# Growtown Upper, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Coolstuff, barony of Shelmaliere West, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Gró Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,357,512 m² (135.75 ha, 335.45 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,028 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 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): 880 people lived in 289 households in the Forth electoral division. 86% of households owned 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/53892 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241283 - Centre: latitude 52.334144, longitude -6.602104 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Growtown Upper, from 259 m² to 291,952 m² (29.2 ha, 72.14 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 424711: 291,952 m² (29.2 ha, 72.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/424711.md - Parcel 391991: 188,324 m² (18.83 ha, 46.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/391991.md - Parcel 429195: 186,467 m² (18.65 ha, 46.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/429195.md - Parcel 389280: 145,662 m² (14.57 ha, 35.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/389280.md - Parcel 2593489: 126,641 m² (12.66 ha, 31.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2593489.md - Parcel 5385586: 113,424 m² (11.34 ha, 28.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5385586.md - Parcel 401937: 106,963 m² (10.7 ha, 26.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/401937.md - Parcel 408500: 90,135 m² (9.01 ha, 22.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/408500.md - Parcel 422836: 79,205 m² (7.92 ha, 19.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/422836.md - Parcel 5344044: 66,310 m² (6.63 ha, 16.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5344044.md - Parcel 2693749: 33,400 m² (3.34 ha, 8.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2693749.md - Parcel 5292230: 4,337 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5292230.md - Parcel 369362: 4,085 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/369362.md - Parcel 414227: 3,972 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/414227.md - Parcel 362379: 3,797 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/362379.md - Parcel 376300: 3,649 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/376300.md - Parcel 400839: 3,012 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/400839.md - Parcel 362663: 2,763 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/362663.md - Parcel 415914: 2,398 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/415914.md - Parcel 364442: 2,325 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/364442.md - Parcel 2409986: 2,279 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2409986.md - Parcel 428988: 2,046 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/428988.md - Parcel 405591: 1,188 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/405591.md - Parcel 405793: 1,183 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/405793.md - Parcel 3027380: 593 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3027380.md - Parcel 408129: 259 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/408129.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Growtown Upper 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) 5 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 - 16 Jul 2018, Wexford County Council 20180966: Granted (conditional). Retention. PERMISSION FOR THE RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF MINOR ALTERATIONS TO A DWELLING H. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/106641 - 5 Jun 2018, Wexford County Council 20180753: Refused. Permission, 1 home. PERMISSION SOUGHT FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/106378 - 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 Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WX036-046: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX036-046----. Located towards the bottom of the NE-facing slope of a NE-SW ridge. This is a rectangular area in mixed wood (dims. 27m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by earthen banks (Wth 4m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.5m) with an external flat-bottomed moat (Wth of base 3-7m; ext. D 1.6m) and an outer bank (Wth c. 3m; ext. H c. 0.5m) on each side. There is an entrance (Wth 1.8m) through the inner bank and a causeway (Wth 4m) towards the W end of the S side. (Barry 1977, 221, WX 68) 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: 8 November, 2012 - WX036-091: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX036-091----. Situated towards the bottom of a N-facing slope. The vegetation mark in grass of a subrectangular or D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 30m NE-SW; c. 27m NW-SE defined by a single fosse is visible on iMaps (2022). It is also visible on MapGenie (1999-2003), and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached views from _02 MapGenie (1999-2003) and _03 iMAPs (2022) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 June 2023 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Growtown Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Growtown Upper, about 1 in 10 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Growtown Upper. - 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-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/growtown-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/growtown-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Growtown Upper 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) - Ballintlea: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballintlea-240153.md - Ballywether: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballywether.md - Cools: https://everytownland.com/wexford/cools-240915.md - Coolstuff: https://everytownland.com/wexford/coolstuff.md - Coolteen: https://everytownland.com/wexford/coolteen.md - Crandonnell: https://everytownland.com/wexford/crandonnell.md - Growtown Lower: https://everytownland.com/wexford/growtown-lower.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-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/growtown-upper