Dunishal

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunishal, from 63 m² to 211,917 m² (21.19 ha, 52.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Dunishal 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.

• 18 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)

  1)PERMISSION FOR RETENTION FOR CHANGE OF POSITION OF DWELLINGHOUSE AND WELL

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190530

• 18 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO REMOVE EXISTING STABLES FROM SITE AND 2) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190531

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 Dunishal.

Recorded monuments

• WX005-010 Moated site
  Description

  Situated in a S-N valley, with the stream, which is also the boundary with Kiltillahan townland, running through the E moat. Rectangular, slightly dished, grass-covered area with slightly raised corners (dims 54m NW-SE; 52m NE-SW) defined by flat-bottomed wet moats (Wth 8-11m; D 1.3-2m) with bushes on the edges on all four sides. There is no visible entrance, and the counterscarp bank at E may be modern. 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: 29 February 2012

Architectural heritage

• Dunishal House, farm house, 1700–1839 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay two-storey on a symmetrical plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1935. Resold, 1962. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on roughcast eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and cut-granite block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed flanking window openings in tripartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows having four-over-four sidelights. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings 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 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 Dunishal.

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

Name

Dunishal · An Dún Íseal

Area

1,803,353 m² (180.34 ha, 445.62 acres)

Civil parish

Carnew, and its townlands

Barony

Scarawalsh

Electoral division

Ballybeg, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballybeg electoral division: 630 people in 198 households; 87% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynancoran, Ballytarsna, Kiltillahan, Tombreen (Co. Wicklow), Umrygar (Co. Wicklow)

Placenames

Dunishal 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.