Monroe

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monroe, from 80 m² to 321,349 m² (32.13 ha, 79.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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 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.

• 28 Jan 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention for the groundworks enabling the construction

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250096

• 3 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a domestic garage/store and associated

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241496

• 28 Aug 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a development comprising of a proposed 2 storey dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230997

• 1 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of a first floor attic conversion/extension to an exist

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210481

• 25 Jul 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A POTATO STORAGE SHED.

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191064

• 17 Jul 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A WASTE FACILITY FOR THE DEPOSITION OF SURPL

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170925

• 2 Aug 2016Granted (conditional)

  A) RETENTION OF UNAUTHORISED EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, B) PERMISSIO

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160872

• 30 May 2016Refused

  ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WOR

  Outline permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160586

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 Monroe.

Recorded monuments

• WX026-026 Moated site
  Description

  Marked as a rectangular feature (dims c. 30m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and a subrectangular moated site (ext. dims c. 50m NW-SE; c. 45m NE-SW) on the 1940 ed. It is located on a W-facing slope. This is a rectangular grass and scrub-covered area (dims. 28m NE-SW; 25m NW-SE) defined by a flat bottomed moat (Wth 6m; D 1m) on all sides except the N where it has been truncated by farm buildings. There is an inner bank (Wth 4m; H 0.3m) at W. 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: 11 July 2012

• WX026-069 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated at the crest of a W-facing slope. The faint cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 25m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW) defined by a slight fosse feature and truncated by a NE-SW road at SE is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX026-069_1 to _4) taken in 2004. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 July, 2012

• WX026-090001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Monroe 1 (Hardy et al. 2010, 15). It is situated in the slight valley of a NE-SW stream, which was c. 10m to the NW but is now channelled into a drain c. 180m to the NW. It was excavated (E4271) by C. Hardy who recorded a spread of broken and burnt stone (dims 9m N-S; 2.5m E-W; max. T 0.4m), which overlay a rectangular trough (dims 1.04m NE-SW; 1m NW-SE; D 0.4m). There were no other features apart from a NE-SW channel c. 10m to the NW, which is probably the original stream. A sample from the primary fill of the trough produced a C14 date of Cal. BC 2135-1953. The burnt mound (WX026-090002-) is c. 20m to the NE. (McNamara 2011; Hardy 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 November, 2013

• WX026-090002 Burnt mound
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Monroe 2 (Hardy et al. 2010, 15-6). It is situated in the slight valley of a NE-SW stream, which was c. 10m to the NW but is now channelled into a drain c. 180m to the NW. It was excavated (E4270) by C. Hardy who recorded a spread of broken and burnt stone (dims 13.2m N-S; 10.95m E-W; max. T 0.15m), which overlay the edge of a gully at E, but no trough or other features were recorded. Fulacht fia (WX026-090001-) is c. 20m to the SW and burnt mound (WX026-090003-) is c. 35m to the NE. (McNamara 2011; Hardy 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 November, 2013

• WX026-090003 Burnt mound
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Monroe 3 (Hardy et al. 2010, 16). It is situated in the slight valley of a NE-SW stream, which was c. 10m to the NW but is now channelled into a drain c. 150m to the NW. It was excavated (E4274) by C. Hardy who recorded a spread of broken and burnt stone (dims 4.25m NE-SW; 2.2m NW-SE; max. T 0.2m), which was at the edge of a natural depression at SE, but no trough or other features were recorded. The burnt mound (WX026-090002-) is c. 35m to the SW, while the fulachta fia (WX026-090004-; WX026-090005-) are c. 65m to the ENE and c. 95m to the NNE respectively. (Hardy 2011, 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 November, 2013

• WX026-090004 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Monroe 4 (Hardy et al. 2010, 16). It is situated in the slight valley of a NE-SW stream, which was c. 90m to the NW but is now channelled into a drain c. 230m to the NW. It was excavated (E4273) by C. Hardy who recorded a small spread of broken and burnt stone (dims 2.35m x 1.8m; max. T 0.2m), which overlay a subcircular, flat-bottomed trough (dims 2.3m x 2.08m; D 0.48m) that had been bisected by a N-S drain, but no other features were recorded. The burnt mound (WX026-039003-) is c. 65m to the WSW and the fulacht fia (WX026-090005-) is c. 80m to the NNW. (Hardy 2011; 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 November, 2013

