Foxcover

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foxcover, from 225 m² to 151,044 m² (15.1 ha, 37.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Foxcover 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.

• 5 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a dwelling house with services, domestic garage and

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250957

• 21 May 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to demolish the existing dwelling and permission to 1) erect a dwelli

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210773

• 1 Apr 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING, REL

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190424

• 26 Nov 2018Refused

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A GRANNY FLAT EXTENSION ATTAHCED TO THE SIDE OF OUR EXISTING

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181613

• 1 Nov 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO (1) ERECT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING (2) UPGRA

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181505

• 8 May 2018Refused

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIA

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180599

• 3 Jul 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A NEW LOOSE LIVESTOCK HOUSE WITH UNROOFED SLATTED UNDERGROUN

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170855

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 Foxcover.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Foxcover.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Foxcover, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Foxcover with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Foxcover · Scairt an tSionnaigh

Area

1,094,315 m² (109.43 ha, 270.41 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnahue, and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Monaseed, the unit of the census

Census 2022

725 people lived in 226 households in the Monaseed electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Buckstown, Coolthawn, Deerpark, Millquarter, Monaseed, Monaseed Demesne

Placenames

Foxcover 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.