Aughnagan

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aughnagan, from 3,318 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres) to 247,408 m² (24.74 ha, 61.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Aughnagan 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.

• 22 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the development of solar PV. Permission

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251044

• 10 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission to amend the design of the approved development (Planning reference:

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230233

• 15 Feb 2023N/a

  Permission to amend the design of the approved development (Planning Reference:

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230147

• 8 Sept 2020Refused

  Permission for 1no. dwelling approx. 250m2 with waste water treatment system

  Outline permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201034

• 23 Jun 2020Refused

  Permission for 2no. dwellings approx250m2 each with separate waste water

  Outline permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20200670

• 23 Aug 2017N/a

  PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT ON SITE OF CIRCA 32.15 HECTARES TO CONSIST OF: A 10 Y

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171128

• 13 Jan 2017Refused

  PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT ON A SITE OF CIRCA 32.15 HECTARES IN THE TOWNLAND OF

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170022

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 Aughnagan.

Recorded monuments

• WX041-025 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Land at Aughnagan was held by the Hore family from the mid-16th century at least (Jeffrey 1979, 93), but the only reference to the castle is in the Civil Survey (1654-6) when the ruined castle and 80 acres were owned by William Hore (Simington 1953, 99). It is situated on a slight W-facing slope at the edge of a farm complex. Only the ground floor survives (ext. dims. c. 6.1m N S; c. 5.8m E W; int. dims 3.98m N-S; 3.41m E-W; H 2.4m) with much of the external facing stones removed; it is now used as a cattle shed. Three embrasures, one with a double splayed loop, are the only original features. 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: 19 March, 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Aughnagan.

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 Aughnagan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Aughnagan · Áth na gCeann

Area

549,368 m² (54.94 ha, 135.75 acres)

Civil parish

Coolstuff, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere West

Electoral division

Harperstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Harperstown electoral division: 560 people in 185 households; 91% 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

Harperstown, Tracystown East, Tullispark, Waddingtown, Youngstown

Placenames

Aughnagan 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.