Begerin (Loftus)
Townland in the civil parish of Oldross, barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish Beigéirinn (Loftus)
- Area
- 145.4 ha
- 359 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 3,730 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Begerin (Loftus), from 14 m² to 314,273 m² (31.43 ha, 77.66 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Begerin (Loftus) 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
21 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for a new agricultural building incorporating a robotic milking unit
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260482
10 Jun 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the demolition of existing garage and construction of an
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250694
23 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the removal of an old farmhouse and replacement with
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20241306
1 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention and completion of a domestic garage and home
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230623
3 May 2023N/a
Permission for the retention and completion of a domestic garage and home office
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230469
30 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of an agricultural building incorporating milkin
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201438
25 Aug 2020Refused
Planning permission for the construction of an agricultural building incorporati
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200985
7 Aug 2020N/a
Permission for the Construction of an agricultural building incorporating
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200906
25 Mar 2020Refused
Permission for the construction of an agricultural building incorporating
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200375
22 Nov 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING (A) CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTRUAL BUILDING TO
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191554
9 Aug 2018Granted (conditional)
RETENTION PERMISSION FOR AN EXISTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS INSTALLATION COMPRISED
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20181095
19 Jul 2018N/a
RETENTION PERMISSION FOR AN EXISTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS INSTALLATION COMPRISED
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180985
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 Begerin (Loftus).
Recorded monuments
- WX030-046 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circular bivallate enclosure (ext. diam. c. 80m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a local rise. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 45-50m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 1m) and hedge NW-NE and by a scarp elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. A field bank with a drain on its S side runs through the interior from the perimeter at NW to the centre and then turns 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: 15 August, 2012
- WX030-047 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Marked as circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated in a slight fold in a fairly level landscape. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. The following above 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: 15 August, 2012
- WX030-102 Burnt mound
Description
Located on a slight NE-facing slope with the headwaters of a small N-S stream c. 230m to the E. An area of broken and burnt stone (diam. 13m) is visible when the area is ploughed. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 December, 2013
- WX035-001 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as Tobarnabobaunia in gothic script on both. The name is more properly Tobar na Bó Báine - the white cow's well (pers. comm. C. Ó Crualaoich). It is situated at the bottom of the steep-sided valley of a W-E stream, with the stream c. 5m to the S. It is not visible at ground level in pasture and there is no evidence that it was ever venerated. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 October, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Begerin (Loftus).
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Begerin (Loftus).
- 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 Begerin (Loftus) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Begerin (Loftus) · Beigéirinn (Loftus)
- Area
- 1,454,011 m² (145.4 ha, 359.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Oldross, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Rochestown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rochestown electoral division: 265 people in 84 households; 93% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacar, Begerin (Lloyd), Cushenstown, Lacken, Rochestown, Ryleen
- Placenames
- Begerin (Loftus) 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.