Ferrycarrig

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ferrycarrig, from 375 m² to 228,748 m² (22.87 ha, 56.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ferrycarrig 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.

• 28 Aug 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for 1) replacement of existing shed together with installation

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241027

• 6 Sept 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of development comprising of, an earthen bund 119

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231061

• 23 Aug 2023N/a

  Planning retention for the development of an earthen bund 119 metres long

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230975

• 8 Aug 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store and

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221065

• 9 Apr 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR ADDITIONAL SLATTED TANK AND FEED PASSAGE AND ASSOCIATED WORKS FRO

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180436

• 15 Aug 2017Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A DETACHED, SINGLE STOREY HOTEL RESIDENT

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171091

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
• Special Protection Area: Wexford Harbour and Slobs SPA 004076
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slaney River Valley 000781
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Wexford Slobs And Harbour 000712

Recorded monuments

• WX037-027 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Specific references to the structure are elusive but it probably dates to the 15th century. In 1555 Alexander Roche of Ardtramon (WX037-007----) settled the ferry of Carge on his son along with other possessions (Brooks 1950, 151), and according to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Walter Roche of Newcastle (WX037-016----) controlled it in 1641 (Simington 1953, 112). The ferry may have lasted until a wooden bridge was built in 1794 (Lewis 1839, vol. 1, 280). The tower is situated on a piece of rock outcrop on the N side of and commanding the narrow NW-SE passage (Wth c. 100m) of the River Slaney as it enters the inner Wexford harbour, and it is now separated by the N11 Wexford town to Enniscorthy road from a high bluff (H c. 40m) c. 70m to the W. Originally the road skirted the S and E sides of the monument. The Newtown ring-work (WX037-028002-), often known as Ferrycarrig, is on a bluff on the S side of the river, c. 200m to the WSW. The rectangular tower house (ext. dims. 7.3m E-W; 6m N-S) with conglomerate quoins survives to four storeys with a base batter which covers much of the face of the rock pinnacle. The rebuilt doorway towards the E end of the S wall, is protected inside with an original murder-hole. An entrance leads directly to a mural stairs in the E wall, but the entrance to the ground floor chamber (int. dims 3.6m N-S; 3.6m E-W) is destroyed. On the ground floor an alcove at the NW angle has double-splayed loops facing W and N, and an embrasure in the N wall has three inserted musket-loops. There are granite corbels in the N and S walls to support the ceiling. The mural stairs in the E wall leads to a passage in the N wall and a lobby outside the lintelled doorway to the first floor under an E-W vault. The lobby is protected by a doorway against the passage to the E. The first floor has simple lights in embrasures on the W and E walls, the latter also controlling the murder-hole. Beyond the lobby in the N wall the mural passage continues to the NW angle, which has a cross-loop, and then becomes a newel stairs. At the head of the newel stairs a lintelled doorway gives access to a garderobe in the W wall and a lintelled doorway leads to the second floor (int. dims 4.7m E-W; 2.7m N-S), which has a fireplace at the E end of the S wall and simple rectangular windows in embrasures at the W end of the S wall, the S end of the E wall and the E end of the N wall, with another cross-loop a the NE angle. The dressed stonework of the windows and loops appears to be limestone, and there are two corbels in the S wall and a rebate on the N wall to support the ceiling. The garderobe slightly overhangs the inner face of the W wall where it is supported on corbels, and a spy-hole is broken through from the chute to view the second floor chamber. At the NW angle the stairs rise anti-clockwise to the third floor where the walls are truncated, but there were windows in embrasures in the E wall, at the E end of the N wall and the W end of the S wall, the latter embrasure having curved sides. (Adams 1904. 182 4; Orpen in Hore 1900-11, vol. 5, 22-9) 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: 14 December, 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2985 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ferrycarrig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ferrycarrig · Caladh na Carraige

Area

423,513 m² (42.35 ha, 104.65 acres)

Civil parish

Tikillin, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere East

Electoral division

Kilpatrick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilpatrick electoral division: 762 people in 260 households; 90% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacshoneen, Killeen, Killowen, Kitestown, Saunderscourt

Placenames

Ferrycarrig 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.