Garrylough Lower
Townland in the civil parish of St .nicholas, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Garraí Fliuch Íochtarach
- Area
- 160 ha
- 395 acres
- Land parcels
- 63
- registered freehold, median 3,382 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrylough Lower, from 20 m² to 309,301 m² (30.93 ha, 76.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Garrylough 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an extension to rear of existing dwelling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250140
3 May 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to demolish existing extension, construct new rear extension
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240496
13 Feb 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230129
26 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of an extension at the rear of house
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221429
12 Oct 2022Refused
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic garage and
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221344
16 Sept 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for 1) Construction of a parent flat and installation of a new foul
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221241
29 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced new dwelling house and a domesti
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211856
4 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house & a domestic garage all with
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210884
4 Feb 2021Refused
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house & a domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210146
12 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and a domestic ga
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201175
17 Aug 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for the construction of a domestic shed
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200949
6 Aug 2020N/a
Permission for retention for the construction of a domestic shed
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200895
28 May 2020Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and a domestic ga
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200552
15 Mar 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190335
16 Jul 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE RETENTION OF A CHANGE OF SITE LAYOUT AND SITE BOUNDARIESTO TH
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180975
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Garrylough Lower.
Recorded monuments
- WX033-032 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 3m) is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX033-032_1; _2), taken in 2004. It is also visible on a Bing series of aerial photographs (2012). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 September, 2012
Architectural heritage
- Garrylough House, farm house, 1799–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Vacant, 2007. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls. Venetian door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and flush surround framing timber panelled door having fanlight with one-over-one timber sash sidelights. Square-headed window openings originally in bipartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, and flush surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Paired square-headed window openings (gable ends) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.
- Garrylough Mill, mill (water), 1850–1855 · Regional interest
Description
Attached three-bay three-storey mill with half-attic, dated 1851, on a rectangular plan. Closed, 1964. "Restored", 1975-7. Now disused. Hipped gabled slate roof on collared timber construction with lichen-covered terracotta ridge tiles, and cast-aluminium rainwater goods on slightly overhanging slate flagged eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with cut- or hammered granite flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings in camber-headed recesses (upper floors) with slate sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement timber casement windows having square glazing bars. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with slate sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds supporting rough hewn granite lintels framing replacement timber casement windows having square glazing bars. Interior including (ground floor): limewashed drying floor with timber boarded ceiling on timber joists on timber beams; (first floor): limewashed milling floor with timber boarded ceiling on timber joists on timber beams; (second floor): limewashed "dust floor" or "hopper floor" with timber boarded ceiling on timber joists on timber beams; and (top floor): limewashed grain floor. Set in unkempt grounds on a corner site.
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 Garrylough 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Garrylough Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Garrylough Lower · An Garraí Fliuch Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,600,241 m² (160.02 ha, 395.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- St .nicholas, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Kilmallock, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmallock electoral division: 1,550 people in 511 households; 83% of households own their home; 55% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyfarnoge, Ballyheige, Ballyhow Middle, Ballymore, Garryhubbock, Garrylough Upper, Kilcorral, Killelan
- Placenames
- Garrylough 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.