Drumgold

212 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumgold, from 0 m² to 690,908 m² (69.09 ha, 170.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 50 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 Drumgold 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.

• 16 Mar 2026Refused

  Permission to construct a 97-unit housing scheme which will consist of the

  Permission, 97 homes · Wexford County Council, 20260326

• 3 Mar 2026N/a

  Permisson to construct an 88-unit housing scheme which will consist of the

  Permission, 88 homes · Wexford County Council, 20260262

• 19 Dec 2025N/a

  Permission for a residential development. The proposed

  Permission, 40 homes · Wexford County Council, 20251711

• 23 Oct 2025Refused

  Permission for development which will consist of LED advertisement

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251361

• 1 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a fully serviced single storey dwelling house and

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250804

• 5 Jun 2025N/a

  Permission to construct an 89 unit housing scheme which will consist of the fol

  Permission, 87 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250672

• 29 Apr 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of works to date in the construction of boundary and

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250492

• 12 Aug 2024N/a

  Permission to construct a fully serviced single storey dwelling house and associ

  Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240960

• 11 Jun 2024Refused

  Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240665

• 2 Feb 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of existing domestic garage/store and all associated si

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240096

• 20 Feb 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development which will consist of an extension to the convenience

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230154

• 18 Jan 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of extension & alterations to existing dwelling

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230033

• 13 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house with domestic

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220485

• 16 Mar 2022N/a

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220344

• 27 May 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a fully serviced two-storey dwelling house and detached

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210824

• 11 May 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a single storey extension to the side of dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210725

• 22 Mar 2021Granted (unconditional)

  FOR DEVELOPMENT AT THIS SITE AT DAYBREAK, ENNISCORTHY SERVICE STATION, CHAPEL LA

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20160319

• 9 Jul 2020Refused

  Permission for the lateral extension and continuation of working of an existing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200754

• 1 Nov 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF SUNROOM TO EXISTING DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AN

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20161213

• 7 Sept 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF TWO (2NO) DWELLING HOUSES, DOMESTIC GARAGE/ STORES AN

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20160993

• 18 Aug 2016N/a

  ERECTION OF TWO (2 NO.) DWELLING HOUSES, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORES AND ASSOCIATED S

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160924

• 8 Jul 2016Granted (conditional)

  ESTABLISHMENT OF A WASTE FACILITY FOR THE DEPOSITION OF SURPLUS NATURAL MATERIAL

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160781

• 11 May 2016Granted (conditional)

  1.PERMISSION FOR THE INDEFINITE CONTINUATION OF USE OF THE EXISTING 1.61 HECTARE

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160490

• 29 Apr 2016N/a

  1. PERMISSION FOR THE INDEFINITE CONTINUATION OF USE OF THE EXISTING 1.61 HECTAR

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160444

• 25 Feb 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY BAY WINDOW TO FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160177

The 25 most recent of 26 applications.

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 Drumgold.

Recorded monuments

• WX020-137 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Situated in woodland on a slight SW-facing slope down to a SE-NW section of a stream known as Drumgold Stream. Monitoring of topsoil removal (E004646) during the construction phase of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy motorway in September 2016 identified archaeological deposits which were subsequently excavated (E004788) in interrupted sessions over three months. The earliest phase is represented by four pieces of rhyolite from two large and two smaller blades of Mesolithic style from a shallow hollow (dims 2.9m c 2.65m; D 0.35m) which might be natural. A second phase is indicated by eight pits (dims 0.98m x 0.65m; D 0.12m to 1.84m x 1.28m; D 0.56m), and a sample of hazel from the base of one of the pits returned a C14 date of 1742-1546 cal. BC. However, the smallest pit (dims 0.93m x 0.72m; D 0.1m), which was isolated from the others, produced charcoal which yielded a C14 date of 1045-1250 cal. AD. After a period of inundation with silts and hillwash accumulating boundary ditches of the early medieval period were constructed. One (Wth 1.6m; D 0.54-0.8m; L 23m plus) followed the slope down to the SW, parallel with and c. 5m NW of a mapped field bank. Its base was re-cut at one point, and a stone drain was inserted into its S end. At SW it debouched into a curving NW-SE drain (Wth 1.35m; D 0.48m) on the line of a mapped boundary. The fills of these ditches were largely the result of natural silting. A sample of hazel charcoal from the earliest cut of the NW-SE drain produced a C14 date of 614-763 cal. AD. An L-shaped ditch (Wth 0.95m; D 0.18m; L 8.2m) almost connects the two ditches in the angle at their junction but connects only with the NW-SE one. The fills of this ditch were largely the result of siltation but contained what might be cherry and cereal grains as well as oak, hazel and willow. A C14 date of 778-994 cal. AD was returned. Contemporary with the ditches was a group of three cereal-drying kilns. Two were small oval or sub-rectangular pits (dims 1.1m x 0.88-1m; D 0.16-0.2m) but the third (dims 2.86m x 1.08m D 0.34m) was tadpole-shaped with its flue extending off to the SW where it was cut by the NW-SE boundary drain. The kilns had oxidised bases and a sample of hazel charcoal from the base of the largest produced a C14 date of 668-864 cal. AD. The two smaller kilns produced dates of 644-765 cal. AD and 776-981 cal. AD, showing that all three are closely contemporary with each other and the drains. (Whitty and Kavanagh 2018) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 November 2020

