Borris

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Borris, from 211 m² to 357,009 m² (35.7 ha, 88.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Borris 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.

• 29 May 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a two storey clubhouse comprising dressing rooms

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260702

• 17 Feb 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a split level two-storey dwelling with services, domestic

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260189

• 22 Apr 2025N/a

  Permission to erect a split level two-storey dwelling with services, domestic ga

  Permission, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250469

• 17 Oct 2023Refused

  Permission to erect a split level two-storey dwelling with services, domestic

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20231238

• 2 May 2023Refused

  Permission to erect a split level two-storey dwelling with services

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230468

• 11 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of works to date and permission to complete the

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211744

• 19 May 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect perimeter lighting to existing walking track and all associa

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210757

• 7 May 2021N/a

  Permission to erect perimeter lightingto existing walking track and all associat

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210695

• 1 Jul 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for proposed 3 No. playing pitches, proposed entrance, driveway and p

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200707

• 18 Jun 2020N/a

  Permission for propsed 3 no. playing pitches, proposed entrance, driveway and

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200656

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 Borris.

Recorded monuments

• WX010-002001 Moated site
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape, with a N-S stream c. 160m to the NW. In 1583 the castle of Borrishamon was leased to Sir Thomas Materson (Jeffrey 1979, 219), and the Civil Survey (1654-6) records a descendent, Edward, as the proprietor of a 'small broken castle' together with 1000 acres in Borris, Kiltilly, Knocknalour, Ballynaberny adn Ballycadden townlands in Kilrush parish(Simington 1953, 261). This is a rectangular grass-covered area (dims 31m N–S; 26m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.5m) at E, a slight moat (Wth 8m) at S and W, and a wall and gatehouse at the N side. The gate-house is placed close to the NW angle and consists of two walls of a passage (int. Wth 2.5m; L 5.35m) but the vault is largely destroyed. One hinge stone from a draw bridge survives, and there is a long draw-bar socket (L 4m) on the E side. The wall on the N side extends beyond the gatehouse, and there is also a fragment of wall on the E side. 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: 10 April, 2012 Amended: 13 May, 2014

• WX010-002002 Gatehouse
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape, with a N-S stream c. 160m to the NW. In 1583 the castle of Borrishamon was leased to Sir Thomas Materson (Jeffrey 1979, 219), and the the Civil Survey (1654-6) records a descendent, Edward, as the proprietor of a 'small broken castle' together with 1000 acres in Borris, Kiltilly, Knocknalour, Ballynaberny adn Ballycadden townlands in Kilrush parish(Simington 1953, 261). This is a rectangular moated site (WX010-002001-) defended by a wall and gatehouse on the N side. The gate-house is placed close to the NW angle and consists of two walls of a passage (int. Wth 2.5m; L 5.35m) but the vault is largely destroyed. One hinge stone from a draw bridge survives, and there is a long draw-bar socket (L 4m) on the E side. The wall on the N side extends beyond the gatehouse, and there is also a fragment of wall on the E side. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 April, 2012 Amended: 13 May, 2014

• WX010-036 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Located on a slight NW slope with a small NE-SW stream c. 160m to the NW. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m) defined by a single fosse is visible only on Google Earth (14/07/2018). It was first reported by Simon Dowling. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 February 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Borris, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Borris · An Bhuiríos

Area

1,164,650 m² (116.47 ha, 287.79 acres)

Civil parish

Kilrush, and its townlands

Barony

Scarawalsh

Electoral division

Kilrush, the unit of the census

Census 2022

476 people lived in 175 households in the Kilrush electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynaberny, Ballyroebuck, Bolinahaney, Graigue More, Knockanure

Placenames

Borris 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.