Moortown Great
Moortown Great is a townland in the civil parish of Tomhaggard, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile na Móna Mór.
Parcel 429911
- Area
- 12,371 m² (1.24 ha, 3.06 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 400 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
- Moortown Great
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 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.
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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
- 93.8 ha
- 232 acres
- Land parcels
- 68
- registered freehold, median 3,995 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moortown Great, from 233 m² to 101,847 m² (10.18 ha, 25.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Moortown Great 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
10 Jun 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for single storey flat roof extension to the rear of existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260756
15 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for: (A)(i) the demolition of 10.8sqm of an existing dwelling house
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260456
5 Nov 2025Refused
Permission for (A)(i) the demolition of 10.8sqm of an existing dwelling house
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251426
6 Dec 2024Refused
Permission for (A) the demolition of 10.7 sqm of an existing dwelling house
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241520
18 Jan 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for a constructed fully serviced extension to the side and rear
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230037
24 May 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an outbuilding to the rear of the site of an
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220688
4 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for a constructed fully serviced granny flat and associ
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211708
28 Jul 2021Refused
Permission for retention for a constructed fully serviced Granny flat and associ
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211210
2 Jul 2021N/a
Permission for retention for a constructed fully serviced Granny flat and associ
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211047
7 Apr 2021N/a
Permission for retention for a constructed fully serviced granny flat
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210502
8 Feb 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for the retention of the erection of a porch extension
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210173
12 Aug 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION FOR THE FOLLOWING: (A) RETENTION OF EXTENSIONS AND
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191133
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 Moortown Great.
Recorded monuments
- WX047-130 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (30) 21, 22). 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: 16 October, 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moortown Great.
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 Moortown Great, 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 Moortown Great.
- 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 Moortown Great with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Moortown Great · Baile na Móna Mór
- Area
- 938,371 m² (93.84 ha, 231.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tomhaggard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bargy
- Electoral division
- Tomhaggard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 550 people lived in 205 households in the Tomhaggard electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cousinstown, Gallagh, Grayrobin, Littletown, Moortown Little, Tullabards Little
- Placenames
- Moortown Great 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.