Aughclare
Aughclare is a townland in the civil parish of Ballybrazil, barony of Shelburne, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Áth Cláir.
- Area
- 193 ha
- 477 acres
- Land parcels
- 71
- registered freehold, median 4,777 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aughclare, from 20 m² to 313,043 m² (31.3 ha, 77.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Aughclare 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
6 Apr 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an underground slurry holding tank together
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230367
4 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the conversion of an existing garage loft to a hobby and craft ro
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220131
4 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully sericed dwelling house, garage and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211704
12 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic gara
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210337
1 Feb 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, carport, on-sit
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210123
16 Nov 2020Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20201350
2 Dec 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLINGHOUSE AND DOMESTIC
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191588
26 Aug 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191195
10 Jun 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190807
16 Nov 2018Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181581
15 Feb 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING-HOUSE, GARAGE AND ALL
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170163
15 Jul 2016Refused
PERMISSION FOR A CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT CURRENTLY GRANTED UNDER
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160801
20 Apr 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160397
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 Aughclare.
Recorded monuments
- WX034-046 Moated site
Description
Marked as small rectangular embanked or moated enclosure (ext. dims. c. 35m NE-SW: c. 30m NW-SE) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and located on a gentle E-facing slope at the E foothills of Slievecoiltia. It is not visible at ground level in pasture, but it may be a moated site (Barry 1977, 213, WX 5). Moated site (WX034-047----) is c. 20m to the NE. 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: 12 September, 2012
- WX034-047 Moated site
Description
Marked as small rectangular embanked or moated enclosure (ext. dims. c. 45m NW-SE: c. 40m NE-SW) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and located on a steep E-facing slope at the E foothills of Slievecoiltia. A sunken rectangular grass-covered area (dims. 30m E-W; 16m N-S; D 0.4-0.8m) is visible. It may be a moated site (Barry 1977, 213, WX 4). Moated site (WX034-046----) is c. 20m to the SW. 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: 12 September, 2012
- WX034-048 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Marked as a small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated on a level landscape in the E foothills of Sievecoiltia. It is not visible at ground level in poor pasture. 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: 12 September, 2012
- WX034-049 Moated site
Description
Marked as an oval embanked or moated enclosure (ext. dims. c. 40m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a level landscape in the E foothills of Sievecoiltia. This is a raised, rectangular, grass-covered area (dims. c. 35m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.3-1.5m) with a moat (Wth of top 6-8m; ext. D 0.3-1m) and outer bank (Wth 3-4m; H c. 0.2m) on the E and S sides. It is truncated by a NE-SW field bank at N and does not survive N of this feature. An old stream bed is adjacent to the SE. 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: 12 September, 2012
- WX034-050 Church
Description
Marked faintly as a subrectangular feature (dims c. 20m N-S; c. 12m E-W) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as 'Site of chapel'. It is located at the lowest point in a level landscape. This is a slightly sunken grass and rush-covered D-shaped area (dims. c. 30m E-W; c. 18m N-S). It may be the site of a Catholic church but there are no visible remains of a structure, enclosure or burial at ground level. 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: 12 September, 2012
Architectural heritage
- Kiln, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding single-oven single-stage lime kiln, extant 1840, on a square plan. Now disused. Creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone battered walls with overgrown coping to parapet. Single elliptical-headed oven with rubble stone voussoirs. Road fronted with unkempt grass verge to front.
- Post box, 1910–1922 · Regional interest
Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron "lamp box" post box, between 1910-22; extant 1922, with "GR [Georgius Rex]" royal cipher. Set in rendered wall.
- Water pump, 1905–1922 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cast-iron "cow tail" waterpump, extant 1922. Now disused. Road fronted on grass verge with cement rendered boundary wall to perimeter having concrete 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Aughclare, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aughclare.
- 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 Aughclare with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Aughclare · Áth Cláir
- Area
- 1,929,804 m² (192.98 ha, 476.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballybrazil, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelburne
- Electoral division
- Whitechurch, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 678 people lived in 227 households in the Whitechurch electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aclamon, Ballymaclare, Ballysop, Curraghduff, Slievecoiltia Commons, Tellarought
- Placenames
- Aughclare 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.