Muchrath

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muchrath, from 4,065 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres) to 145,247 m² (14.52 ha, 35.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Muchrath 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.

• 12 Nov 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dormer style dwelling, detached

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241398

• 29 Aug 2023Refused

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dormer style dwelling, detached

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20231009

• 7 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)

  DEVELOPMENT OF A SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC PANEL ARRAY WITH A MAXIMUM EXPORT CAPACITY O

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20160644

• 5 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, garage and all a

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201141

• 3 Jun 2016N/a

  DEVELOPMENT OF A SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC PANEL ARRAY WITH A MAXIMUM EXPORT CAPACITY O

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160621

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 Muchrath.

Recorded monuments

• WX048-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a small rise with a small SE-NW stream c. 120m distant S-W. This is a raised circular and grass-covered area (diam. 50m) defined by a scarp (H 1.1m at E to 1.9m at W) and hedge, with slight traces of a bank at SE. There is an entrance ramp (Wth 5m) at E but there is no visible fosse. 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: 8 January 2014 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1979).

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Muchrath.

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

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, low (inferred).

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3101 (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 Muchrath with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Muchrath · An Ráth Mór

Area

323,990 m² (32.4 ha, 80.06 acres)

Civil parish

Killinick, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Tacumshin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

507 people lived in 204 households in the Tacumshin electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycorboys Little, Ballykereen, Coolkeeran, Crylough, Elevenacre, Graheeroge, Knocknell

Placenames

Muchrath 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.