Moorfields

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moorfields, from 142 m² to 269,727 m² (26.97 ha, 66.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Moorfields 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.

• 14 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and attached carp

  Permission, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20241266

• 5 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and including

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201143

• 5 Mar 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180253

• 30 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF AN OLD UNUSED COTTAGE AND THE INS

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170384

• 23 Mar 2016Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION PERMISSION FOR THE EXISTING SLATTED UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANKS,

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160298

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 Moorfields.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moorfields.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moorfields.

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 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 Moorfields.

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 Moorfields with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Moorfields · Páirceanna na Móna

Area

1,574,108 m² (157.41 ha, 388.97 acres)

Civil parish

Oldross, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Old Ross, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Old Ross electoral division: 498 people in 150 households; 85% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynabola, Carrigadaggan, Courthoyle New, Courthoyle Old, Heathpark, Millquarter

Placenames

Moorfields 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.