Tenacre
Tenacre is a townland in the civil parish of Kilrane, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Deich nAcra.
Parcel 426829
- Area
- 2,270 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 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
- Tenacre
Planning applications on this parcel
23 May 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions to an
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250598
21 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for an extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house,
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211630
4 Oct 2021N/a
Permission for an extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house and al
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211550
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 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 this parcel.
- 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
- 50.2 ha
- 124 acres
- Land parcels
- 63
- registered freehold, median 2,400 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tenacre, from 36 m² to 68,343 m² (6.83 ha, 16.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Tenacre 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
25 Jun 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the following development which will consist of permission for
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250787
23 May 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions to an
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250598
29 Apr 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of alterations to an approved dwelling house
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250487
6 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of a new 28.36m2 single storey extension
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240638
20 May 2024N/a
Retention of a new single storey extension to the rear of my dwelling house
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240559
17 Nov 2023Granted (conditional)
Premission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231379
5 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of the change of use of existing building (originally)
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20231194
10 Feb 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions to an
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230127
21 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for an extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house,
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211630
4 Oct 2021N/a
Permission for an extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house and al
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211550
31 May 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced single storey dwelling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210854
21 Jun 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190862
11 Jun 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190812
23 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE RETENTION OF A SINGLE STOREY CONCRETE BLOCK STRUCTURE / GARAG
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190540
21 Sept 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SUNROOM TO THE SIDE OF DWELL
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171258
26 Oct 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161193
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 Tenacre.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tenacre.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tenacre.
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 Tenacre, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tenacre.
- 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 Tenacre with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Tenacre · Deich nAcra
- Area
- 502,345 m² (50.23 ha, 124.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilrane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- St. Helen's, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,719 people lived in 1,005 households in the St. Helen's electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyconor Big, Ballyconor Little, Ballycronigan, Ballydungan, Ballyell Little, Ballyhote, Harristown
- Placenames
- Tenacre 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.