Saunderscourt

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Saunderscourt, from 5 m² to 287,608 m² (28.76 ha, 71.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Saunderscourt 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.

• 29 May 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a two storey extension and alterations to existing dwelling, a

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260696

• 25 Feb 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a single storey rear conservatory extension to the house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260236

• 21 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the following; 1) proposed kitchen-living room and outdoor covere

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231566

• 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

• 17 Apr 2023Refused

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced single storey dwelling and all

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230398

• 6 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of 1no. fully serviced dwelling house and

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211900

• 4 Jun 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic shed, carport, on-site

  Permission, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20200580

• 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: Wexford Slobs And Harbour 000712

Recorded monuments

• WX037-017001 Church
  Description

  Located on a slight prominence, with the NW shore of the inner Wexford Harbour c. 700m to the SE. The parish church of Kilpatrick is within a raised D-shaped graveyard (dims c. 40m E-W; c. 40m N-S) defined by masonry walls (ext. H c. 1.5m) with the straight side at N. According to a Visitation by Thomas Ram, the Protestant bishop of Ferns, in 1615 it was impropriate to Glascarrig (WX017-010001-), Richard Hore was the curate, and while the church was in repair the chancel was in ruins (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 271). It was used as a private chapel for the house of Saunders Court, c. 300m to the ENE, and was functioning as a Church of Ireland church into the 19th century (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 198) before the E part was converted into a mausoleum for the Napier Gore family from the 1840s. It ceased to be a place of worship when a new Church of Ireland church was opened in 1869 at Kyle, c. 2.5 km to the NW (Frayne 1974-5, 55). The church is a single cell rectangular building (ext. dims. 13.9m E-W; 6.9m N-S) surviving to the eaves with an external render and internal plaster. A decorated pointed doorway (Wth 0.97m; H 2.2m) of two orders, which is early 13th century in date and thought to have come originally from Ballynaslaney (WX032-019001-) (ibid.) is in the W wall, with a destroyed single bellcote over the gable. There are two blocked rectangular windows of two (W) or three (E) lights in both the N and S walls with granite surrounds, and there is a large inserted mullion and transom window in the E wall. The base (dims 0.34m x 0.34m; H 0.37m) and part of the shaft (H 0.87m) of what might have been a wayside cross with a hexagonal or octagonal cross-section is set up on top of the graveyard wall at NW. The graveyard is depicted on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as within a circular wood (diam. c. 140m N-S; c. 120m E-W) that is attached to a more extensive wood to the NW, but there is no evidence that this was an ecclesiastical enclosure, and there is no cropmark evidence of an enclosure. St Patrick's Well (WX037-018----), a circular drystone walled structure with steps, lies c. 85m to the ENE. Aerial photographs (ASIAP, WX 70, 1 5) show the cropmark of a roadway (L c. 200m) approaching the E edge of the graveyard from the S. 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 Amended: 4 Sep. 2013

• WX037-017003 Graveyard
  Description

  Located on a slight prominence, with the NW shore on the inner Wexford Harbour c. 700m to the SE. The parish church of Kilpatrick (WX037-017001-) is within a raised D-shaped graveyard (dims c. 40m E-W; c. 40m N-S) defined by masonry walls (ext. H c. 1.5m), with the straight side at N. The base and part of the shaft of what might have been a cross (WX037-017004-) is set up on top of the graveyard wall at NW. St Patrick's Well (WX037-018----) is c. 85m to the ENE, and aerial photographs (ASIAP, WX 70, 1 5) show the cropmark of a roadway (WX037-017005-) approaching the E edge of the graveyard from the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 December, 2012

• WX037-017004 Cross - Churchyard cross
  Description

  The base (dims 0.34m x 0.34m; H 0.37m) and part of the shaft (H 0.87m) of what might have been a cross with a hexagonal or octagonal cross-section is set up on top of the graveyard wall (WX037-017003-) at NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 December, 2012

• WX037-017005 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Located on a gentle S-facing slope extending from the parish church of Kilpatrick (WX037-017001-) down towards the NW shore on the inner Wexford Harbour which is c. 700m to the SE of the church. Aerial photographs (ASIAP, WX 70, 1 5) show the cropmark of a roadway (L c. 200m) approaching the E edge of the graveyard from the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 December, 2012

• WX037-018 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on the 1839 and 1941 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and described in gothic lettering as ‘St.Patrick’s Well’ on both. It is located in a slight fold on a SE-facing slope overlooking the NW shore of the inner Wexford Harbour. This is a circular well (diam. 1.15-1.2m; D 0.7m) defined by drystone walling and approached by a passage (L 0.75m; Wth 0.6m) and steps from the N. There is no evidence of veneration and John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 recorded the name but said that it was not regarded as holy (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 349). (Frayne 1974-5, 56) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 December, 2012

Architectural heritage

• Saunders Court, country house, 1770–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of country house, vacant 1815; undergoing renovation 1844; occupied 1852; sold 1855; occupied 1863; sold 1889; demolished 1891, including: Detached three-bay two-storey wing on a rectangular plan with single-bay two-storey gabled flush end bay. Renovated, ----. Pitched (gabled) and hipped slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having "Cavetto"-detailed capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls with rusticated quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening with rendered "bas-relief" surround having splayed reveals framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in shared grounds.

• Saunders Court, country house, 1770–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of country house, vacant 1815; undergoing renovation 1844; occupied 1852; sold 1855; occupied 1863; sold 1889; demolished 1891, including: Detached six-bay single-storey wing with half-attic on an L-shaped plan with single-bay full-height projecting end bay on a half-octagonal plan. Renovated, ----. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with half-octagonal slate roof (end bay), clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" cornice retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered, ruled and lined monolithic pilasters. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings with "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed floating hood mouldings framing replacement casement windows. Set in shared grounds.

• Graveyard/cemetery, 1753–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Graveyard with collection of lichen-spotted cut-limestone markers, ob. 1753-1935. Set in field with lime rendered piers to perimeter having overgrown capping supporting flat iron double gates.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3019 (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 Saunderscourt with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Saunderscourt · Cill Phádraig

Area

1,807,497 m² (180.75 ha, 446.64 acres)

Civil parish

Kilpatrick, 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

Ferrycarrig, Galbally East, Islafalcon, Kavanaghspark, Killeen, Kitestown

Placenames

Saunderscourt 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.