Knockmarshal

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockmarshal, from 133 m² to 158,590 m² (15.86 ha, 39.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Knockmarshal 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.

• 15 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a general purpose storage shed for agricultural use

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231521

• 1 Sept 2023Refused

  Permission to construct an agricultural shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231039

• 13 Sept 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of an extension to the rear of existing dwelling and

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221216

• 1 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage.

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211684

• 8 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of Garage/Shed with associated site works

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210010

• 25 May 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of existing domestic garage

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200536

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockmarshal.

Recorded monuments

• WX025-014 Moated site
  Description

  Marked as a rectangular embanked or moated enclosure on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a rectangular enclosure with two moats (ext. dims. c. 70m NE-W; c. 70m NW-SE) on the 1924 ed. Located on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape. This is a square, grass-covered area (42m NW-SE; 42m NE-SW) defined by infilled moats (Wth 6.5-8m; D 0.2-0.4m), but there is no evidence of a second moat. (Barry 1977, 223, WX 81) 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: 3 July, 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockmarshal.

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2884 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Knockmarshal with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Knockmarshal · Cnoc an Mharascalaigh

Area

1,037,350 m² (103.74 ha, 256.33 acres)

Civil parish

St. Johns (Enniscorthy Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Enniscorthy Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Enniscorthy Rural electoral division: 10,897 people in 4,009 households; 56% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynapierce, Bloomfield, Clohass, Jamestown, Moneyheer, Tomnalossett

Placenames

Knockmarshal 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.