Garrylough Upper
Townland in the civil parish of St .nicholas, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Garraí Fliuch Uachtarach
- Area
- 51 ha
- 126 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 6,860 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrylough Upper, from 177 m² to 160,444 m² (16.04 ha, 39.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Upper 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
23 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to upgrade existing on-site wastewater treatment system, all with
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251367
13 Feb 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230129
12 Oct 2022Refused
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic garage and
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221344
25 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed extension & alterations to existing dwelling house,
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211003
4 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house & a domestic garage all with
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210884
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
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
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 Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Garrylough Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garrylough Upper.
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 Upper.
- 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 Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Garrylough Upper · An Garraí Fliuch Uachtarach
- Area
- 510,030 m² (51 ha, 126.03 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
- Bishopland, Garryhubbock, Garrylough Lower, Killelan
- Placenames
- Garrylough Upper 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.