Soughane

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Soughane, from 62 m² to 158,511 m² (15.85 ha, 39.17 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Soughane 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.

• 11 Feb 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for erection of dwelling house with associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260157

• 22 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the alterations and additions to existing house to include 2

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260069

• 26 Nov 2025Refused

  Permission for erection of dwelling house with associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251559

• 7 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of (a) minor alterations to an existing dwelling

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240645

• 19 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)

  permission for the erection a fully serviced dwelling and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211159

• 22 May 2020Granted (conditional)

  Full Planning Permission for the erection of an extension to an existing dwellin

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200522

• 30 Aug 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF NEW TWO

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191221

• 12 Feb 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN AGRICULTURAL CUBICLE SHED WITH SLATTED TANKS AS WELL

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180167

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 Soughane.

Recorded monuments

• WX052-035 Windmill
  Description

  Situated on a gently undulating landscape. A windmill in use is marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map. This is an ivy-covered conical tower (int. diam. of base c. 5m; ext. diam. c. 7m) of three floors with opposing doorways at E and W. There are two windows on each floor, and there is a foundation stone, now illegible, over the E doorway. The corn-drying kiln is just to the N. 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: 19 February 2014

Architectural heritage

• Mill (wind), 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay three-stage conical windmill tower, dated ----; extant 1840, on a circular plan. In use, 1911. Disused, 1922. Now in ruins. Roof now missing. Creeper- or ivy-covered lime rendered or roughcast battered walls. Square-headed opposing door openings including one square-headed door opening below overgrown date stone ("----") with overgrown thresholds, and concealed timber beam lintels with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings (upper stages) with concealed dressings including rough hewn lintels. Interior in ruins retaining timber beams (top stage). Set in unkempt grounds.

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 Soughane, 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 Soughane.

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

Name

Soughane · Suíochán

Area

668,512 m² (66.85 ha, 165.19 acres)

Civil parish

Kilturk, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Kilmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,469 people lived in 925 households in the Kilmore electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballask, Ballycleary, Ballyhealy North, Ballyseskin, Gallagh, Glebe, Newtown, Pollrane

Placenames

Soughane 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.