# Fence, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tacumshin, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Fál. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 193,732 m² (19.37 ha, 47.87 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,104 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tacumshin, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/tacumshin.md - Barony: Forth - Electoral division: Tacumshin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 507 people lived in 204 households in the Tacumshin electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54434 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241096 - Centre: latitude 52.207242, longitude -6.428589 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fence, from 551 m² to 70,519 m² (7.05 ha, 17.43 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2688049: 70,519 m² (7.05 ha, 17.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2688049.md - Parcel 407496: 57,069 m² (5.71 ha, 14.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/407496.md - Parcel 413986: 20,271 m² (2.03 ha, 5.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/413986.md - Parcel 373004: 8,676 m² (0.87 ha, 2.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/373004.md - Parcel 431140: 4,492 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/431140.md - Parcel 413276: 4,259 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/413276.md - Parcel 374182: 3,589 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/374182.md - Parcel 411622: 3,331 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/411622.md - Parcel 422203: 3,227 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/422203.md - Parcel 409680: 3,104 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/409680.md - Parcel 368715: 2,852 m² (0.29 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/368715.md - Parcel 374181: 2,802 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/374181.md - Parcel 2641100: 2,298 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2641100.md - Parcel 408623: 2,021 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/408623.md - Parcel 2412836: 2,005 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2412836.md - Parcel 382469: 1,274 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/382469.md - Parcel 415896: 1,040 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/415896.md - Parcel 374004: 564 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/374004.md - Parcel 2412834: 551 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2412834.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Fence in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 22 May 2023, Wexford County Council 20230559: Granted (conditional). Permission, 4 homes. Permission for the proposed erection of 4 no. 2 storey 4 bedroom detached. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/125383 - 13 Nov 2019, Wexford County Council 20191511: Granted (conditional). Retention. PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING (A) PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS TOT HE APPROVED PERM. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/111424 - 20 Aug 2019, Wexford County Council 20191174: N/a. Retention. A) PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS TO THE APPROVED PERMISSION 20120002 CONSISTING OF. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/110668 - 10 Jul 2019, Wexford County Council 20190985: N/a. Retention. PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING:- (A) ALTERATIONS TO THE APPROVED PERMISSION. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/109834 - 2 Feb 2018, Wexford County Council 20180115: Refused. Retention, 3 homes. PERMISSION FOR (A) ALTERATIONS TO THE APPROVED PERMISSION 20120002 CONSISTING OF. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/105514 - 28 Mar 2017, Wexford County Council 20120002: Granted (unconditional). Extension of duration. (A) THE REFURBISHMENT OF 3 EXISTING BARNS, KNOWN AS BARN 1, BARN 2 AND BARN 3 F. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/103451 - 10 Mar 2017, Wexford County Council 20170291: Refused. Permission. PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS TO THE APPROVED PERMISSION 20120002 CONSISTING OF THE. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/103366 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fence. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WX053-006: Windmill, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX053-006----. This mill is situated on a level landscape, and has the date 1846 inscribed on the lintel of its E doorway. It was built by James Moran, a millwright who had trained in Holland, and he made and installed all the wooden parts. This was one of about five working mills in Co. Wexford by 1911, but it was roofless by the 1930’s when it was acquired by Gerald Murphy, who replaced damaged parts of the machinery with iron parts from Ballyfane windmill (WX053-080----) and had the building re-thatched. This care allowed it to continue working until 1936 and ensured it survived intact into the 1950s, by which time it was owned by Michael Myler, a nephew of Mr Murphy (Bowie 1974). As the last intact windmill in the country it was conserved as a National Monument in the 1950s (Tacumshane Windmill). (Harbison 1970, 249). This is a tapering tower (ext. diam. c. 6m) of three storeys with walls that taper with height (Wth at base c. 0.85m; Wth at top c. 0.4m). It has opposing doorways at E and W, and three floors. The joists of the first floor are set directly into the wall, but those of the second floor rest on a rebate. The cap was turned manually, and the two pairs of millstones on the first floor were under-driven. The remains of the corn-drying kiln are nearby. (O’Sullivan c. 1975). This is a National Monument in state guardianship: No. 457. See the attached view from E 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: 25 March, 2014 - WX053-007: Bullaun stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX053-007----. Marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is located at the side of the road at Faythe cross-roads in Tacumshin village. This is a rectangular block of granite (dims 0.96m x 0.76m; H 0.67m) with a single basin (diam. 0.2m; D 0.15m). There are two shallow depressions on the stone (diam. 6cm: D 1 2cm) on either side of the basin. 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: 25 March, 2014 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Mill (wind), 1845–1850, National interest, registry number 15705304, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15705304. Freestanding single-bay three-stage tapering windmill, dated 1846, on a circular plan. In use, 1901. Disused, 1908-30. Repaired, 1930. Closed, 1936. Disused, 1940. Restored, 1953-73. Chicken wire-covered conical straw thatch roof with lead-capped exposed hazel lattice stretchers to apex having exposed steel scallops, timber boarded sail house with timber sails, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed steel scallops. Limewashed roughcast coursed rubble stone battered walls. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings including inscribed rough hewn timber beam lintels ("1846") framing timber boarded doors. Square-headed window openings (upper stages) with limewashed rough hewn shallow sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing fixed-pane timber fittings. Interior including (first stage): meal floor with stone flagged floor; (second stage): stone floor with timber boarded floor on timber joists; and (third stage): dust floor with timber boarded floor on timber joists. Set in landscaped grounds. - Saint Catherine's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1795–1800, Regional interest, registry number 15705305, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15705305. Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, dated 1797, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (west) front. "Improved", 1858, producing present composition. Stabilised, 1971. Renovated, 1989, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), lichen-covered clay ridge tiles with rendered, ruled and lined buttressed gabled bellcote to apex to entrance (west) front framing cast-iron bell, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered stepped eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth with paired cement rendered battered buttresses. Lancet window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Lancet window opening to entrance (west) front with concrete sill, and concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fitting. Interior including vestibule (west); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors; full-height interior with timber panelled choir gallery (west) on paired cast-iron pillars, tessellated "quarry" tile central aisle between Maltese Cross-detailed timber pews, Gothic-style timber stations between frosted glass windows with pair of stained glass memorial windows (east), and encaustic tiled stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, 1989, with carpeted stepped "predella" supporting replacement timber altar table. Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast piers to perimeter having stepped capping supporting spear head-detailed wrought iron double gates. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Fence, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fence. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wexford/fence.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/fence.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/fence.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Fence with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyhiho: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballyhiho.md - Ballymacane: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballymacane.md - Churchtown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/churchtown-240765.md - Faythe: https://everytownland.com/wexford/faythe.md - Millknock: https://everytownland.com/wexford/millknock.md - Tacumshin: https://everytownland.com/wexford/tacumshin.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wexford/fence - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/fence