• WX020-138 Burnt mound
  Description

  A survey of the proposed M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy motorway in 2010 (Kieran and Hayden 2010) noted a burnt mound in the bank of a stream (L 3.4m; T 0.3-0.5m), and it came to light again during the monitoring of topsoil removal and related works in 2016. It is preserved in situ within the motorway property at the boundary of a run-off pond. (Whitty and Kavanagh 20118, 2-3) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date if upload: 3 November 2020

• WX026-006 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Marked as small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the S edge of a plateau, at the crest of a S-facing slope with a small NE-SW stream c. 300-400m distant to the E and S. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 12 July 2012

• WX026-079 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Drumgold 2 (Hardy et al. 2010, 88-9). It is situated on a plateau extending SE of Vinegar Hill, c. 1.7km to the WNW. It was completely excavated (E4169) by D. Gallagher when a straight-sided circular trough (diam. 2.26-2.37m; D 0.3-0.43m) with five stake-holes in the base was recorded. This was surrounded by three small pits (dims 0.3-0.7m; D 0.1-0.14m), with a larger pit (dims 3.9m; x 2.4m; D 0.4m) mostly filled with burnt mound material, just to the SE. Apart from a small spread (dims 1.85m x 0.9m) that initially identified the site there was no burnt mound. However, 6.4m to the NW two curvilinear channel s (Wth 0.65m; D 0.56m: Wth 0.67m; D 0.31m) fed into a pit (dims 3.05m x 1.5m; D 073m), largely filled with silts, that may have brought water to the trough. A sample from a secondary fill of the trough produced a C14 date of Cal. BC 2276-2036, and a sample from the upper fill of the large pit produced a C14 date of Cal. BC 1208-1009. This suggests two discrete phases at the site while two sherds of Neolithic carinated bowls recovered from the topsoil indicate early settlement in the vicinity. The enclosure (WX026-080001-) and hut-sites (WX026-080002-; WX026-080003-) are c. 160m to the SW. (Hardy and McNamara 2012; Gallagher 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 November, 2013

• WX026-080001 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing (E004110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Drumgold 1 (Hardy et al. 2010, 90). This site is situated on a fairly level landscape. It was excavated (E4200) by D. Gallagher who uncovered two hut-sites, one of which could be within a rectangular enclosure defined by an E-W palisade trench (Wth 0.5m; D 0.4m; excavated L 5m), accompanied by an inner trench (Wth 0.16m; D 0.16m; excavated L 2.86m) at N, and a N-S palisade trench (Wth 0.4m; D 0.26m; excavated L 6.2m) at E with an entrance gap (Wth 0.7m). The dimensions of the enclosure cannot be ascertained as most of it is under a N-S section of an existing road on the W side. About 1m outside the entrance two parallel lines of post-holes (L 2.2m), placed 1.5m apart, lead towards it. Just W of the N-S palisade is a circular hut-site (int. diam. 7.5m NW-SE) defined by a slot-trench (Wth 0.57-0.87m; D 0.22-0.4m) with an inturned entrance (Wth 1m) marked by post-holes at SE. There are a number of internal post-holes and a central hearth (dims 1.2m x 1.1m; D 0.15m). The second hut-site (Structure 2) is 7m to the NW and separated from Structure 1 by the E-W palisade trenches. This structure (int. diam. c. 6.25m NW-SE) is defined by a slot-trench (Wth 0.14-0.47m; D 0.06-0.27m) with post-holes on its line. It has an entrance (Wth c. 1m) at E, marked by two post-holes. There are two large pits (dims 1.01m x 0.78m; D 0.33m: 1.8m x 0.5m plus; D 1m) in the interior. A large quantity of flint and prehistoric pottery was recovered. The fulacht fia (WX026-079----) is c. 160m to the NE. (Hardy and Rajic 2012; Gallagher 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 November, 2013

