Bogganstown Upper

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bogganstown Upper, from 42 m² to 31,578 m² (3.16 ha, 7.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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 Bogganstown Upper 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.

• 13 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of a

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250992

• 23 Apr 2025Refused

  Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250473

• 18 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)

  Planning permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241580

• 31 Jul 2024Refused

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, garage and all

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240914

• 18 May 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced two storey dwelling,

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220652

• 25 Jan 2022Refused

  PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED TWO STOREY DWELLING, NEW ENTRANCE WA

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20170134

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 Bogganstown Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bogganstown Upper.

Architectural heritage

• Landscape House, farm house, 1785–1795 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey farmhouse, built 1790; extant 1798, on a square plan; three-bay two-storey rear (west) elevation. Sold, 1934. For sale, 1998. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks on axis with ridge having cut-granite chamfered stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves. Creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed roughcast walls. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, doorcase with engaged columns on plinths supporting cornice on blind frieze, and moulded rendered surround framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows having overlights. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (west) elevation centred on square-headed window opening (half-landing) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows centred on three-over-three (ground floor) or six-over-six (half-landing) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds with limewashed piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting 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 Bogganstown Upper, about 1 in 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3058 (ZIP).

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 Bogganstown Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Bogganstown Upper · Baile Uí Bheagáin Uachtarach

Area

106,492 m² (10.65 ha, 26.31 acres)

Civil parish

Drinagh, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Drinagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,114 people lived in 404 households in the Drinagh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolpeach, Jacketstown, Killiane, Rowestown

Placenames

Bogganstown Upper 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.