Pollwitch

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollwitch, from 130 m² to 43,619 m² (4.36 ha, 10.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 4 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 Pollwitch 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.

• 3 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of a first floor gable window and two

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241495

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 Pollwitch.

Recorded monuments

• WX047-148 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Located on a low-lying landscape in the village of Mayglass. This is a four-bay thatched vernacular house of two storeys that is constructed of earthen walls over a stone base. It was constructed in a number of phases, dating from c. 1675 to the late 19th century, but it has remained unchanged since then. The house is a variant of the ’lobby entry’ house and retains a number of early features, including its fireplace with a wall oven and some of the windows, but the SW end of the house is thought to be an addition. Both the house and its farm buildings are undergoing a conservation programme since 1998 with support from the Heritage Council (Reeners 2003). Part of the works necessitated the erection of a shed over the structure to shelter it and archaeological excavation (98E0587) in connection with this identified some ground levels associated with the house (Sheehan 2000), but further work under the same licence uncovered original early walls extending outside the present house to the NE (Wren 2000). See this website accessed on 18 October, 2013: http://www.mayglass-2000.ie/project.html Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 October, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1725 · National interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, built 1703 or 1723, on a T-shaped plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Extended, 1831, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Vacated, 1995. Derelict, 1998. Restored, 1998-2001. Now disused. Replacement hipped oat thatch roof on collared bough construction with chicken wire-covered exposed wire stretchers to ridge having exposed hazel scallops, rendered red brick Running bond central chimney stack, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls; exposed coursed rubble stone to side (east) elevation. Square-headed off-central door opening with rough hewn limestone step threshold, and concealed dressings including timber lintel framing sheet timber door. Square-headed window openings with rough hewn limestone sills (ground floor) or slate sills (dormer attic), and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing three-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including (ground floor): off-central lobby; kitchen (east) retaining hearth with propped timber Bressamer beam supporting limewashed wattle-and-daub canopy; and parlour (west) retaining timber chimneypiece. Set in unkempt grounds perpendicular to road with limewashed cylindrical pier to perimeter having conical capping supporting replacement tubular mild steel "farm gate".

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 Pollwitch, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Pollwitch · Poll Bhoits

Area

83,127 m² (8.31 ha, 20.54 acres)

Civil parish

Mayglass, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Mayglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

600 people lived in 195 households in the Mayglass electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bog East, Courtlands East, Cregg

Placenames

Pollwitch 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.