Macoyle Lower
Macoyle Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Kilgorman, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Maigh Coill Íochtarach.
- Area
- 47.7 ha
- 118 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 18,287 m² (1.83 ha, 4.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Macoyle Lower, from 1,822 m² to 188,384 m² (18.84 ha, 46.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Macoyle Lower 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
26 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230729
26 Jul 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING WITH DOMESTIC
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191077
18 Jun 2019Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, CARRY OUT
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190845
23 Apr 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING WITH DOMESTIC
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190536
11 May 2018Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180618
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 Macoyle Lower.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Macoyle Lower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Macoyle Lower.
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 Macoyle Lower, about 1 in 20 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 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 Macoyle Lower.
- 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 Macoyle Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Macoyle Lower · Maigh Coill Íochtarach
- Area
- 476,683 m² (47.67 ha, 117.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgorman, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Ballylarkin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 938 people lived in 311 households in the Ballylarkin electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cronecribbin, Hydepark, Inch, Killybegs, Macoyle Upper
- Placenames
- Macoyle Lower 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.