Annaghgap
Annaghgap is a townland in the civil parish of Kilnahue, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Bearna na hEanaí.
- Area
- 153.5 ha
- 379 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 3,705 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Annaghgap, from 141 m² to 774,378 m² (77.44 ha, 191.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Annaghgap 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
17 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house with detached domestic g
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210955
14 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a single storey dwelling with services, which will consist o
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210930
14 May 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to remove existing log cabin and mobile home from site and permission
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210738
29 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION OF CHANGE OF SITE BOUNDARIES FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190572
27 Jan 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160055
18 Jan 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160031
11 Jan 2016N/a
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160011
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 Annaghgap.
Recorded monuments
- WX002-013 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Located towards the bottom of a NE-facing slope overlooking the N-S Wicklow Gap, with a N-S stream c. 150m to the E. It is marked as a circular embanked enclosure on the 1841 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map and is visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP T 39/40). This is a circular grass and bracken-covered area (diam. 32m) defined by drystone wall (Wth 1.5-2.5m; H 0.5-1 m). There are entrance gaps (Wth 1.5m) at S and 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: 27 July 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Annaghgap.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Annaghgap, 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 Annaghgap.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Annaghgap with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Annaghgap · Bearna na hEanaí
- Area
- 1,534,554 m² (153.46 ha, 379.2 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
- Annagh Central, Annagh Long, Annagh Upper, Annaghhill, Ballynabarney, Ballythomashill, Clonroe Lower
- Placenames
- Annaghgap 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.