Allenstown Big

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Allenstown Big, from 156 m² to 145,685 m² (14.57 ha, 36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Allenstown Big 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 May 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240603

• 4 Feb 2019Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED TWO-STOREY DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190126

• 17 Jan 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED TWO-STOREY DWELLING

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190042

• 30 May 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING: 1. MILKI

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180731

• 23 Jan 2017Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING VARIOUS EXTENSIONS AND

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170045

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 Allenstown Big.

Recorded monuments

• WX048-043 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Located in a level landscape, it was the source of a small stream (L c. 1km) that ran SE to the head of Lady’s Island Lough that was known as Lough Togher in the 17th century. A well is marked on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering on both as ‘St. Catherine’s Well’. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 it was no longer visited at that time and he does not provide a pattern day (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 303). Hore (1949, 48-9) thought that the well was named after the patron of the parish, St. Iberius, or Iobhar of Begerin (WX038-004001-). The well is no longer extant but is described locally as a spring that had not been venerated. The saint is probably St. Catherine of Alexandria. She was a 4th century savant who converted some pagan philosophers. When persecuted on a rack the wheels miraculously fell off the machine – hence she is always represented with a wheel. Eventually she was burned by her persecutors. Her remains were discovered in Egypt in the 8th century and miraculously translated to Mt. Sinai where her monastery continues to this day. Some of her relics came to Europe in the 11th century, resulting in the popularisation of her cult. In 1969 she was removed from the Calendar by the Roman Catholic Church because the details of her life were so obscure, but she was restored in 2002. (Butler, Rev. A 1883, 169) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 January, 2013

• WX048-142 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single faint fosse feature is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX048-142_1 to _3) taken in July 2006. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 January, 2013

• WX048-151 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a small enclosure (diam. c. 25m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX048-151_1 to _3) taken in July, 2006. It appears to have two internal pits. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 January, 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Allenstown Big, 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 Allenstown Big.

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

Name

Allenstown Big · Baile Alain Mór

Area

670,782 m² (67.08 ha, 165.75 acres)

Civil parish

St. Iberius, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Kilscoran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,073 people lived in 388 households in the Kilscoran electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Allenstown Little, Ballytory Upper, Bennettstown, Butlerstown, Glaglig, Grange, Heaths, St. Iberius, Trane

Placenames

Allenstown Big 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.