• WX026-090005 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Monroe 5 (Hardy et al. 2010, 16-17). It is situated in the slight valley of a NE-SW stream, which was c. 10m to the NW but is now channelled into a drain c. 150m to the NW. It was excavated (E4272) by C. Hardy who recorded a spread of broken and burnt stone (dims 6.71m N-S; 5.85m E-W; max. T 0.22m), which overlay a rectangular trough (dims 1.89m N-S; 0.83m E-W; D 0.38m). This had 15 stake-holes along the E and SE that probably represented a wind-break. There were no other features apart from a NE-SW channel immediately to the NW, which is probably the original stream. A sample from the mound material produced a C14 date of Cal. BC 1880-1695. The fulacht fia (WX026-090004-) is c. 80m to the SSE and the burnt mound (WX026-090003-) is c. 95m to the SSW. (McNamara 2012; Hardy 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 November, 2013

• WX026-103 Charcoal-making site
  Description

  Situated in the slight valley at the headwaters of a NE-SW stream. Archaeological testing (E004893) of an area required for the construction phase of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy motorway in January 2017 (Kavanagh 2017) identified archaeological features in three areas (excavations.ie 2017:147) which were excavated (E004922) in November 2017 as Monroe 6 (excavations.ie 2017:313), although one is probably post-medieval drainage that is not mapped. Area 1 consisted of a small pit (dims 1.22m x 0.85m; D 0.1m) filled with two layers of grey sand with charcoal flecks over a charcoal-rich silty sand which in turn was over an oxidised red clay. About 24m to the WSW was a small flat-bottomed subrectangular pit (dims 1.36m x 0.77m; D 0.11m) with a fire-reddened clay base, above which was a layer of charcoal and a sealing layer of grey clayey silt. These are interpreted as a charcoal-making pits or clamps. No artefacts were recovered. (Kavanagh 2018, 9-11) See the attached plan from Kavanagh (2018, fig. 5) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 November 2020

• WX026-104 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated in the slight valley at the headwaters of a NE-SW stream, and on a SE-facing slope at the edge of a possible NE-SW palaeo-channel (Wth 1.9m; D 0.5m) filled with alluvial deposits. Archaeological testing (E004893) of an area required for the construction phase of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy motorway in January 2017 (Kavanagh 2017) identified archaeological features (excavations.ie 2017:147) in three areas which were excavated (E004922) in November 2017 as Monroe 6 (excavations.ie 2017:313), although one is probably post-medieval drainage which is not mapped. Area 2 consists of six spreads of broken and burnt stone creating a rough mound (dims c. 13m N-S x c. 4m; T 0.08-0.22m) overlying two subrectangular pits (dims 1.2m x 1.1m; D 0.3m: 1.55m x 0.7m; D 0.3m) filled with silts and heat-shattered stones which may have functioned as troughs. Four pits (dims 1m x 0.4m; D 0.2m to 1.44m x 1.34m; D 0.6m) were beneath the burnt mound and filled with gravelly or sandy silts with burnt stone while some smaller pits were cut from levels within the mound. A large rectangular trough (dims 2.45m x 1.8m; D 0.2m) filled with broken and burnt stone was W of the mound, and a slight V-shaped channel (L 1.6m; Wth 0.16m; D 0.16m) led NE from it through the mound. The trough had a wooden base and four planks from it survived. A subcircular pit (dims 2.05m x 1.62m; D 0.3m) c. 20m SW of the mound was filled with sandy silts with some brushwood fragments and could have been another trough. The area was cut by later drains and few artefacts were recovered. (Kavanagh 2018, 11-23) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 November 2020

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).

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 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.

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

Name

Monroe · An Mhóin Rua

Area

1,078,116 m² (107.81 ha, 266.41 acres)

Civil parish

Edermine, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen South

Electoral division

Edermine, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,597 people lived in 537 households in the Edermine electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybanoge, Ballyrannel, Ballyroe, Ballyvake, Craanroe, Glenteige, Knockrathkyle, Riverview

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.