garag
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260472
25 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for the removal of existing entrance, permission
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251548
21 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251525
18 Nov 2025N/a
Permission and permission for retention for the removal of existing
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251489
24 May 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240595
23 Feb 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230174
15 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an extension to the side of an existing
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221511
14 May 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced new dwelling house with an attac
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210741
31 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and all associated site and ancill
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210469
19 Mar 2021N/a
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associa
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210398
31 Oct 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191470
14 Sept 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181253
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Toberfinnick.
Recorded monuments
- WX032-021 Castle - ringwork
Description
Located on a natural promontory in a loop of the N-S River Sow with steep slopes (H c. 15m) N-E-W where the river is c. 20-50m distant. This is a subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (dims. 28m NW-SE; 23.8m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (at NW: Wth 10m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 3.5m) with an external flat bottomed fosse (at NW: Wth of top 8.5m; Wth of base 2.5m; ext. D 1.5m) W-N and elsewhere by a scarp (Wth 5-6m; H 3.6-4.5m) with a berm (Wth 1 3m) at its base and natural steep slopes below. There is no visible entrance. Castlesow motte (WX032-022----) is c. 100 m to the S, on the other side of the river. 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: 3 September, 2012
- WX032-056 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located towards the E edge of a broad plateau with the valley of the N-S River Sow just to the E and the stream c. 250m to the E. The faint cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a faint fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (268) 18, 19). Compiled by: Michael Moore 3 September, 2012 Amended: 1 May, 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Toberfinnick.
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 Toberfinnick, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Toberfinnick.
- 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 Toberfinnick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Toberfinnick · Tobar na Feannóige
- Area
- 478,270 m² (47.83 ha, 118.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Artramon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelmaliere East
- Electoral division
- Artramon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 807 people lived in 263 households in the Artramon electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bleachlands, Castlesow, Crory Middle, Crory Upper, Monavoddagh, Monmore
- Placenames
- Toberfinnick 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.