Crefoge
Crefoge is a townland in the civil parish of Templeshannon, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Chréafóg.
- Area
- 114.1 ha
- 282 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 13,696 m² (1.37 ha, 3.38 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crefoge, from 326 m² to 258,879 m² (25.89 ha, 63.97 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Crefoge 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
24 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct 1) calf house 2) an over ground slurry store & 3)
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221411
17 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house & a domestic garage all
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211319
1 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to extend the existing dwelling and close off the existing entrance,
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211043
20 Apr 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of relocation of dwelling house and domestic garage
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200445
18 Jul 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING OVER EXISTING CUBICL
Permission, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20180980
23 Mar 2016Granted (conditional)
CHANGE OF USE FROM DAIRY PREMISES TO A LOW CAPACITY PET CREMATORIUM, INVOLVING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160297
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 Crefoge.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Crefoge.
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1842–1903 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1903, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay full-height breakfront on a shallow segmental bowed plan; two-bay full-height rear (south) elevation. Hipped gabled slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered red brick Running bond central chimney stacks having stepped capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls on rendered plinth with rendered quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening in segmental-headed recess with flight of three cut-granite steps, carved timber doorcase, and rendered "bas-relief" block-and-start surround centred on keystone having splayed reveals framing timber panelled double doors having fanlight. Camber-headed window opening (half-dormer attic) with cut-granite sill, and rendered "bas-relief" block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" block-and-start surrounds framing eight-over-eight (ground floor) or four-over-eight (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase on a dog leg plan with timber balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in volute, carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled door, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on plasterwork ceiling rose; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered red brick Running bond piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron double gates.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Crefoge, about 1 in 10 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2952 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Crefoge with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Crefoge · An Chréafóg
- Area
- 1,141,182 m² (114.12 ha, 281.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeshannon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Enniscorthy Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 10,897 people lived in 4,009 households in the Enniscorthy Rural electoral division. 56% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughnagalley, Ballycourcy More, Brownswood, Drumgold, Salville or Motabeg
- Placenames
- Crefoge 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.