Mountpill
Mountpill is a townland in the civil parish of Tomhaggard, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Móin Phoill.
- Area
- 71.5 ha
- 177 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 18,680 m² (1.87 ha, 4.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountpill, from 158 m² to 67,557 m² (6.76 ha, 16.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Mountpill 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
19 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for demolition of a detached garage. Erection of a single storey
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241584
13 Dec 2024N/a
Permission for demolition of a detached garage, erection of a single storey
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241554
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Tacumshin Lake SAC 000709
- Special Protection Area: Tacumshin Lake SPA 004092
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tacumshin Lake 000709
Recorded monuments
- WX052-055 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a level landscape. The faint cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 43m) defined by a slight fosse feature is visible only on iMAPs (2022). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from iMAPs (2022) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 6 June 2023
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mountpill.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Mountpill, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountpill.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Mountpill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Mountpill · Móin Phoill
- Area
- 714,854 m² (71.49 ha, 176.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tomhaggard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bargy
- Electoral division
- Tomhaggard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 550 people lived in 205 households in the Tomhaggard electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Crossscales, Oldtown, Tilladavin
- Placenames
- Mountpill 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.