Clonard Great

116 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonard Great, from 29 m² to 359,888 m² (35.99 ha, 88.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 55 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 Clonard Great 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Clonard Great 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 the townland of Clonard Great.

Recorded monuments

• WX042-005 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Richard Sutton of Fethard and his wife, Agatha, received a grant of land at Clonard in 1379 (Hore 1945, 50), which the Suttons held down to the 17th century. According to the Civil Survey (1655-6) Nicholas Sutton owned 98 acres at Great Clonard in 1641, together with 430 acres elsewhere in St. Peter’s parish (Simington 1953, 299). The castle is situated on a level, low-lying landscape and survives to the top of the E-W barrel vault (H 4.3m), although lacking the W wall (ext. dims. 6.9m N-S; at least 7m E-W). No quoins survive and there is no evidence of the original entrance or of a stairs to the upper floors. The walls have no base-batter and the only features at the ground floor are two blocked lights in the E wall. The first floor under the vault has one small rectangular window with no dressed stone in the E wall, and its floor was supported on joists set directly into the N and S walls. 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: 27 May, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Clonard House, country house, 1780–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three- or five-bay two-storey over basement country house, built 1783, on a square plan with two-bay two-storey side elevations; three-bay three-storey rear (west) elevation. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Renovated, 1968. Replacement hipped artificial slate roof on a U-shaped plan behind parapet with clay ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and concealed rainwater goods retaining cast-iron downpipes. Replacement cement rendered walls originally slate hung with rendered "bas-relief" strips to corners supporting cut-granite coping to parapet; slate hung surface finish to side (south) elevation on lime rendered base. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of eleven cut-granite steps, cut-granite block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing timber panelled door having overlight with interlocking ogee glazing bars. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing four-over-four timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings including paired square-headed window openings (first floor) centred on square-headed window opening with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing twelve-over-twelve timber sash (ground floor) or replacement timber casement (first floor) windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds.

• Clonard House, gates/railings/walls, 1780–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, extant 1840, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of rendered, ruled and lined piers having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting quatrefoil-detailed wrought iron double gates. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Clonard House.

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 Clonard Great, 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3022 (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.

No address of the register names Clonard Great with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Clonard Great · Cluain Ard Mór

Area

693,587 m² (69.36 ha, 171.39 acres)

Civil parish

St. Peter's, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Wexford Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

14,194 people lived in 5,189 households in the Wexford Rural electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymorris, Clonard Little, Hayestown Great, Killeens, Laurstown

Placenames

Clonard Great 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.