Monglass
Townland in the civil parish of Monart, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Mhoing Ghlas
- Area
- 154.6 ha
- 382 acres
- Land parcels
- 67
- registered freehold, median 7,872 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monglass, from 265 m² to 150,694 m² (15.07 ha, 37.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Monglass 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
30 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling and domestic
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260112
23 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of (a) works done to date in the erection of a bedroom
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251738
1 Apr 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a fully serviced dwelling house with domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250355
19 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a new boundary wallto part of frontage of my site and to pro
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211156
23 Oct 2020Refused
Permission for a fully serviced dwelling, domestic garage with associated
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20201239
9 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a fully serviced dwelling house with domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200283
29 May 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION TO DWELLING PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO.
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190751
20 May 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ASSOCIATED AND
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190671
17 May 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR (A) RETENTION OF EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING
Retention, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20190661
15 Apr 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION TO DWELLING PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190492
19 Oct 2018Refused
PERMISSION FOR (A) RETENTION OF EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING
Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20181451
6 Apr 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170409
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 Monglass.
Recorded monuments
- WX019-015 Moated site
Description
Located in a slight hollow of a gentle E-facing slope with a W-E stream c. 60m to the S and the NW-SE River Urin in a deep valley c. 600m to the E. This is a raised rectangular, grass-covered area (dims. 40m ENE-WSW; 38m NNW-SSE) defined by a straight scarp with an external moat (Wth of top 2-3.5m; D below the interior 1.5-2m) on all sides except the N where there is a laneway. The abpve 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: 22 May, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monglass.
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 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_2816 (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 Monglass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Monglass · An Mhoing Ghlas
- Area
- 1,545,791 m² (154.58 ha, 381.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monart, and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- Killoughrum, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killoughrum electoral division: 848 people in 255 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caim, Killoughrum, Kiltrea
- Placenames
- Monglass 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.