Chapel

67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Chapel, from 195 m² to 263,336 m² (26.33 ha, 65.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Chapel 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 Apr 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for 1. the demolition of an existing storey and a half agricultural

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250459

• 31 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of a serviced dwelling house

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231313

• 5 Apr 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the demolition of a ground floor section to the side elevation of

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230358

• 20 Dec 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for alterations and extentions to the existing detached fully

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221694

• 31 Aug 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for change of location of surface water attenuation pond

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221161

• 18 Aug 2022N/a

  Permission for the change of location of surface water attenuation pond previous

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221104

• 3 May 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of an agricultural storage shed and all other as

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220571

• 22 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a vehicular entrance and hardcore roadway with associated works

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220534

• 18 Sept 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of tunnels for the purpose of growing soft fruits

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201082

• 17 Aug 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced single storey residential

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20200942

• 18 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and associate

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200331

• 24 Jul 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARA

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191055

• 15 Aug 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF TUNNELS FOR THE GROWING OF SOFT FRUIT WITH ASSOCIATED

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171084

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 Chapel.

Recorded monuments

• WX031-001001 Church
  Description

  Situated just off the S side of a low hill. The Parish church of Chapel parish is within a neglected circular graveyard (diam. c. 55-60m) defined by a stone-faced earthen bank and hedge. This is an undifferentiated church oriented ESE WNW defined by the wide spread (Wth c. 3m; H 0.8-1.4m) of collapsed walls (int. L 12.8m; int. Wth 5.8m). There is an entrance (Wth 1.7m) towards the W end of the S wall. St Francis' Well (WX031-002----) is located c. 470m to the SSW. 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: 27 August, 2012

• WX031-001002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated just off the S side of a low hill. The Parish church of Chapel parish (WX031-001001-) is within a negleced circular graveyard (diam. c. 55-60m) defined by a stone-faced earthen bank and hedge. St Francis' Well (WX031-002----) is located c. 470m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 August, 2012

• WX031-002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering on both as ‘St Francis’s Well. It is located towards the bottom of a S-facing slope and on the E side of a NNE-SSW road. This is the source of a small NW-SE stream that runs off to the SE and joins the W-E Aughnaglaur River c. 600m to the SSE. The well is a circular feature (int. diam. 1.45m) defined by a masonry wall (T 0.45m; ext. H 0.7m on the roadside to 1.75m in the stream). There is a gate at the W side and steps leading down to the water, but there is no evidence of veneration. The church of Chapel parish (WX031-001001-) is c. 470m to the NNE, and moated site (WX031-003----) is c. 60m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 August, 2012

• WX031-003 Moated site
  Description

  Visible as a rectangular feature with bushes on the perimeter on vertical aerial photographs (GSIAP S 377/376) and situated in the valley of a small NW-SE stream that joins the W-E Aughnaglaur River c. 500m to the SSE. It was visible in 1987 as a rectangular grass-covered area (dims. 30m NW-SE; 25m NE-SW) defined by lusher vegetation (Wth 4-6m) on the moats, with a leat at W corner leading to the stream c. 30m to the SW, and an entrance causeway (Wth 5m) towards the E end of the NE moat. 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: 27 August, 2012

• WX031-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a gentle SE-facing slope. This is an oval scrub-covered area (dims. 52m N-S: 41m E-W) defined by the remains of an earthen bank, most visible SE SW and NW-NE (Wth 6-7m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.5-2m) but much reduced (Wth 5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) SW-NW and reduced to a scarp (H at E: 0.3m) NE-SE. There is an external fosse visible NW-NE (Wth of top 7m; ext. D 1.8m) where it is bounded by a road bank. There is no visible entrance. 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: 28 August, 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Chapel.

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

Name

Chapel · An Séipéal

Area

3,037,687 m² (303.77 ha, 750.63 acres)

Civil parish

Chapel, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Clonroche, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonroche electoral division: 1,333 people in 463 households; 73% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonroche, Coolroe, Coonoge, Kellystown, Raheen, Raheenduff, Tomfarney

Placenames

Chapel 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.