Park

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.

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.

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Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Park, 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, partly 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.

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

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.