Aughfad

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aughfad, from 1,875 m² to 481,058 m² (48.11 ha, 118.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Aughfad 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.

• 27 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a fully serviced dwelling, separate garage and access drive

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221020

• 4 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)

  Retention permission for an existing garage

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220892

• 15 Jun 2022N/a

  Permission to erect a fully serviced dwelling, separate garage and access drive

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220799

• 4 Sept 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO EXTENSIONS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171194

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 Aughfad.

Recorded monuments

• WX041-076 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the W-facing slope towards the S end of a NNE-SSW ridge. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse is visible only on iMAPs (2022). The perimeter is incorporated into a field bank SE-S, and what might be a single pit is visible in the SW quadrant of the interior. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from iMAPs (2022) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 June 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aughfad.

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.

No address of the register names Aughfad with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Aughfad · Áth Fada

Area

1,770,169 m² (177.02 ha, 437.42 acres)

Civil parish

Coolstuff, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere West

Electoral division

Taghmon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Taghmon electoral division: 1,201 people in 444 households; 59% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blastknock, Coolaw, Harperstown, Harveystown, Newtown, Siginshaggard, Yolegrew

Placenames

Aughfad 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.