Clonmore Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyhuskard, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford; in Irish Cluain Mór Uachtarach
- Area
- 155 ha
- 383 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 7,232 m² (0.72 ha, 1.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonmore Upper, from 984 m² to 372,145 m² (37.21 ha, 91.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Clonmore Upper 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
5 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a domestic garage and games room to the rear
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251429
29 Oct 2025N/a
Permission for the erection of a domestic garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251396
15 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a single storeydwelling house and to carry out all
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240283
5 Sept 2023Refused
Permission for retention of a) garage/workshop, b) domestic stores
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231056
14 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of site boundaries, position of dwelling house and asso
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210040
1 Apr 2020Granted (unconditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF EXISTING DWELLING WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE UNDER ROOF AN
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20150074
18 Jul 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF THE FOLLOWING; A) ALTERATIONS TO
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180983
8 Dec 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161360
15 Jan 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SLATTED CATTLE SHED WITH STRAW LIE BACKS, CATTLE HANDL
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160027
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 Clonmore Upper.
Recorded monuments
- WX026-097 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a rise on a slight W-facing slope with a small stream c. 100m to the W. The faint cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 32m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) defined by a slight 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; 6 March 2020
- WX026-098 Enclosure
Description
Situated on top of a hill. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 47m ENE-WSW; c. 42m NNW-SSE) defined by a slight fosse is visible only on Google Earth (14/07/2018). There may be an entrance (Wth c. 2m) at N. Just S of the centre it is overlain by an ENE-WSW field bank, and a NNW-SSE field bank clips the perimeter at E. It was first reported by Simon Dowling. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 6 March 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clonmore Upper.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3017 (ZIP).
- 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 Clonmore Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Clonmore Upper · Cluain Mór Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,550,228 m² (155.02 ha, 383.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyhuskard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Ballyhuskard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyhuskard electoral division: 1,705 people in 586 households; 88% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybeg, Ballycourcy Beg, Ballynastraw, Clonmore Lower, Cooladine, Kilcotty Beg, Oulartleigh
- Placenames
- Clonmore Upper 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.