Gobbinstown

112 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gobbinstown, from 59 m² to 305,063 m² (30.51 ha, 75.38 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Gobbinstown 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.

• 19 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a padel court, fencing and public lighting

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251025

• 8 Jul 2025N/a

  1) Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250844

• 12 Jun 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250716

• 28 May 2025N/a

  Permission to erect a prefabricated modular building for community use

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250628

• 25 Mar 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250325

• 24 Mar 2025N/a

  Permission to erect a modular building for community use, ancillary to existing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250322

• 7 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for works to uprate the existing Great Island - Kellis 220kV

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241230

• 30 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a community centre building incorporating

  Permission consequent · Wexford County Council, 20241194

• 10 Sept 2024N/a

  Permission for the construction of a community centre building

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241105

• 21 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of an extension and alterations to an existing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240310

• 2 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the Retention of alterations made to that approved under planning

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220117

• 17 Jan 2022N/a

  Permission for the retention of alterations made to that approved under planning

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220035

• 30 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a senory/meditation garden, greenhouse, water feature, s

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211241

• 4 Sept 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a detached domestic garage and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201023

• 20 Apr 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A LIVESTOCK UNDERPASS, EFFLUENT HOLDING TANK AND

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180517

• 28 Apr 2017Refused

  PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF USE OF LANDS TO DRY CAR STORAGE AREA OF 0.5 HECTARE AND

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170526

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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• WX030-001 Moated site
  Description

  Marked as a rectangular embanked or moated enclosure (ext. dims. c. 60m E-W; c. 40m N-S) only on 1839 ed. of the OS 6 inch map, and situated on a gentle N-facing slope. It is described locally as having a low earthen bank but no noticeable fosse. It is not visible now at ground level. (Barry 1977, 221, WX67) 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: 15 August, 2012

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of Saint Anne and Saint John, church/chapel, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1856, on a rectangular plan; single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch (east). Renovated, 1981, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), trefoil crested roll moulded clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables including cut-granite coping to gable (east) with cut-granite gabled bellcote to apex framing cast-bronze bell, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Gritdashed roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rusticated rendered quoins to corners; slate hung surface finish (west); gritdashed roughcast walls (porch) on rendered plinth with benchmark-inscribed cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Lancet window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered block-and-start surrounds framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass roundels. Pointed-arch window opening (west) with cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing iron mesh storm screens over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Lancet "Trinity Window" (east) with rendered block-and-start surrounds framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass roundels. Triangular-headed window opening (porch) with cut-granite sill, and rendered surround framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fitting. Square-headed opposing door openings ("cheeks") with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds framing timber doors. Interior including vestibule (east) with stained glass memorial window (----); round-headed door opening into nave with cut-granite block-and-start surround centred on keystone; full-height interior with balustraded choir gallery (east) below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (----), encaustic tiled central aisle between timber pews, paired Gothic-style timber stations between stained glass memorial windows (----), pair of inscribed cut-limestone panels (1981), and mosaic tiled cut-veined white marble stepped dais to sanctuary (west) reordered, 1981, with inlaid cut-veined white marble panelled altar below stained glass "West Window" (----) in mosaic tiled surround. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with gritdashed roughcast crow stepped gate screen to perimeter framing 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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 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 Gobbinstown.

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.

• Gobbinstown, New Ross5 sales

Name

Gobbinstown · Baile an Ghobáin

Area

2,630,253 m² (263.03 ha, 649.95 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyanne, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Ballyanne, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyanne electoral division: 793 people in 276 households; 84% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvegga, Ballyleigh, Ballywilliam, Boherstooka, Bolacaheer, Knockroe, Rathgaroge

Placenames

Gobbinstown 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.