Park
Park is a townland in the civil parish of Carrick, barony of Shelmaliere West, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Pháirc.
Parcel 4679802
- Area
- 120 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
- Park
Planning applications on this parcel
20 Dec 2023Refused
Permission for the proposed erection of 92 no. residential units within 3,4 and
Permission, 92 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231563
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
- 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3020 (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.
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
- 105.4 ha
- 260 acres
- Land parcels
- 127
- registered freehold, median 2,044 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 46
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
127 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Park, from 8 m² to 90,303 m² (9.03 ha, 22.31 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Park 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
30 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a 30m x 60m Astroturf training pitch with a
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260111
17 Dec 2025Granted (unconditional)
413 no. residential units (175 no. houses, 238 no. apartments), childcare
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, ABP-3080
30 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for removal of an off road parking bay and for the creation of a site
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251239
29 Apr 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for the following: 1. location of existing entrance 2.
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250498
13 Mar 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for proposed alterations/changes to the original grant
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250289
4 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the removal of condition 2 from approved Planning
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250119
6 Feb 2024Refused
Permission for the removal of Condition 2 from approved Planning Permission reg
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240100
20 Dec 2023Refused
Permission for the proposed erection of 92 no. residential units within 3,4 and
Permission, 92 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231563
6 Dec 2023Refused
Permission for the proposed demolition of an existing house and outbuildings
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231460
6 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a residential development
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231461
22 Nov 2023N/a
Permission for the proposed demolition of an existing house and outbuildings
Permission, 11 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231397
22 Nov 2023N/a
Permission for the proposed erection of a residential development
Permission, 37 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231398
12 Sept 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling and all associated site
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20231094
24 May 2023Refused
Permission for the proposed demolition of an existing house and outbuildings
Permission, 11 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230574
24 May 2023Refused
Permission for the proposed erection of a residential development
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230573
10 May 2023N/a
Permission for the proposed demolition of an existing house and outbuildings and
Permission, 11 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230506
10 May 2023N/a
Permission for the proposed erection of a residential development consisting of
Permission, 30 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230505
9 May 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230491
9 May 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230494
9 May 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230492
9 May 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230493
8 Dec 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a clubhouse including dressing rooms, indoor arena and car
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221622
26 Sept 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of the following: Solar panel array and garden room to
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221271
24 Feb 2022N/a
Permission for the following: New 2.4m high boundary fencing, new vehicular entr
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220231
29 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for 1. Retention of extension building to existing dwelling incorpor
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211844
The 25 most recent of 46 applications.
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
- 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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Park.
Architectural heritage
- Alma House, house, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built 1854, on an L-shaped plan; two-bay (west) or three-bay (east) two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1998. Renovated, 1999. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, paired rooflights to front (south) pitch, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging modillioned timber eaves on moulded rendered cornice retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Remodelled segmental-headed central door opening with granite flagged threshold, and moulded rendered surround framing timber panelled door having sidelights below fanlight. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (ground floor) with cut-granite sills, timber cruciform mullions, and rendered surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows having overlights. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (first floor) with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and rendered surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and picture railing below moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set in landscaped grounds.
- Alma House, gate lodge, 1850–1903 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, extant 1903, on a square plan; three-bay single-storey rear (east) elevation. Extended, 2004-5, producing present composition. Replacement hipped slate roof with ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stack having concrete capping supporting louvered terracotta pot, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging timber box eaves on moulded rendered cornice retaining cast-iron downpipes. Replacement cement rendered walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Remodelled square-headed door opening (north) with concrete step threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door. Remodelled square-headed window openings (south) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Alma House.
- Farmyard complex, 1842–1903 · Regional interest
Description
Farmyard complex, extant 1903, including (north): Detached two-bay single-storey coach house-cum-stable outbuilding with half-attic on a rectangular plan. Renovated, ----, to accommodate alternative use. Pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves. Coursed rubble "Old Red Sandstone" walls with rough hewn "Old Red Sandstone" flush quoins to corners. Square-headed door opening (west) with rendered surround framing timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window openings with concrete sills, and rendered surrounds framing fixed-pane timber fittings. Segmental-headed carriageway (east) with rendered surround framing timber boarded double doors. Set in relandscaped grounds on a corner site with part repointed coursed rubble "Old Red Sandstone" boundary wall to perimeter having lichen-spotted rounded coping.
- Water trough, 1842–1903 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding trough, extant 1903. Now disused. Road fronted on unkempt verge with part repointed coursed rubble "Old Red Sandstone" boundary wall to perimeter having lichen-spotted rounded coping.
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
- 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3020 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Park with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Park · An Pháirc
- Area
- 1,053,727 m² (105.37 ha, 260.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carrick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelmaliere West
- Electoral division
- Wexford Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 14,194 people lived in 5,189 households in the Wexford Rural electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyboggan, Carricklawn, Newtown, Stonybatter, Townparks
- Placenames
- Park 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.