Mountnebo

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountnebo, from 1,176 m² to 113,906 m² (11.39 ha, 28.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Mountnebo 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 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)

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

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250207

• 3 Jul 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a steel framed shed for the purpose of vintage car storage

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230759

• 18 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to (1) upgrade on-site sewage treatment facilities and (2) revise

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20201572

• 18 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)

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

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20201571

• 18 Sept 2019Granted (conditional)

  (1) RETENTION OF PORCH CONSTRUCTED TO FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING AND (2)

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191289

• 2 Jun 2017Granted (conditional)

  1) PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF EXISTING CATTLE SHED PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PL.

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170682

• 8 May 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF WORKS TO EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING WHICH CONSISTS

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170563

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 Mountnebo.

Recorded monuments

• WX006-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 70m) in woodland only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated just off the S-facing crest at the E end of a W-E spur of Slievebaun. This is an oval enclosure (dims. 59m N–S; 49m E–W) within a coniferous forest defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2–3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.5–1m), with an external V-shaped fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.3m). There is no visible entrance. It is visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (2005) where the trees have been removed and it is bisected by an E-W forestry road. It remains unplanted in the renewed forest (Bing images 2011). Rath (WX005-031----) is c. 200m to the E. 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: 1 March 2012 Amended: 14 May, 2014

• WX006-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a rectangular wood on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map and situated on an E-facing slope off the E tip of a W-E spur of Slievebaun Hill. This is a square area with rounded corners or a subcircular area (dims. 52m NW-SE; 52m NE-SW) within a coniferous forest defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-3m; H 0.4m) with an external fosse (Wth 2m; D below exterior 0.4m). There is no visible entrance, but two low banks (Wth 2.5m; H 0.2m) run through the interior parallel with the NW and SE sides and 8m distant from them. Rath (WX005-030----) is c. 200m to the W, and this site has been classified as a moated site (Barry 1977, 224, WX 87). 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: 1 March 2012

Architectural heritage

• Mount Saint Benedict, country house, 1855–1887 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey country house, extant 1887, on a U-shaped plan with single-bay full-height advanced end bays. Occupied, 1901. Sold, 1907, to accommodate alternative use. Extended, 1908, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Closed, 1925. Sold, ----. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, rendered chamfered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on "Cavetto" cornice retaining cast-iron square profile downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed coursed rubble stone walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on plinth with cut- or hammered granite flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement including square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (first floor), timber mullions, and flush surrounds having thumbnail beaded reveals with hood mouldings framing timber casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds including terraces centred on flights of four steps.

• Mount Saint Benedict, farmyard complex, 1855–1901 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, extant 1901, including: Detached five-bay single-storey coach house-cum-stable outbuilding with half-attic on a U-shaped plan with single-bay (two-bay deep) full-height projecting end bays. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan centred on gablets to window openings to half-attic with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, rendered red brick Running bond chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping, and no rainwater goods surviving on box eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast walls with concealed flush quoins to corners. Square-headed door openings with rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing remains of timber boarded doors. Square-headed window openings (half-attic) with rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing remains of timber fittings. Paired segmental-headed carriageways (end bays) with rendered "bas-relief" surrounds. Set in grounds shared with Mount Saint Benedict.

• Mount Saint Benedict, gate lodge, 1885–1901 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge with dormer attic, occupied 1901, on a rectangular plan. Renovated, ----. Pitched slate with roll moulded terracotta ridge tiles centred on tuck pointed granite ashlar chimney stack having lichen-covered capping, perforated decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with timber finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Tuck pointed coursed or snecked rubble stone walls with margined cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, and margined cut-granite block-and-start surrounds framing timber casement windows having lattice glazing bars. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Mount Saint Benedict.

• Mount Saint Benedict, gates/railings/walls, 1885–1901 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, extant 1901, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of tuck pointed margined granite ashlar piers having pyramidal capping. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Mount Saint Benedict.

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 Mountnebo, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Mountnebo · Ráithín an Chuilinn

Area

1,575,710 m² (157.57 ha, 389.37 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnahue, and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Kilnahue, the unit of the census

Census 2022

488 people lived in 159 households in the Kilnahue electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bolany, Grove Great, Grove Little, Hollyfort, Kilmichael Lower, Kilmichael Upper, Kilmichaelhill, Slievebaun

Placenames

Mountnebo 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.