Horeswood
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmokea, barony of Shelburne, Co. Wexford; in Irish Coill an Hóraigh
- Area
- 90.5 ha
- 224 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 1,250 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Horeswood, from 80 m² to 466,030 m² (46.6 ha, 115.16 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 Horeswood 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
9 May 2025Refused
(1) Permission for retention of 2 no. existing mobile homes
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250541
16 Apr 2025N/a
(1) Permission for retention of 2 no. existing mobile homes
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250451
19 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)
(A) Permission for a side extension to a dwelling, (B) permission for retention
Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20241137
3 Sept 2024N/a
Permission for a side extension to a dwelling, retention of a domestic
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241068
8 Feb 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for existing dwelling as constructed
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240126
25 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for domestic garage as constructed and permission for
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221419
16 Sept 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of alterations to the floor plans and evelations of
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221240
21 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for erection of two dromer windows to the front of the dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211627
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Barrow River Estuary 000698
Recorded monuments
- WX039-059 Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
Description
Situated in the valley of a N-S stream. The remains of a horizontal mill was investigated by the NMI in 1965 (NMI file). No other information is available. 45.2, 27.1 from N. 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: 28 January, 2013
Architectural heritage
- Water pump, 1905–1924 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cast-iron "cow tail" waterpump, extant 1940. Now disused. Set back from line of road with coursed rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter having rendered rounded coping.
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 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Horeswood.
- 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 Horeswood with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Horeswood · Coill an Hóraigh
- Area
- 904,907 m² (90.49 ha, 223.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmokea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelburne
- Electoral division
- Kilmokea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmokea electoral division: 886 people in 306 households; 67% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykeeroge, Ballynamona, Coolerin, Dunbrody, Kilmannock
- Placenames
- Horeswood 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.