Grayrobin
Grayrobin is a townland in the civil parish of Tomhaggard, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Gráig Roibín.
Parcel 395862
- Area
- 14,901 m² (1.49 ha, 3.68 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Grayrobin
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 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 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 97.9 ha
- 242 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 8,264 m² (0.83 ha, 2.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grayrobin, from 1,973 m² to 265,022 m² (26.5 ha, 65.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Grayrobin 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
22 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of a porch to the front of a dwelling house, retention
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260066
26 Jun 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for alterations and improvements to Tomhaggard Community Hall
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250792
10 Jun 2025N/a
Permission for alterations and improvements to Tomhaggard Community Hall and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250708
29 May 2025N/a
Permission for alterations and improvements and for the upgrade of onsite
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250639
13 May 2025N/a
Permission for alterations and improvements to Tomhaggard Community Hall and for
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250554
29 Apr 2025N/a
Permission for alterations and improvements to Tomhaggard Social Centre
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250493
15 Apr 2025N/a
Permission for alterations and improvements to Tomhaggard Social Centre
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250443
19 Aug 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed replacement of a current single vehicular entrance
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221108
6 Dec 2021Refused
Permission for the demolition of an existing extension to the side of a dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211913
14 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of 4 no. existing agricultural structures for the housi
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210938
30 Nov 2020Refused
Permission for the demolition of an existing extension to the side of a dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201443
18 Sept 2020N/a
Permission for the demolition of an existing extension to the side of a dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201076
31 Jul 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of an existing agricultural structure for the housing o
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200871
24 Jul 2020N/a
Permission for the demolition of an existing extension to the side of dwelling h
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200830
21 Mar 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF 2 NO. STABLE BLOCK BUILDINGS, AN INDOOR
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180332
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 Grayrobin.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Grayrobin.
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1700–1779 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1779, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch; four-bay single-storey rear (west) elevation. "Improved", pre-1903, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Hipped oat thatch roof overhanging lean-to roofs to window openings to dormer attic with chicken wire-covered exposed wire stretchers to ridge having exposed hazel scallops, rendered off-central chimney stack having chamfered stringcourse below chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls with limewashed lime rendered buttress to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed central door opening into farmhouse. Square-headed window openings with limewashed concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings including lintels framing two-over-two (ground floor) or three-over-six (dormer attic) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes with two-over-two timber sash windows to gables to side elevations. Square-headed window openings to rear (west) elevation with limewashed sills, and concealed dressings including lintels framing two-over-two (north) or one-over-one (south) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set perpendicular to lane with limewashed piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting iron 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Grayrobin, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Grayrobin.
- 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 Grayrobin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Grayrobin · Gráig Roibín
- Area
- 978,638 m² (97.86 ha, 241.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tomhaggard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bargy
- Electoral division
- Tomhaggard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 550 people lived in 205 households in the Tomhaggard electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Crossscales, Gallagh, Genstown, Littletown, Moortown Great, Pludboher, Pollrane, Tomhaggard
- Placenames
- Grayrobin 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.