Shrule

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shrule, from 50 m² to 471,711 m² (47.17 ha, 116.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Shrule 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.

• 23 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission to install a new site entrance and driveway with all associated site

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241144

• 5 Apr 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A STEEL FRAMED DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORK

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180423

• 30 Aug 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT WHICH WILL CONSIST OF: CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STORE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171166

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 Shrule.

Recorded monuments

• WX006-051 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked as a standing stone only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated just off the SE-facing slope of a col with hills rising over it c. 600m to the SW and c. 600m to the N. It was described in 1940 as an upright stone (dims c. 0.6m x c. 0.55m; H 1.05m) with a square top (dims c. 0.3m x c. 0.3m) (OSFM). It was not visible in 1987 at ground level. 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

• WX006-052 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Marked as a fulacht fia only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated in a fold of a S-facing slope with the headwaters of a N-S stream immediately to the E. It was described in 1940 as a scarp of a mound of charred stone and black earth emerging out of the slope (dim c. 15m NW-SE; c. 9m NE-SW; H c. 1.2m) at E) (OSFM). It was not visible in 1987 at ground level in pasture, but there is a local memory of black earth and cracked stones being visible when the area was reclaimed c. 1960. 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: 1 March, 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Shrule, 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 Shrule.

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

Name

Shrule · An tSruthail

Area

1,061,667 m² (106.17 ha, 262.34 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

Brideswell Big, Brideswell Little, Carrigbeg, Monbay Lower, Monbay Upper, Shrule

Placenames

Shrule 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.