Lake Big
Lake Big is a townland in the civil parish of Rosslare, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Loch Mór.
Parcel 423508
- Area
- 1,322 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 204 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Lake Big
Planning applications on this parcel
4 Nov 2021Refused
Permissionfor the proposed erection of a fully serviced together with associated
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211713
4 Nov 2021Refused
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211712
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3133 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 45 ha
- 111 acres
- Land parcels
- 78
- registered freehold, median 1,087 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 20
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lake Big, from 18 m² to 84,175 m² (8.42 ha, 20.8 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lake 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
31 May 2026Refused
Permission for the erection of a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260703
15 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for an existing modular timber cabin previously in use
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260455
31 Oct 2025Refused
Permission for the erection of a single storey dwelling house and the
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251402
7 Apr 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a one/two storey, 4 bedroom
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250391
20 Jan 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a one/two storey, 4 bedroom
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250044
9 Dec 2024N/a
The construction of a none/two storey, 4 bedroom, detached house measuring
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20241528
27 Nov 2024N/a
Permission for the construction of a one/two storey, 4 bedroom
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241474
8 Sept 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a one/two storey, 4 bedroom, detached house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20231076
21 Jul 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of a gravel access road onto agricultural lands.
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230837
4 Nov 2021Refused
Permissionfor the proposed erection of a fully serviced together with associated
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211713
4 Nov 2021Refused
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211712
5 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to relocate and upgrade the domestic watse water treatment
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211554
5 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211553
23 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of extensions and alterations to the existing dw
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201402
9 Apr 2020Granted (conditional)
Permiission fora a 1 / 2 storey 4 bedroom detached house at the end of / west
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200429
27 Mar 2020Refused
Permission for the proposed erection of 3 fully serviced dwelling house together
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200392
24 Oct 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE RETENTION OF BOUNDARY WALLS AND FENCING ERECTED TO THE PERIME
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191435
12 Apr 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICING OF 4 RESIDENTIAL SITES
Permission, 4 homes · Wexford County Council, 20180465
12 Jan 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO AN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170020
14 Oct 2016Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICING OF SIX RESIDENTIAL SITES AT THE OR
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161139
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: Wexford Harbour and Slobs SPA 004076
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Wexford Slobs And Harbour 000712
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lake Big.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lake 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Lake Big, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3134 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lake Big with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Lake Big · An Loch Mór
- Area
- 449,662 m² (44.97 ha, 111.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rosslare, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Rosslare, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,234 people lived in 807 households in the Rosslare electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 52% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bearlough, Grange Big, Lake Little, Rosslare Intake, Woodtown
- Placenames
- Lake 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.