Monroe
Monroe is a townland in the civil parish of Killisk, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Mhóin Rua.
Parcel 4662291
- Area
- 275 m²
- 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
- Monroe
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 10 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 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
- 63.1 ha
- 156 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 4,080 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monroe, from 275 m² to 124,193 m² (12.42 ha, 30.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Monroe 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
21 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)
RED III Application Permission for a c.600 kWp RED III Development
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260060
23 Dec 2025N/a
Permission for a c.600 kWp renewable energy solar PV installation consisting
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251733
4 Dec 2025N/a
Permission for a c.600 kWp renewable energy solar PV installation consisting of
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251595
7 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for (a) demolition and removal of existing domestic garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240646
24 Jun 2022Refused
Permission for the proposed erection of (a) new games room, gym & home office
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220841
5 Aug 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for erection of dwelling house, domestic garage/shed and associated s
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200892
10 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO AN EXISTIN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191624
1 Jun 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE RELOCATION / CHANGE OF POSITION OF AN AGRICULTURAL GATE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170674
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 Monroe.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Monroe.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monroe.
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 Monroe, about 1 in 10 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 Monroe.
- 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 Monroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Monroe · An Mhóin Rua
- Area
- 631,192 m² (63.12 ha, 155.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killisk, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Castle Ellis, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,284 people lived in 454 households in the Castle Ellis electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintaggart, Ballybaun, Ballyroe (Nunn), Newfort
- Placenames
- Monroe 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.