# Lowlough, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Meelnagh, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish Lólach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 219,247 m² (21.92 ha, 54.18 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,115 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Meelnagh, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/meelnagh.md - Barony: Ballaghkeen North - Electoral division: Castle Talbot, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Castle Talbot electoral division: 987 people in 355 households; 81% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/52331 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241613 - Centre: latitude 52.499021, longitude -6.352923 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lowlough, from 2,624 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres) to 187,606 m² (18.76 ha, 46.36 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 381165: 187,606 m² (18.76 ha, 46.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/381165.md - Parcel 396076: 14,063 m² (1.41 ha, 3.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/396076.md - Parcel 381153: 5,128 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/381153.md - Parcel 409240: 5,102 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/409240.md - Parcel 4966903: 2,828 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4966903.md - Parcel 3840220: 2,624 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3840220.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Lowlough in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 15 Mar 2023, Wexford County Council 20230253: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/125028 - 13 Oct 2022, Wexford County Council 20221352: Refused. Permission, 2 homes. Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/124327 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lowlough. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lowlough. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lowlough. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility 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 Lowlough. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wexford/lowlough.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/lowlough.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/lowlough.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lowlough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballytarsna: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballytarsna-240501.md - Garrybran: https://everytownland.com/wexford/garrybran.md - Killagowan: https://everytownland.com/wexford/killagowan.md - Moneyboe: https://everytownland.com/wexford/moneyboe.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wexford/lowlough - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/lowlough