Nevillescourt
Townland in the civil parish of Ballycanew, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford; in Irish Cúil na Pónaire
- Area
- 45.6 ha
- 113 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 542 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Nevillescourt, from 328 m² to 315,146 m² (31.51 ha, 77.87 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 Nevillescourt 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
7 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of craftwork and storage shed
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260013
10 Nov 2025N/a
Permission to retain craftworkshop and storage shed to the rear of the property
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251442
20 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect an agricultural machinery storage shed with associated
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230690
26 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a self contained residential unit for use by family members
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211193
6 Jun 2018Refused
TEMPORARY FIVE YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF TIMBER CABIN WITH AS
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180763
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 Nevillescourt.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Nevillescourt.
Architectural heritage
- Neville's Court, farm house, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1817, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay full-height pedimented breakfront; three-bay two-storey rear (south) elevation. Sold, 1857. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Now disused. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) fibre-cement slate roof (breakfront), clay ridge ties, lichen-covered coping to gables with red brick Running bond chimney stacks to apexes having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and no rainwater goods surviving on fine roughcast eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes with cast-iron rainwater goods to rear (south) elevation on chevron- or saw tooth-detailed rendered cornice. Fine roughcast battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with overgrown threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window opening (first floor) with lunette (gable), cut-granite sill, and concealed red brick voussoirs framing six-over-six timber sash window. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns having two-over-two sidelights. Square-headed window openings to rear (south) elevation centred on round-headed window opening (half-landing) with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing six-over-six (ground floor) or two-over-two (first floor) timber sash windows centred on timber fitting. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in unkempt grounds.
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Nevillescourt.
- 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 Nevillescourt with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Nevillescourt · Cúil na Pónaire
- Area
- 455,748 m² (45.57 ha, 112.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballycanew, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Ballycanew, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballycanew electoral division: 1,227 people in 443 households; 77% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinclare, Ballycanew, Coolook Beg, Monroe
- Placenames
- Nevillescourt 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.