# Growtown Lower, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Coolstuff, barony of Shelmaliere West, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Gró Íochtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 945,094 m² (94.51 ha, 233.54 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,105 m² (2.11 ha, 5.22 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Coolstuff, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/coolstuff.md - Barony: Shelmaliere West - Electoral division: Forth, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Forth electoral division: 880 people in 289 households; 86% 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. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/53891 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241282 - Centre: latitude 52.332783, longitude -6.615292 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Growtown Lower, from 1,372 m² to 254,404 m² (25.44 ha, 62.86 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 430540: 254,404 m² (25.44 ha, 62.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/430540.md - Parcel 400244: 146,123 m² (14.61 ha, 36.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/400244.md - Parcel 387187: 117,760 m² (11.78 ha, 29.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/387187.md - Parcel 5345055: 112,545 m² (11.25 ha, 27.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5345055.md - Parcel 385305: 80,842 m² (8.08 ha, 19.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/385305.md - Parcel 387259: 77,840 m² (7.78 ha, 19.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/387259.md - Parcel 3561693: 35,601 m² (3.56 ha, 8.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3561693.md - Parcel 382765: 26,797 m² (2.68 ha, 6.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/382765.md - Parcel 401756: 21,294 m² (2.13 ha, 5.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/401756.md - Parcel 2679732: 20,915 m² (2.09 ha, 5.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2679732.md - Parcel 379510: 20,401 m² (2.04 ha, 5.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/379510.md - Parcel 4970544: 10,098 m² (1.01 ha, 2.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4970544.md - Parcel 410429: 3,412 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/410429.md - Parcel 364226: 2,564 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/364226.md - Parcel 374167: 2,450 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/374167.md - Parcel 375778: 2,312 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/375778.md - Parcel 1540627: 2,254 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1540627.md - Parcel 5345033: 1,372 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5345033.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Growtown Lower in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 1 Mar 2023, Wexford County Council 20230200: Granted (conditional). Retention, 1 home. Permission for the retention of slight alterations to elevations of dwelling and. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/124972 - 9 Feb 2023, Wexford County Council 20230123: N/a. Retention. Permission for the retention of slight alterations to elevations of dwelling and. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/124882 - 20 Dec 2021, Wexford County Council 20212016: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling and all associated site. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/122791 - 8 Jan 2018, Wexford County Council 20180012: Refused. Permission. TEN YEAR PERMISSION FOR A SOLAR FARM CONSISTING OF CIRCA 96,600 SQUARE METRES OF. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/105373 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Growtown Lower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Growtown Lower. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Growtown Lower. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Growtown Lower. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wexford/growtown-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/growtown-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/growtown-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Growtown Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Coolstuff: https://everytownland.com/wexford/coolstuff.md - Furlongstown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/furlongstown.md - Growtown Upper: https://everytownland.com/wexford/growtown-upper.md - Oldboley: https://everytownland.com/wexford/oldboley.md - Siginshaggard: https://everytownland.com/wexford/siginshaggard.md - Tomcool: https://everytownland.com/wexford/tomcool.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wexford/growtown-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/growtown-lower