Bawnmore
Townland in the civil parish of St. Mary'S, barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Bán Mór
- Area
- 41.1 ha
- 102 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 699 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bawnmore, from 15 m² to 55,390 m² (5.54 ha, 13.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Bawnmore 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
14 Jul 2026N/a
Permission for the construction of entrance walls, piers and associated site
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260932
10 Aug 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of a change of use of an attic storage area to
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230923
14 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced single storey dwelling house inc
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220489
6 Dec 2021Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced single storey dwelling house inc
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211895
28 Jun 2021Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic gara
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211013
1 Jul 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190925
13 Feb 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A COMMERCIAL SHED TO BE USED FOR STEEL FABRICATIO
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190185
19 Feb 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED EXTENSION & AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING DWELLING, INCLUDING A
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160157
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Barrow River Estuary 000698
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bawnmore.
Architectural heritage
- Water pump, 1905–1939 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cast-iron "cow tail" waterpump, extant 1939. Now disused. Set back from line of road on grass verge.
- Bawnmore House, gates/railings/walls, 1842–1902 · Regional interest
Description
Gateway, extant 1902, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of finial-topped cast-iron octagonal piers supporting looped wrought iron double gates with finial-topped cast-iron octagonal outer piers supporting looped wrought iron railings. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Bawnmore House.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2520 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bawnmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Bawnmore · An Bán Mór
- Area
- 411,438 m² (41.14 ha, 101.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Mary'S, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- New Ross Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- New Ross Rural electoral division: 4,164 people in 1,475 households; 52% of households own their home; 54% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyroe Lower, Castlemoyle, Commons Or Newtown, Healysland, Irishtown, Knockavilla, Macmurroughs, Maudlins, Morrissysland, Redhouse
- Placenames
- Bawnmore 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.