Inch

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inch, from 35,528 m² (3.55 ha, 8.78 acres) to 44,603 m² (4.46 ha, 11.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Inch 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.

• 20 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251336

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 the townland of Inch.

Recorded monuments

• WX003-028001 Church
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying position within the valley of the W-E Inch River, with the stream c. 60m to the S. This is the church of Inismocholmoc or 'Colman's Island', listed as a church of Glendalough diocese in 1179, which survives as the parish church of Inch down to the present. According to a Visitation by Thomas Ram, the Protestant bishop of Ferns, in 1615 there was no priest, and the condition of the church and chancel were not recorded (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 271). The church was described as ruinous but the chancel was in repair in a survey of 1630 (Ronan 1927, 105). The site is occupied by a Church of Ireland church that was built in 1831 (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 15) within an irregularly-shaped graveyard (dims. c. 80m E-W; c. 30-40m N-S). There are no visible remains of an older structure at ground level. 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 February 2012 Amended: 4 Sep. 2013

• WX003-028002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying position within the valley of the W-E Inch River, with the stream c. 60m to the S. The church of Inismocholmoc or 'Colman's Island', (WX003-028001-) is within an irregularly-shaped graveyard (dims. c. 80m E-W; c. 30-40m N-S). There are no visible remains of an older structure at ground level. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 February, 2012

Architectural heritage

• Inch Church, church/chapel, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four- or six-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1831, on an rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (west) front; single-bay three-stage tower (south-east) on a square plan. "Restored", ----. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay or terracotta ridge tiles, cut-granite "slated" coping to gables on rendered kneelers, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered, ruled and lined buttresses on battered bases having roll moulded cut-granite "slated" coping. Lancet window openings with cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing replacement fixed-pane timber fittings. Lancet "Trinity Window" (east) with cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Lancet "Trinity Window" to entrance (west) front with cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing replacement fixed-pane timber fittings. Triangular-headed window opening (porch) with cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing replacement fixed-pane timber fitting. Square-headed opposing door openings ("cheeks") with cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing replacement timber boarded double doors. Interior including vestibule (west); square-headed door opening into nave with timber double doors; full-height interior open into roof "restored", ----, with carpeted central aisle between timber pews, cut-white marble scroll wall monument (1900) with polished brass opposing wall monument (1907), quatrefoil-detailed Gothic-style pulpit on an octagonal plan with quatrefoil-detailed Gothic-style clerk's desk, and encaustic tiled stepped dais to chancel (east) with foliate-detailed barley twist balusters supporting polished brass communion railing centred on crocketed Gothic-style reredos (1949) below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (1919). Set in landscaped grounds with rendered, ruled and lined piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed wrought 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

At the centre of the townland of Inch, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Inch.

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.

No address of the register names Inch with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Inch · An Inis

Area

480,824 m² (48.08 ha, 118.81 acres)

Civil parish

Inch (Gorey Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Ballylarkin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

938 people lived in 311 households in the Ballylarkin electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bolabradda, Cronecribbin, Killybegs, Macoyle Lower, Perrymount

Placenames

Inch 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.