Scarnagh Lower
Scarnagh Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Inch (Gorey Ra), barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Scearnach Íochtarach.
Parcel 399983
- Area
- 2,387 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 182 m².
- 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
- Scarnagh Lower
Planning applications on this parcel
12 Aug 2024Granted (conditional)
permission for retention of existing granny flat and permission to cease the use
Retention, 5 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240957
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3298 (ZIP).
- 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
- 129.1 ha
- 319 acres
- Land parcels
- 70
- registered freehold, median 4,796 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scarnagh Lower, from 346 m² to 154,752 m² (15.48 ha, 38.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Scarnagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Apr 2026Refused
Permission for: (1) change of use of part of existing agricultural building to
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260436
17 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for development which will consist of: farmland improvement
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251178
19 Jun 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage as a change of
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250749
3 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of domestic garage building and permission to make
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241218
12 Aug 2024Granted (conditional)
permission for retention of existing granny flat and permission to cease the use
Retention, 5 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240957
2 Jul 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a fully serviced dwelling house with domestic garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240765
9 Oct 2023Refused
Permission to erect a fully serviced dwelling house with domestic garage under
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231199
11 Apr 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the upgrading of existing septic tank to treatment plant and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230385
29 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230312
15 Aug 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of existing 35.81 sqm detached domestic garage
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221091
30 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of existing extensions to the rear of dwelling and
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220877
1 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211399
27 Jun 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180871
14 May 2018N/a
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180630
21 Dec 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCI
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171703
19 Apr 2017Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170469
28 Apr 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WOR
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160433
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 Scarnagh Lower.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Scarnagh Lower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Scarnagh 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Scarnagh Lower, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3298 (ZIP).
- 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 Scarnagh Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Scarnagh Lower · Scearnach Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,291,130 m² (129.11 ha, 319.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inch (Gorey Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Ballylarkin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 938 people lived in 311 households in the Ballylarkin electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ashwood Lower, Ashwood Upper, Ballyellin Lower, Ballyellin Upper, Ballykilty Lower, Ballylarkin, Scarnagh Upper
- Placenames
- Scarnagh 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.