Mountgarrett

210 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountgarrett, from 11 m² to 62,201 m² (6.22 ha, 15.37 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Mountgarrett 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.

• 4 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention for the following changes made to existing building

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251257

• 3 Mar 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a two-storey dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250249

• 20 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of dormer windows to the rear of house

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231255

• 17 Aug 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230951

• 21 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed conversion and minor alterations to an existing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230694

• 11 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of an extension to the side of an existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220925

• 13 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for (a) the proposed change of use of the exisiting dwelling house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201342

• 30 Nov 2016N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND ANCILLARY SIT

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161333

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Barrow River Estuary 000698

Recorded monuments

• WX029-008 Well
  Description

  Marked on the 1839 and 19040 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic script on both as ‘Castle Well’. It is located towards the top of a W-facing slope and is only evident as a slightly wetter area. Mountgarrett castle (WX029-009001-) is c. 75m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 August, 2012

• WX029-009 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Located just off the crest of the N-facing slope of a N-S ridge. In 1408 Patrick Barrett, bishop of Ferns, was granted permission to employ masons to built a castle at Mountgarrett (Hore 1900-11, vol. 1, 130-1), and the core of this structure, which has the largest area of any Wexford tower house, may be the bishop’s work. Sir Richard Butler, the second son of Sir Pierce Butler, 8th earl of Ormonde, became the first Lord Mountagarret in 1550, and he may have substantially re-built it in its present form. It is a five storey tower house (ext. dims. 13.8m N-S; 10.8m E-W) surviving partially to the wall walk with a base batter, most marked on the N wall, quoins and a pointed entrance with a yett, probably inserted, at the centre of the S wall. There were the remains of a guardroom inside entrance to the E with a spiral stairs at the SW angle. The entrance to the ground floor does not survive and there is no evidence of a barrel vault. There is evidence of four garderobe chutes in disparate locations on the upper floors. There are fireplaces (destroyed) at the first and second floors. There are musket loops at the NW angle and a large mullion and transom window with gun loops in the N wall at the second floor. There is evidence of a bawn (dims. 35m E-W; c. 60m N-S), which had surviving walls in 1839 (ibid.) visible as low scarps to the SW. After severe frosts in the winter of 2009-10 the S wall and adjacent parts of the W wall fell on February 5th 2010. A programme of remedial works were carried out on the structure in 2012 (Nolan 2012, 1-20) but a further collapse of the NE angle occurred early in February 2016. 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 revision: 15 February 2016 Revised by: Claire Breen

• WX029-009001 Bawn
  Description

  Located just off the crest of the N-facign slope of a N-S ridge. There is evidence of a bawn (dims. 35m E-W; c. 60m N-S) at Mountgarrett tower house (WX029-009----) which had surviving walls in 1839 (Hore 1900-11, vol. 1, 130) and is visible as low scarps to the SW of the tower house. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 August, 2012

• WX029-014 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Described as a ‘Rag Well’ in gothic script on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a very steep W-facing slope down to the N-S River Barrow/Nore. This is a natural spring in a rock pool that overflows into a muddy stream. There is no structure at the spring and there is no evidence that there was ever a rag tree or that it was ever venerated. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 August, 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2520 (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.

• Mountgarrett, New Ross5 sales

Name

Mountgarrett · Móta Gairéad

Area

349,785 m² (34.98 ha, 86.43 acres)

Civil parish

St. Mary's, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

New Ross Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

New Ross Rural electoral division: 4,164 people in 1,475 households; 52% of households own their home; 54% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardross, Barrettspark, Craywell, Knockavilla, Macmurroughs, Mountelliott

Placenames

Mountgarrett 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.