Ferns Lower

111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ferns Lower, from 46 m² to 152,534 m² (15.25 ha, 37.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Ferns Lower 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.

• 6 Jul 2026N/a

  Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260874

• 16 Jun 2026N/a

  Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260777

• 26 Mar 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect an extension to the front and rear of existing dwelling

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250339

• 11 Mar 2025N/a

  Permission to erect an extension to the rear of existing dwelling house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250279

• 11 Jun 2024N/a

  Permission to erect an extension to the rear of existing dwelling house and

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240663

• 21 Nov 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission to extend the roof of existing milling plant

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231393

• 31 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of works to date and permission to complete house

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231312

• 24 Oct 2023Refused

  PLANNING PERMISSION FOR 18 NO. 2 STOREY 3 BED SEMI-DETACHED DWELLINGS, 12 NO.

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20181695

• 6 May 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention, and permission to complete the erection of a domestic

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220601

• 13 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention and completion of the installation of a solar photo vol

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220486

• 30 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling house and domestic garage with connection to exis

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211381

• 12 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling house with connection to existing watermains and

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211117

• 28 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling house and domestic garage with connection to exis

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211016

• 4 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling house and domestic garage with connection to exis

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210880

• 30 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect an extension to the side of the existing dwelling.

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210663

• 8 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect an extension to the side of my existing dwelling house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210324

• 20 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling house and domestic garage with connection to exis

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210064

• 16 Sept 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of the position of dwelling house and domestic garage i

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20201064

• 4 Aug 2020N/a

  Permission for retention of the position of dwelling house and domestic garage i

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200881

• 10 Jul 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to provide a bored well water supply instead of mains water supply to

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200765

• 5 Nov 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191490

• 23 Sept 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191294

• 1 Aug 2019Refused

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE.

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191098

• 24 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING STORE WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORK

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190892

• 11 Mar 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190298

The 25 most recent of 33 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

• WX015-004 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated at the bottom of a gentle SE-facing slope with the NE-SW River Bann c. 150m to the SE. The cropmark of large oval enclosure (dims. c. 100m NE–SW; c. 60m NW–SE) defined by a slight fosse or dtich feature is visible on the oblique aerial photograph (CUCAP, BGF 30). It may be the remains of a small enclosed wood. It is also visible with two fosses on images taken with a drone-mounted camera by Dinny Kinsella and Barry Lacy in near drought conditions during July 2018. 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: 30 April, 2012 Amended: 10 February 2022

• WX015-067 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a slight rise on the flood-plain of the NE-SW River Bann with the stream c. 50m to the SE. Archaeological monitoring (98E0132) of a NW-SE sewer-pipe trench recorded two ditches or fosses in the section placed c. 40m apart. The NW ditch (Wth of top 1.7m; D 0.8m) was filled with a uniform layer of silty brown clay with some gravel, but the SE fosse (Wth of top 5m; D 1.8m) contained charcoal lenses. A charcoal sample from the old ground surface produced a C14 date of 1220 +- 50 BP (c. 830 AD). (Ryan and Henry 2000, 301; Ryan 2000, 11) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 May, 2012

• WX015-068 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  Located at the bottom of a SE-facing slope in the flood-plain of the NE-SW River Bann with the stream c. 500m to the SE. Archaeological monitoring in advance of building new sewage works identified a ditch-barrow that was completely excavated (99E0450). It was a subcircular area (int. dim3.6-4.25m) with no internal features defined by a complete ditch (Wth 0.28m at NE to 0.9m at S; D 0.2-0.4m) with some stake-holes. Five cremated deposits representing seven individuals were in the ditch, underlain in some cases by burnt timbers, some of which had nails. Three of the deposits had grave goods, and up to fifty glass beads, a stone pendant, a scrap of bronze and a sherd of coarse pottery were recovered. C14 dates of 2090 +- 50 BP and 2190 +- 50 BP have been obtained. The pit (WX015-069----) is c. 20m to the S. (Ryan 2000b; 2012; Ryan and Henry 2000) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 May, 2012 Amended: 21 October 2020

• WX015-069 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Located at the bottom of a SE-facing slope in the flood-plain of the NE-SW River Bann with the stream c. 500m to the SE. Archaeological monitoring (98E0132) in advance of building new sewage works identified a pit that was completely excavated under the same licence. The pit (diam. 3.55m; D 0.9m) was cut or re-cut and used for firing on four separate occasions. There were intervals of silting between each episode before the pit was sealed with a layer of stones. No artefacts were recovered, but a sample of oak yielded a C14 date of 3215 +- 45 BP (1310-1220 BC). The ditch-barrow (WX015-068----) is c. 20m to the N. (Ryan 2000; Ryan and Henry 2000, 301-02) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 May, 2012

• WX015-080 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Located on a very gentle E-facing slope. The cropmark of a large enclosure (diam. c. 90m E-W) defined by a wide fosse feature (Wth c.3m) was recorded by a drone-mounted camera in July 2018. The ditch describes a curve S-W and is visible as a low bank feature in the pasture field to the E on other aerial images (digitalmap). See the attached view looking SW courtesy of Dinny Kinsella and Barry Lacey. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 August, 2018

Architectural heritage

• Killoggy Castle, farm house, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over part raised basement farmhouse, dated 1811, on a quadrangular plan with five-bay two-storey side elevations; three-bay two-storey rear (west) elevation. Occupied, 1911. Refenestrated, ----. Roof not visible behind parapet with concealed rainwater goods. Lime rendered or roughcast coursed rubble stone battered walls with lime rendered or roughcast crow stepped parapets having slate covered coping; fine roughcast surface finish to rear (west) elevation with fine roughcast crow stepped parapets having slate covered coping. Tudor-headed central door opening approached by flight of five cut-granite steps with concealed red brick block-and-start surround framing replacement glazed timber double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (basement) with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber casement windows behind wrought iron bars. Tudor-headed window openings originally in bipartite arrangement (remainder) with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Blind Tudor-headed window openings to side elevations with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing lime rendered or roughcast infill. Tudor-headed central carriageway to rear (west) elevation with concealed red brick block-and-start framing timber boarded double doors having "fanlight" overpanel. Tudor-headed blind window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing fine roughcast infill. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase with turned timber "spindle" balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in volute, and carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing 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 with rear (west) elevation fronting on to road.

• Railway View, farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak abutting three-bay single-storey block with half-dormer attic. "Improved", pre-1904, producing present composition. Repaired, 1999. Now disused. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped and pitched oat thatch roof (south) with degraded stretchers to ridge having exposed steel scallops, red brick Running bond dwarf chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and remains of exposed bamboo stretchers to eaves having exposed steel scallops; pitched fibre-cement slate roof (north) with clay or terracotta ridge tiles, lichen-spotted rendered coping to gables, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast battered walls. Square-headed door opening with rendered "bas-relief" surround framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings (south) with concrete or rendered sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings (north) centred on round- or segmental-headed window opening (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing timber casement windows. Set in own grounds perpendicular to road with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping.

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 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 Ferns Lower.

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

Name

Ferns Lower · Fearna Íochtarach

Area

945,451 m² (94.55 ha, 233.63 acres)

Civil parish

Ferns, and its townlands

Barony

Scarawalsh

Electoral division

Ferns, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ferns electoral division: 1,598 people in 608 households; 58% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castleland, Clone, Effernoge, Ferns, Ferns Demesne, Ferns Upper, Milltown

Placenames

Ferns Lower 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.