Durra Big

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Durra Big, from 363 m² to 173,868 m² (17.39 ha, 42.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 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 Durra Big 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 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of an extension to the rear of existing dwelling

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250197

• 26 May 2021Refused

  Permission for the erection of a granny flat to the rear of family home and

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210809

• 26 May 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of an extension to the side of my home, also

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210811

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 Durra Big.

Recorded monuments

• WX041-028001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  References to Dirr, though not to castle, date from 1575 when it was held by the Meyler family (Jeffrey 1979, 109 110). Richard Meyler owned 120 acres and the castle in 1640 according to the Civil Survey (1654-6) (Simington 1953, 81, 98). It is situated on a S-facing slope in the S foothills of Forth Mountain. The only remains are a bawn corner tower (int. diam. 4.3m; H 4.7m) of two storeys with four gun loops on the ground floor and four corbels to support the first floor. The wall is corbelling in at the top, perhaps to form a vault. The castle and bawn were probably E of this structure, which is at the E edge of a farm complex. 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: 19 March, 2013

• WX041-028002 Bawn
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope in the S foothills of Forth Mountain. The only remains of the castle (WX041-028001-) at Durra are a corner tower (int. diam. 4.3m; H 4.7m) from the bawn. It is of two storeys with four gun loops on ground floor and four corbels to support the first floor. The wall is corbelling in at the top, perhaps to form a vault. The castle and bawn were probably E of this structure, which is at the E edge of a farm complex. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 March, 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Durra Big.

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 20 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Durra Big.

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

Name

Durra Big · An Doir Mhór

Area

561,102 m² (56.11 ha, 138.65 acres)

Civil parish

Taghmon, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere West

Electoral division

Aughwilliam, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aughwilliam electoral division: 587 people in 204 households; 89% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackmoor, Cleristown North, Coolsallagh, Durra Little, Kilmannan, Shelmaliere Commons

Placenames

Durra Big 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.