Fernyhill
Fernyhill is a townland in the civil parish of Killinick, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Cnoc na Raithní.
Parcel 425518
- Area
- 6,479 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Fernyhill
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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
- 22.2 ha
- 55 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 2,294 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fernyhill, from 144 m² to 110,863 m² (11.09 ha, 27.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Fernyhill 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
2 Sept 2026N/a
Permission for (a) retention of the conversion of a former vacant shop
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20261161
1 Jul 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention and completion of modifications and alterations
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260865
2 Jan 2026Granted (unconditional)
Permission for the erection of 3 no. fully serviced dwelling houses and all asso
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20211029
5 Nov 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house, garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241363
30 Oct 2024N/a
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house, garage, and
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20241346
29 Sept 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a domestic garage together with
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231172
6 Jul 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for (i) the erection of a fully serviced single storey dwelling,
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230780
22 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house, garage and
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221539
28 May 2021N/a
Permission for the erection of 3 no. fully serviced dwelling houses and all asso
Permission, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210844
26 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house, garage, carp
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201425
6 Nov 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191496
17 Oct 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND A
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191408
17 Jul 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191015
5 Jul 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190953
11 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190810
24 May 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND A
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190710
22 Mar 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190360
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fernyhill.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fernyhill.
Architectural heritage
- Ferny Hill, house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry house, extant 1840, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch; single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey double-pile return with half-dormer attic (east). "Improved", pre-1903, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Reroofed, ----. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) artificial slate roof; replacement pitched double-pile (M-profile) artificial slate roof (east), ridge tiles, cement rendered off-central chimney stack supporting terracotta pot, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with timber finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered battered walls over coursed rubble stone construction; fine roughcast surface finish (east). Square-headed central door opening into house. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing three-over-six timber sash windows. Paired square-headed window openings (east) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or two-over-two (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows. Set perpendicular to road on a wedge-shaped site with roughcast-panelled rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron gate.
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 Fernyhill, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3060 (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 Fernyhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Fernyhill · Cnoc na Raithní
- Area
- 221,936 m² (22.19 ha, 54.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killinick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Killinick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 927 people lived in 339 households in the Killinick electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Fernyhill 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.