Cummer

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cummer, from 14 m² to 207,122 m² (20.71 ha, 51.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Cummer 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.

• 25 May 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a dwelling house along with domestic garage

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230589

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 Cummer.

Recorded monuments

• WX002-039 Fulacht fia
  Description

  According to Kinahan (1879-88, 156) a mound of broken and burnt sandstone was just 30m S of a ring-cairn (WX002-044----) at Cummer. Its precise location is unknown, but it was close to a well called the Druids Well at what was then a concentrated settlement and is now developed as a farmyard. It was situated towards the top of a S-facing slope just down from a col between low hills c. 400m to the W and E and c. 40-50m higher than the col. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 31 January, 2012

• WX002-042 Flat cemetery
  Description

  According to Kinahan (1879-88, 156) three cists containing urns were found W of a ring-cairn (WX002-044----) at Cummer c. 1840. One urn contained a pygmy cup, which is now in NMI (Kavanagh 1977, 89). The precise location of the cemetery is unknown, but it was in an area then occupied as a concentrated settlement, and now developed as a farmyard. It was situated towards the top of a S-facing slope just down from a col between low hills c. 400m to the W and E and c. 40-50m higher than the col. 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: 1 February, 2012

• WX002-043 Cist
  Description

  According to Kinahan (1879-88, 156) a cist containing an urn and ashes was found c. 20m NW of the ring-cairn (WX002-044----) c. 1877. This was probably part of the flat cemetery (WX002-042----). Its precise location is unknown, but it was in an area then occupied as a concentrated settlement, and now developed as a farmyard. It was situated towards the top of a S-facing slope just down from a col between low hills c. 400m to the W and E and c. 40-50m higher than the col. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 1 February, 2012

• WX002-044 Cairn - ring-cairn
  Description

  The precise location of this monument is unknown, but it was in an area occupied as a concentrated settlement in the late 19th century, and is now developed as a farmyard. It was situated towards the top of a S-facing slope just down from a col between low hills c. 400m to the W and E and c. 40-50m higher than the col. It was described by Kinahan (1879-88) as two concentric circles of stones (diams c. 3m and c. 4m), one within the other, enclosing and partly overlying four pits filled with ashes and burnt stone. There was burnt stones and ashes between the rings N-E and S-W, and both the stones and pits were covered with a clay mantle (ext. diam. c. 6-8m). The cairn was at the centre of a complex area where a cist (WX002-043----) and a flat cemetery (WX002-0042----) had been discovered on separate occasions, and there was a fulacht fia (WX002-039----) nearby. The ring-cairn was listed as a possible Linkardstown-type cist (Ryan 1981, 146). 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 February 2012

• WX002-062 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in rough pasture on a gentle S-facing slope with the headwaters of the N-S River Lask c. 130m to the W. This is a circular area (diam. 25.5m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-3m; int. H 1-2m; ext. H 1-2m) with an external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.4m) N-E-S. Elsewhere there is a stream. The entrance (Wth 3m) is at S. 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 February 2012.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cummer.

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 Cummer, 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 Cummer.

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

Name

Cummer · An Comar

Area

1,433,497 m² (143.35 ha, 354.22 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnahue, and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Wingfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,045 people lived in 328 households in the Wingfield electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Askakeel, Buckstown, Cummerduff, Deerpark, Hillbrook Upper (Co. Wicklow), Knocknagapple, Racecourse

Placenames

Cummer 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.