Loughgerald
Townland in the civil parish of Clonmore, barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish Loch Ghearailt
- Area
- 43.5 ha
- 107 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 2,229 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughgerald, from 2 m² to 207,883 m² (20.79 ha, 51.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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 Loughgerald 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
25 Mar 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for alterations to existing entrance and for the formation of
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260366
21 May 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention and completion of garden shed including
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250588
27 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a two storey extension and alterations
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250243
9 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a first floor extension & alterations to existing
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220151
25 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for the sun room, main roof, porch, pergola & increased
Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210436
13 Aug 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE REPAIR, REFURBISHMENT, UPGRADING AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING 4-
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191135
23 Jul 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE REPAIR, REFURBISHMENT, UPGRADING AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191051
9 Feb 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR A 10 YEAR PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN UP TO 5MW SOLAR P
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170132
7 Mar 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160216
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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slaney River Valley 000781
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Loughgerald.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Loughgerald.
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 high, moderately low, 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_2916 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Loughgerald with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Loughgerald · Loch Ghearailt
- Area
- 434,743 m² (43.47 ha, 107.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Bree, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Bree electoral division: 1,509 people in 508 households; 89% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Loughgerald 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.