Loughnageer

103 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughnageer, from 28 m² to 734,043 m² (73.4 ha, 181.39 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 Loughnageer 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 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of extensions and renovations to an existing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251608

• 25 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of an extension to an existing dwelling house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201412

• 23 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of extensions and alterations to the existing dw

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201401

• 28 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development of a milking parlour, roofed collecting yard, extensi

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201253

• 14 Sept 2020N/a

  Permission for development of a milking parlour, roofed collecting yard, extensi

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201058

• 18 Aug 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention of the change of use of a storage shed to living ac

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200954

• 12 Dec 2019Refused

  RETENTION OF THE CHANGE OF USE OF A STORAGE SHED TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191645

• 30 Oct 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF LIVESTOCK CUBICLE SHED WITH UNDERGROUND

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191465

• 12 Jun 2019Refused

  RETENTION OF THE CHANGE OF USE OF A STORAGE SHED TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190816

• 27 May 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, AND

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190733

• 2 May 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, WITH AN ATTACHED SINGLE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190601

• 11 Sept 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF AN EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171221

• 14 Aug 2017N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF AN EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171075

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: Bannow Bay SAC 000697
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bannow Bay 000697

Recorded monuments

• WX040-035 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked only on the 1925 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as an arc of hachures NW-NE (C c. 70m). It is located toward the top of a W-facing slope down to the NNE-SSW Aughnascallop stream which is c. 300m to the W. It is not visible at ground level in pasture, but there is a slight curve (C. c. 30m) in a NW-SE field bank and townland boundary with Ballybrack. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 February, 2013

• WX040-037 Church
  Description

  Marked faintly as a rectangular structure (dims c. 20m N-S: c. 8m E-W) and described as the site of St. Catherine’s Chapel on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 records the tradition of a church site dedicated to St Catherine (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 355). It is located at the S tip of a N-S spur. This is a neglected and scrub-covered triangular enclosure (dims c. 90m E-W; c. 80m N-S) with no visible remains of a church structure or burial at ground level. St Catherine's Well (WX040-039----) lies c. 430m to the ENE. (Murphy c. 1994, 17) 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: 20 February, 2013

• WX040-038 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a gentle SE-facing slope. The cropmark of an oval enclosure (dims. c. 60m E-W; c. 40m N-S) is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP, ASW 65). It is not visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 20 February, 2013

• WX040-039 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering as St. Catherine’s Well on both. It is listed as a holy well by John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 335). It is situated on a gentle E-facing slope and at the end of and in the centre of an overgrown lane (Wth c. 8m; L c. 75m) that is known locally as the pilgrim’s lane running SW from a small NW-SE public road. The well, known locally as Tober the Crisceen (Cruiscín - Jug) (Murphy c. 1994, 17), is circular (diam. 0.8m; D 0.9m) and retained by granite stones. It was dry at the time of the visit and there is no evidence of veneration. The site of St. Catherine’s church (WX040-037----) is c. 430m to the WSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 February, 2013

• WX040-075 Burnt mound
  Description

  Situated towards the top of a W-facing slope with the source of a small NE-SW stream just to the W. The stream joins the NNW-SSE Owenduff River c. 500m to the SW. This is a circular area of burnt and broken stone (diam. c. 15m) visible when the area is ploughed. It is visible as a dark area on the photographic images of Google Earth (2010). 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: 20 February, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Taylorstown Bridge, bridge, 1700–1798 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two-arch road bridge over river, extant 1798. Overgrown walls centred on triangular cutwater to pier to upriver (north) elevation having moss-covered pyramidal capping with overgrown coping to parapets. Pair of elliptical or segmental arches with overgrown voussoirs. Sited spanning Owenduff River with overgrown banks to river.

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 Loughnageer, 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 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 Loughnageer.

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

Name

Loughnageer · Loch na gCaor

Area

3,502,408 m² (350.24 ha, 865.46 acres)

Civil parish

Clongeen, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere West

Electoral division

Clongeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

965 people lived in 358 households in the Clongeen electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Arklow, Ballybrack, Ballylannan, Clongeen, Clonmines, Mullinderry, Rochestown, Taylorstown, Yoletown

Placenames

Loughnageer 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.