• WX026-080002 Hut site
  Description

  Excavated (E4200) by D. Gallagher as part of Drumgold 1 in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme. Just W of the N-S palisade of the possible rectangular enclosure (WX026-080001-) and within the enclosure is a circular hut-site (int. diam. 7.5m NW-SE) defined by a slot-trench (Wth 0.57-0.87m; D 0.22-0.4m), with an inturned entrance (Wth 1m) marked by post-holes at SE. There are a number of internal post-holes and a central hearth (dims 1.2m x 1.1m; D 0.15m). A second hut-site (WX026-080003-) is 7m to the NW and separated from this hut-site by the E-W palisade trenches of the N side of the enclosure. A large quantity of flint and prehistoric pottery was recovered from the site. (Hardy and Rajic 2012, 5-10, fig. 8; Gallagher 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 November, 2013

• WX026-080003 Hut site
  Description

  Excavated (E4200) by D. Gallagher as part of Drumgold 1 in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme. There is a hut-site (Structure 2) 7m NW of the hut-site (WX026-080002-) and separated from it by the E-W palisade trenches of the rectangular enclosure (WX026-080001-), which means this hut-site may be outside enclosure. This structure (int. diam. c. 6.25m NW-SE) is defined by a slot-trench (Wth 0.14-0.47m; D 0.06-0.27m) with post-holes on its line. It has an entrance (Wth c. 1m) at E, marked by two post-holes. There are two large pits (dims 1.01m x 0.78m; D 0.33m: 1.8m x 0.5m plus; D 1m) in the interior. A large quantity of flint and prehistoric pottery was recovered from the site. (Hardy and Rajic 2012, 13-6, fig. 7; Gallagher 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 November, 2013

• WX026-081 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Drumgold 3 (Hardy et al. 2010, 91-3). It is situated on a gentle SW-facing slope with a SE-NW stream c. 160m to the SW. It was excavated (E4198) by D. Gallagher who uncovered a complex of pits and post-holes in a concentrated area (dims 25m NW-SE; 25m NE-SW). Two of the pits were cremation burials (dims 0.59m x 0.58m; D 0.09m: 0.45m x 0.43m; D 0.05m), but most pits were larger (dims c. 0.5m x. 0.5m; D 0.24m to 2.85m x 1.5m; D 0.64m) and contained a lot of prehistoric lithics and ceramics. Three conjoined pits may have formed a kiln, but the post-holes produced no discernible pattern. A geophysical survey suggests that other features are in the vicinity and it may be within a large enclosure (diam. c. 100m). The ring-ditch (WX026-082----) is c. 85m to the SE. (Hardy and Taylor 2012; Gallagher 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 November, 2013

• WX026-082 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Drumgold 4 and 5 (Hardy et al. 2010, 93-4). It is situated on a SW-facing slope with a SE-NW stream c. 140m to the SW. It was completely excavated (E4180) by D. Gallagher when a circular ditch-barrow (int. diam. 8m; ext. diam. 13.5-15m) defined by a continuous fosse (Wth 1.7-2.5m; D 1-1.3m) was recorded. A central straight-sided and flat-bottomed pit (dims 3.2m x 2.28m; D 1.24m) had a fire-reddened base covered by a layer of stones, on which an intact and inverted bowl Food Vessel lay over an inverted and crushed pot and a plano-convex knife. The pit contained 15 clay layers and 7 with stones. Three cremation burials were recovered from the pit fill, including one with an inverted bowl Food Vessel. A hearth (dims 1.12m 1.01m; T 0.15m) was c. 12m SE of the barrow beside an oval pit (dims 2.37m x 1.28m; D 0.3m), and another hearth (diam. 0.92m; T 0.14m) 18m E of the barrow was surrounded by 6 pits (dims 0.46 x 0.56m; D 0.19m to 1.7m x 1.02m; D 0.49m), two of which produced prehistoric pottery. Post and stake-holes in the vicinity are interpreted as a possible wind-break. The pits and post-holes (WX026-081----) are c. 85m to the NW. (Hardy et al. 2012; Gallagher 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 29 November, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Drumgold House, farm house, 1700–1742 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1742, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey off-central return (east). Damaged, 1798. Leased, 1853. Occupied, 1911. Renovated, 1990. Undergoing "restoration", 2007. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on gablets to window openings to dormer attic with ridge tiles terminating in rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below concrete capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on rendered red brick header bond stepped eaves. Creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast battered walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed off-central door opening with cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and creeper- or ivy-covered surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Interior undergoing "restoration", 2007, including (ground floor): off-central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door opening framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds.

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; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2951 (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.

No address of the register names Drumgold with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Drumgold · Droim Guail

Area

2,815,497 m² (281.55 ha, 695.72 acres)

Civil parish

Templeshannon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen South

Electoral division

Enniscorthy Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Enniscorthy Rural electoral division: 10,897 people in 4,009 households; 56% of households own 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, Clonhasten, Cooladine, Crefoge, Killagoley, Salville or Motabeg, Templeshannon, Tomnafunshoge

Placenames

Drumgold 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.