Aughermon
Aughermon is a townland in the civil parish of Taghmon, barony of Shelmaliere West, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Eachair Munna.
- Area
- 132.3 ha
- 327 acres
- Land parcels
- 46
- registered freehold, median 4,225 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aughermon, from 258 m² to 229,647 m² (22.96 ha, 56.75 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Aughermon 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
12 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling, domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250984
18 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of an existing garage building
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241134
6 Sept 2024N/a
Permission for retention of an existing garage building at premises
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241084
7 Aug 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for a first floor dormer extension (74m2) with rooflights to the
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240945
26 Jul 2024N/a
Permission for a first floor dormer extension (74m2) with rooflights to the
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240895
6 Feb 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of extension (sunroom) to side of existing dwelling as
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240113
12 Sept 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the extension of an existing inert disposal site, for the filling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231087
12 May 2023N/a
Permission for the extension of an existing inert disposal site, for the filling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230517
18 Apr 2023N/a
Permission for the extension of an existing inert disposal site, for the filling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230400
26 Feb 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling, domestic garage and
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210267
7 Mar 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180261
19 May 2016Granted (conditional)
RETENTION OF THE SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION (46SQM) INCLUDING NEW ROOF WORKS T
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160527
25 Apr 2016Granted (conditional)
(1) PERMISSION TO USE PART OF EXISTING QUARRY TO RECOVER AND RECYCLE BUILDING MA
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160410
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 Aughermon.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aughermon.
Architectural heritage
- Post box, 1901–1903 · Regional interest
Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron "wall box" post box, extant 1903, with "ER [Edwardus Rex] VII" royal cipher. Set in cement rendered wall.
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 Aughermon, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aughermon.
- 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 Aughermon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Aughermon · Eachair Munna
- Area
- 1,323,418 m² (132.34 ha, 327.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taghmon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelmaliere West
- Electoral division
- Ballymitty, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 583 people lived in 210 households in the Ballymitty electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyknock, Coolraheen, Mongaun, Rochestown, Tullycanna
- Placenames
- Aughermon 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.