Pallis Lower

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pallis Lower, from 43 m² to 176,035 m² (17.6 ha, 43.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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 Pallis Lower 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.

• 24 Nov 2025Refused

  Permission for indefinite retention of the following a) Sun room to main house

  Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20251531

• 8 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of alterations to dwelling and permission for retention

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250973

• 11 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention for the construction of an unauthorised granny flat

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20240655

• 1 Sept 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services as a change of house design from

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231041

• 2 Aug 2023Refused

  Permission for the construction of a new domestic dwelling, domestic garage, the

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230892

• 22 Jul 2022Refused

  Permission for the construction of a new domestic dwelling, domestic garage, the

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221008

• 15 Mar 2022Granted (conditional)

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

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220335

• 31 Jan 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a two storey dwelling with services, domestic garage and

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220105

• 30 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a new dwelling house and all associated site

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201448

• 29 Jan 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A BUNGALOW WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ANCILLARY

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180091

• 29 Aug 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND SHED ALONG WITH

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160956

• 19 May 2016Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND SHED ALONG WITH

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160535

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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

• WX002-016 Moated site
  Description

  Situated on a gentle S and SW-facing slope of Pallis Hill. This is a raised rectangular platform (dims. 23m N-S; 17.5m E-W) covered in dense scrub, with traces of an internal bank at the NE angle. It is surrounded by a moat (Wth 6-7m; int. D 1-2m), but the moat does not survive on the S and much of the W sides. (Barry 1977, 225, WX 98) 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: 27 January 2012

• WX002-017 Moated site
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope of Pallis Hill. Raised, grass and fern-covered square area (dims. 36m E-W; 35m N-S) defined by earthen banks (Wth 3-5m; int. H 0.5-1m) with upturned corners. This is surrounded by a moat (Wth of top 4-5m; D below interior 1-1.5m), which is not visible at S where there may be an entrance. Rath (WX002-018----) is c. 90m to the E. (Barry 1977, 225, WX 99) 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: 27 July 2012

• WX002-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) that is truncated by a NE-SW field bank at SE on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is located on a S-facing slope of Pallis Hill. This is a circular, grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 30m) defined by wide low bank (Wth 5–6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.5m) and an external fosse (Wth of top 5m; D 0.2m). There is no visible entrance. Moated site (WX002-017----) is c. 90m to the W. 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: 27 January 2012

• WX002-019001 Castle - motte
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope of Pallis Hill. This is a grass and scrub-covered earthen mound (diam. of base c. 30m; H over fosse 6-8m) defined by wide, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth c. 4m; D 1.5m), not visible SE–SW. The summit has been quarried but originally was flat-topped (diam. c. 15m). There is a tradition of the discovery of an urn here (Kinahan 1882, 159). 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: 27 Janusry 2012

• WX002-019002 Urn burial
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope of Pallis Hill. There is a tradition of the discovery of an urn at Pallis Lower motte (WX002-019001-) (Kinahan 1882, 159), but it is not substantiated. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 January, 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pallis Lower.

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 Pallis Lower, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pallis Lower.

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

Name

Pallis Lower · An Phailís Íochtarach

Area

1,382,236 m² (138.22 ha, 341.56 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnenor, and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Limerick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,056 people lived in 341 households in the Limerick electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh Long, Aughullen, Barracurragh, Custodium, Knocklahaun, Pallis Upper, Pallishill

Placenames

Pallis Lower 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.