Haggard
Townland in the civil parish of Rathroe, barony of Shelburne, Co. Wexford; in Irish An tAgard
- Area
- 309.3 ha
- 764 acres
- Land parcels
- 69
- registered freehold, median 3,002 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Haggard, from 40 m² to 708,344 m² (70.83 ha, 175.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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 Haggard 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
22 Jul 2025Refused
Permission for retention of the conversion of part of public house
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250901
30 May 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of a shed and a front porch and for permission to
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250644
23 May 2023Refused
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced domestic dwelling, effluent
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230564
4 May 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230476
23 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230298
23 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of a shed which has a storage area and stables area
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210420
21 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an over ground prefabricated slurry storage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201588
12 Mar 2018Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYST
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180287
5 Feb 2018N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC EFF
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180123
30 Nov 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED INCORPORATING CUBICLES AND E
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171568
1 Sept 2017Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC EFFL
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171184
20 Jul 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO AGRICULTURAL SHEDS INCORPORATING CUBICLE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170946
19 Jul 2017N/a
PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE,
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170936
26 Jun 2017N/a
PLANNING PERMISSION IS SOUGHT THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170809
16 Jun 2017N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. AGRICULTURAL SHEDS INCORPORATING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170772
3 Oct 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING-HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161089
5 Apr 2016Granted (conditional)
RETENTION FOR THE UNAUTHORISED EXTENSTIONS & ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HO
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160338
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 Haggard.
Recorded monuments
- WX044-046 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on the crest of a gentle SE-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 40m) defined by one fosse feature that is slightly truncated by a NE-SW road at SE is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (264) 33-37) taken in 2001. It is also visible on an OSI series of aerial photographs (2000). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 June, 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Haggard.
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 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 Haggard.
- 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
- Haggard, Ramsgrange5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Haggard · An tAgard
- Area
- 3,092,734 m² (309.27 ha, 764.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathroe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelburne
- Electoral division
- Rathroe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathroe electoral division: 922 people in 347 households; 87% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Battlestown, Curraghmore, Kilbride, Ramsgrange, Shelbaggan
- Placenames
- Haggard 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.