# Monagarrow Upper, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilgorman, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Muine Garbh Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 847,862 m² (84.79 ha, 209.51 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 125,110 m² (12.51 ha, 30.92 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilgorman, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/kilgorman.md - Barony: Gorey - Electoral division: Kilgorman, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 890 people lived in 297 households in the Kilgorman electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/53123 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241673 - Centre: latitude 52.734899, longitude -6.193456 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monagarrow Upper, from 6,402 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres) to 228,676 m² (22.87 ha, 56.51 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 425564: 228,676 m² (22.87 ha, 56.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/425564.md - Parcel 384672: 195,331 m² (19.53 ha, 48.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/384672.md - Parcel 381422: 166,317 m² (16.63 ha, 41.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/381422.md - Parcel 427962: 125,110 m² (12.51 ha, 30.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/427962.md - Parcel 362824: 105,745 m² (10.57 ha, 26.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/362824.md - Parcel 5597536: 20,215 m² (2.02 ha, 5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5597536.md - Parcel 3380777: 6,402 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3380777.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Monagarrow Upper 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) No planning application touches the townland of Monagarrow Upper in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Monagarrow Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WX003-032: Barrow - bowl-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX003-032----. Described as a 'Moat' on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a 'Tumulus' on the 1940 ed. Situated on a scarp immediately overlooking the N-S combined Clonough and Inch Rivers, with the stream immediately to the W. A record made in 1940 includes a fosse (Wth of top c. 7m at W to c. 10m at E; int. D 3-3.5m; ext. D 1.5m) that merges into a berm (Wth c. 10m) S-W, with an outer bank (Wth of base c. 9m; ext. H 3m) SW-NW (OSFM). In 1987 it is a large grass-covered earthen mound (diam. of top 16.5m; diam. of base c. 32m; H c. 3m generally to 5m at W) with some scrub. There is no visible fosse, kerb or outer bank, but it could be a motte. 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: 20 November 2012 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monagarrow Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Monagarrow Upper, about 1 in 20 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Monagarrow Upper. - 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/monagarrow-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/monagarrow-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/monagarrow-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Monagarrow Upper 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) - Castletown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/castletown-240747.md - Hydepark: https://everytownland.com/wexford/hydepark.md - Killowen Upper: https://everytownland.com/wexford/killowen-upper.md - Killybegs: https://everytownland.com/wexford/killybegs.md - Monagarrow Lower: https://everytownland.com/wexford/monagarrow-lower.md - Monalug: https://everytownland.com/wexford/monalug.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/monagarrow-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/monagarrow-upper