Loggan Upper
Loggan Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Crosspatrick, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Logán Uachtarach.
- Area
- 302.9 ha
- 748 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 30,768 m² (3.08 ha, 7.6 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loggan Upper, from 379 m² to 453,556 m² (45.36 ha, 112.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Loggan Upper 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
2 Jun 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a new replacement wastewater treatment system serving
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260706
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 Loggan Upper.
Recorded monuments
- WX002-006 Enclosure
Description
Marked as circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of a N-facingl slope of Annagh Hill above a SE-NW spur. Aerial photograph (CUCAP, BGF 10) shows the cropmark of a rectangular enclosure (int. dims. c. 30m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) with two parallel fosses (Wth c. 2m) or a wide moat (Wth c. 6m). It is not visible at ground level. 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. Cmpiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 27 January 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Loggan Upper.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Loggan Upper, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Loggan Upper.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Loggan Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Loggan Upper · An Logán Uachtarach
- Area
- 3,028,722 m² (302.87 ha, 748.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Crosspatrick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Wingfield, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,045 people lived in 328 households in the Wingfield electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghhill, Ballynabarney, Connahill, Coolafancy (Co. Wicklow), Cummerduff, Loggan Lower, Wingfield
- Placenames
- Loggan Upper 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.