Windgap
Townland in the civil parish of Dungarvan, barony of Decies Without Drum, Co. Waterford; in Irish Bearna na Gaoithe
- Area
- 121.8 ha
- 301 acres
- Land parcels
- 60
- registered freehold, median 4,973 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Windgap, from 47 m² to 272,232 m² (27.22 ha, 67.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Windgap 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
10 Sept 2026N/a
To construct new slurry storage tank and all associated site works.
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2695
23 Jul 2026N/a
to construct new slurry storage tank and all associated site works.
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2673
4 Mar 2025Conditional
for side elevation conservatory
Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2560129
15 Aug 2024Conditional
to retain indefinitely a circular window & double doors to the southeast elevation of the existing garage No. 1 and, retention permission to retain indefinitely a material change of use of garage No. 2 to detached home office along with all ancillary services
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2460468
6 Aug 2024N/a
permission to retain indefinitely a circular window & double doors to the southeast elevation of the existing garage No. 1 and, retention permission to retain indefinitely a material change of use of garage No. 2 to detached home office along with all ancillary services
Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2460452
12 Feb 2024Conditional
to demolish the existing detached Garage and construct a new detached Garage / Recreational workshop and ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2460063
15 Jul 2021Conditional
(i) seomra fóntais ag cúl an áitribh a scartáil, (ii) cuid den seomra suí atá ann faoi láthair ag aghaidh an áitribh a scartáil, (iii) síneadh nua aon stóir a thógáil ag aghaidh an áitribh atá ann faoi láthair (iv) athrú chuig an díon atá ann faoi láthair agus díon monachlaonadh a dhéanamh as agus (v) córas cóireála, láthair shíothlúcháin agus oibreacha gaolmhara forbartha an láithreáin ar fad
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 21687
27 Apr 2017Conditional
the construction of a garage to the Southwest of the existing dwelling house along with all ancillary services
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 17292
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Windgap.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Windgap.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Windgap.
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
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Windgap.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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
- Windgap, Dungarvan6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Windgap · Bearna na Gaoithe
- Area
- 1,217,762 m² (121.78 ha, 300.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dungarvan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Decies Without Drum
- Electoral division
- Dungarvan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dungarvan Rural electoral division: 2,096 people in 699 households; 73% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barranalira, Glen More, Killongford, Pulla, Reanaviddoge, Shanakill
- Placenames
- Windgap 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.