Monfin

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monfin, from 128 m² to 256,772 m² (25.68 ha, 63.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Monfin 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.

• 20 Nov 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention for a single storey side extension

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231385

• 19 Jan 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store and associate

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220045

• 14 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house with domestic gar

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210931

• 11 Jun 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the propsed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20200612

• 2 Jun 2020N/a

  Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and dome

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200568

• 20 Apr 2020Granted (unconditional)

  PERMISSION FOR A PARENT APARTMENT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20150526

• 17 Apr 2019Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICEDE DWELLING HOUSE AND

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190505

• 8 Feb 2019Refused

  PERMISSION FOR EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190163

• 30 Jan 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190107

• 14 Sept 2018Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOME

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181256

• 2 Jul 2018N/a

  PERMISSION FOR AN EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SI

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180889

• 29 Sept 2017Granted (unconditional)

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY BUILDING WITH AN AREA OF 648 SQ. M. FOR RETAIL USE,

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20120620

• 26 Oct 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING CONVENIENCE SHOP AT EXISTING PETROL FIL

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161191

• 17 Jun 2016Refused

  DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF A 10 YEAR PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SOLAR

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160689

• 16 May 2016Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING COTTAGE AND RETENTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160508

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Monfin.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Monfin.

Architectural heritage

• Monfin House, house, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey house, built 1823, on a square plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1940. Resold, 2000. Restored, 2001. For sale, 2007. Hipped slate roof on an E-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves on rendered "Cavetto" cornice retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Segmental-headed central door opening in tripartite arrangement approached by flight of three cut-granite steps, timber doorcase with engaged columns on plinths supporting iron-covered cornice on roundel-detailed panelled frieze, and concealed dressings having concave reveals framing glazed timber panelled double doors having sidelights below fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and picture railing below moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on "Acanthus"-detailed ceiling rose; square-headed door opening into staircase hall with carved timber surround framing timber panelled door; staircase hall (west) with moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling, staircase on a dog leg plan with "spindle" balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in volute, carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled door, and picture railing below moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; drawing room (south-east) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, and picture railing below moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on decorative plasterwork ceiling rose; dining room (north-east) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, and picture railing below plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on plasterwork ceiling rose; and (first floor): carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site with rendered piers to perimeter having ball finial-topped capping supporting replacement tubular mild steel "farm gate".

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).

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.

No address of the register names Monfin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Monfin · Móin Fhinn

Area

835,573 m² (83.56 ha, 206.47 acres)

Civil parish

St. Johns (Enniscorthy Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Enniscorthy Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Enniscorthy Rural electoral division: 10,897 people in 4,009 households; 56% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynapierce, Lucas's Park, St. John's, Sweetfarm, Tomnalossett

Placenames

Monfin 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.