Carrig
Townland in the civil parish of Kilpipe, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Charraig
- Area
- 177.2 ha
- 438 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 5,172 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrig, from 427 m² to 1,303,615 m² (130.36 ha, 322.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Carrig 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
28 Sept 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for (a) alterations to elevations and dwelling height
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221286
21 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for a dwelling house with attached familt flat and domestic garage wi
Permission, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211172
12 Jul 2021N/a
Permission for a dwelling house with attached family flat and domestic garage wi
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211104
30 Jun 2021N/a
Permission for a dwelling house with attached family flat and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211030
9 Oct 2020Refused
Permission for a Dwelling house with attached Family Flat and detached domestic
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20201166
29 Oct 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED FAMILY FLAT AND DETACHED DOMESTIC
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20191453
21 Oct 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED FAMILY FLAT AND DETACHED DOMESTIC
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20191428
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 Carrig.
Recorded monuments
- WX001-005 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located in a coniferous forest on a S-facing slope of Carrig Hill and c. 120m N of an E-W stream. Subcircular area (diam. 47.2m E-W; 40m N-S) defined by earthen bank with possible stone cladding (Wth 2.7-3.9m; int. H 0.5-0.9m; ext. H 1m) with an external fosse (Wth of top 3.2m; D 0.3-0.6m) and outer bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.2-0.4m) (max. ext. diam. 55m E-W; 47.5m N-S). There is no visible entrance. Souterrain (WX001-008----) is located c. 50m to the N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996) compiled by Michael Moore. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 18 October 2011
- WX001-008 Souterrain
Description
Located in a coniferous forest on a S-facing slope of Carrig Hill and c. 200m N of an E-W stream. It is surrounded by a cairn (diam. 6m; H 0.25-0.6m) and visible on surface, with two clearance cairns in the vicinity. A length of passage (L 3.85m; Wth 0.6-0.85m) with two lintels in place is visible. It is situated c. 50m N of rath (WX001-005----). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' compiled by: Michael Moore (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: 21 October 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrig.
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 high, 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 Carrig.
- 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 Carrig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Carrig · An Charraig
- Area
- 1,771,541 m² (177.15 ha, 437.76 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilpipe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Wingfield, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Wingfield electoral division: 1,045 people in 328 households; 91% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballythomas, Ballythomashill, Craan, Croghan Mountain, Curraghlawn (Co. Wicklow), Monaleehill, Toberlownagh (Co. Wicklow)
- Placenames
- Carrig 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.