Mountalexander
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltennell, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish Muine Alastraim
- Area
- 118.9 ha
- 294 acres
- Land parcels
- 110
- registered freehold, median 2,208 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 20
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
110 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountalexander, from 3 m² to 136,861 m² (13.69 ha, 33.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Mountalexander 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
9 Jul 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of an existing garage and storage shed, together
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260907
13 Feb 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of works to date and permission to complete the
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260178
14 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for a) the construction of agricultural sheds and
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250867
15 May 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the replacement of an existing septic tank with an
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250568
30 Apr 2025N/a
Permission for the replacement of an existing septic tank with an Eurotank
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250504
19 Jul 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of existing domestic storage shed and permission
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240866
24 May 2024N/a
Permission to make alterations to existing domestic storage shed
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240590
17 Jan 2024Refused
Permission for retention of existing steel framed shed for the purpose of
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240028
18 Dec 2023N/a
Permission for retention of existing steel framed shed for the purpose of
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231534
15 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for development which will consist of construction of a fully
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230257
7 Feb 2023N/a
Permission to erect a bungalow with services, a domestic garage and ancillary
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230111
13 Sept 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a two-storey dwelling with services, domestic garage,
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221227
9 May 2022Refused
Permission for development consisting of construction of a fully serviced single
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220612
21 Apr 2022N/a
Permission for retention of existing steel framed domestic workshop to the rear
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220521
20 Jan 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect an extension to our existing dwelling which shall consist of
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220056
20 Dec 2021N/a
Permission to erect an extension to existing dwelling which shall consist of the
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20212013
18 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct 1) extensions to an existing dwelling including
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201587
20 May 2019Refused
RETENTION OF THE INSTALLATION OF AN EN APPROVED TREATMENT UNIT AND FOR PERMISSIO
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190663
5 Nov 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CHANGE OF USE OF OUR DOMESTIC GARAGE TO A GRANNY FLAT AND ALS
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181527
24 Jul 2017N/a
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF THE CONVERSION OF PART OF AN EXISTING DWELLING TO A
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170962
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 Mountalexander.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountalexander.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mountalexander.
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 20 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3269 (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 Mountalexander with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Mountalexander · Muine Alastraim
- Area
- 1,188,595 m² (118.86 ha, 293.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltennell, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Electoral division
- Courtown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Courtown electoral division: 3,012 people in 1,030 households; 79% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycomclone, Kilbride, Mucklow, Raheenagurren East, Raheenagurren West, Tomsilla Upper
- Placenames
- Mountalexander 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.