Cloghulatagh

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghulatagh, from 17 m² to 241,216 m² (24.12 ha, 59.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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 Cloghulatagh 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.

• 30 Apr 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions to an existin

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250502

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 Cloghulatagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloghulatagh.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Fintan's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1865–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1869-71; dedicated 1872, on a rectangular plan comprising six-bay double-height nave opening into five-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles centred on single-bay double-height apse (west) on a half-octagonal plan; single-bay two-stage tower to entrance (east) front on a square plan supporting single-bay three-stage turret on an octagonal plan. Renovated, 1923-4, with sanctuary "improved". Renovated, 1968-70, with sanctuary reordered. Undergoing "restoration", 2009. Pitched slate roof; lean-to slate roofs (side aisles), clay ridge tiles, lichen-spotted cut-granite coping to gables on roll moulded gabled "Cavetto" kneelers, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on cut-granite "Cavetto" cornice. Part repointed cut-granite banded snecked Knockarone stone walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on plinth with cut-granite flush quoins to corners; part repointed cut-granite banded snecked Knockarone stone walls (tower) on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on plinth with diagonal buttresses to corners having cut-granite "slated" coping. Pointed segmental-headed window openings (clerestorey) with cut-granite roundel tracery, and cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Lancet window openings (side aisles) with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having moulded reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass roundels. Pointed segmental-headed lancet window openings to apse (west) with cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Lancet window openings to gable to entrance (east) front with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding over on monolithic label stops framing timber boarded double doors. Trefoil-headed lancet window opening (third stage) with cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fitting having lattice glazing bars. Lancet openings (bell stage) with cut-granite "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" sill course, and cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing louvered fittings. Interior including vestibule (east); square-headed door opening into nave with replacement glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight; full-height interior open into roof with choir gallery (east) supporting Gothic-style timber panelled pipe organ, encaustic tiled central aisle (1925) between Maltese Cross-detailed timber pews, pointed-arch arcades on cut-granite pillars, exposed pointed-arch braced collared timber roof construction on cut-granite beaded "Cavetto" corbels with wind braced ceiling in carved timber frame on carved timber cornice, carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (west) reordered, 1968-70, with pointed-arch chancel arch framing Gothic-style panelled altar below stained glass memorial windows (----) in mosaic tiled surrounds (1923-4), pointed-arches to side altars framing cloaked altars below stained glass windows in mosaic tiled surrounds, paired Gothic-style timber stations to side aisles between stained glass memorial windows (1934), silver plated wall monument (ob. 1849) with Gothic-style wall monument (ob. 1896), and exposed rafters to ceiling. Set in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site approached by flight of eight cut-granite steps.

• Saint Fintan's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1925–1956 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay (two-bay deep) single-storey gable-fronted mortuary chapel, extant 1956, on a rectangular plan. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, lichen-spotted coping to gables on "Cavetto" kneelers with Cross finials to apexes, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on "Cavetto" cornice. Tuck pointed snecked walls on ashlar chamfered plinth with flush quoins to corners. Pointed-arch door opening with concrete step threshold, and block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding over on monolithic label stops framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Lancet window openings with flush sill course, and block-and-start surrounds having stepped reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Saint Fintan's Catholic Church.

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 10 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 Cloghulatagh.

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

Name

Cloghulatagh · Cloch Chodlata

Area

1,108,593 m² (110.86 ha, 273.94 acres)

Civil parish

Taghmon, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere West

Electoral division

Taghmon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Taghmon electoral division: 1,201 people in 444 households; 59% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybeg, Bricketstown, Brownscastle, Cloonerane, Mulmontry, Poulmarl, Taghmon

Placenames

Cloghulatagh 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.