Fethard
Townland in the civil parish of Fethard, barony of Shelburne, Co. Wexford; in Irish Fiodh Ard
Parcel 367604
- Area
- 119 m²
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it, 145 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Fethard
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 136.2 ha
- 336 acres
- Land parcels
- 166
- registered freehold, median 424 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 30
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
166 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fethard, from 38 m² to 190,165 m² (19.02 ha, 46.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 54 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Fethard 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Jun 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for changes to site boundaries and site layout from that previously
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260759
8 May 2026N/a
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260579
31 Mar 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwellinghouse, garage and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260383
18 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for new extensions consisting of a single storey, 1 no. safe base
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251694
25 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of works carried out being the conversion of the rear
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250921
23 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to demolish an existing derelict cottage and for the erection of a
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250908
26 Feb 2025Refused
Permission for the permanent retention of works carried out, being the
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250237
5 Feb 2025N/a
Permission for retention of works carried out being the conversion of the rear
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250131
18 Dec 2024N/a
Permission for the development of a community garden divided into allotments
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241583
21 Nov 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of the sun room, boiler room and kitchen livingroom
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241441
19 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwellinhouse and all associated
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20241135
18 May 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the installation of a solar powered lighting system
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230537
21 Dec 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of a stone filled access road and hard standing area
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221704
15 Sept 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the installation of an external bollard lighting system around th
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221233
29 Jul 2022N/a
Permission for the installation of an external bollard lighting system
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221032
12 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of fencing along the boundary wall to the rear and (
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220944
23 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an extension to the side of our home and all asso
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210979
2 Jul 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT, THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF CONSTRUCTING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190934
2 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190430
19 Mar 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190343
13 Nov 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE REAR OF DWELLING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181552
29 Aug 2018Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC WORKSHOP TO THE REAR OF MY HOME AT RAL
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181172
11 Jun 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE INSTALLATION OF OUTDOOR GYM EQUIPMENT
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180781
21 May 2018N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMMUNITY PLAYGROUND C/W BOUNDARY WALLS/ RAI
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180671
20 Dec 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING COAST GUARD STATION (WHI
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171691
The 25 most recent of 30 applications.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Bannow Bay SAC 000697
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bannow Bay 000697
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fethard.
Architectural heritage
- Boathouse, 1905–1911 · Regional interest
Description
Detached single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey gable-fronted lifesaving apparatus house, extant 1911, on a rectangular plan. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and no rainwater goods on timber boarded box eaves. Red brick Flemish bond walls. Square-headed opening with timber beam lintel framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window openings to side elevations with cut-granite sills, and lintels framing concrete block infill. Set back from line of street with piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting flat iron double gates.
- Monument, 1914–1925 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding monument, erected 1915, on a square plan. Street fronted on concrete brick cobbled footpath.
- Water pump, 1842–1902 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cast-iron "cow tail" waterpump, extant 1902. Now disused. Street fronted on stone cobbled base.
- Fethard Bridge, bridge, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch road bridge over river, extant 1840. Sited spanning Scar River at estuary with unkempt banks to river.
- Saint Mogue's Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over part raised basement Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland glebe house, built 1830, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1911. Sold, ----. Set in landscaped grounds.
- Shelbourne Lodge, house, 1800–1814 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1814, on a U-shaped plan with pair of single-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey lower returns (north). Renovated, ----. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan with hipped slate roofs (north), clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta tapered pots with rendered chimney stacks (north) having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on decorative timber eaves boards on slightly overhanging rendered eaves. Replacement rendered walls. Hipped elliptical- or segmental-headed central door opening into farmhouse. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (north) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having creeper- or ivy-covered capping supporting looped wrought iron double gates.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Fethard.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Fethard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Fethard · Fiodh Ard
- Area
- 1,361,697 m² (136.17 ha, 336.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Fethard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelburne
- Electoral division
- Fethard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Fethard electoral division: 972 people in 387 households; 75% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 36% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Fethard 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.