North West Slob

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in North West Slob, from 1,583 m² to 569,571 m² (56.96 ha, 140.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 North West Slob 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.

• 1 Aug 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for excavation of existing surface to formation levels and placing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240920

• 22 May 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the demolition and removal of existing two storey

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240580

• 1 May 2024N/a

  Permission for the demolition and removal of existing two storey

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240489

• 26 Apr 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the change of location of the secondary sewage treatment unit

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240455

• 11 Apr 2024N/a

  Permission for the change of location of the secondary sewage treatment

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240393

• 17 Jan 2020Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE UPGRADING OF THE EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, COMPRISING

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200035

• 30 Dec 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE UPGRADING OF THE EXISTING SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM,

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191728

• 20 Oct 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE DECOMMISSIONING OF (SOUTH WEST) EXISTING PUMP INSTALLATION.

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161165

• 11 Oct 2016N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE DECOMMISSIONING OF (SOUTH WEST) EXISTING PUMP INSTALLATION. P

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161122

• 9 Aug 2016N/a

  RETENTION OF EXISTING POWER HOUSE (NORTH EAST). PERMISSION FOR THE

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160892

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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
• Special Protection Area: Wexford Harbour and Slobs SPA 004076
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Wexford Slobs And Harbour 000712

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of North West Slob.

Architectural heritage

• Engine house, 1845–1852 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey pumping station engine house, extant 1852, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey off-central return (west). "Improved", 1910-1, producing present composition. Upgraded, 1967-9. "Restored", 1991. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan with roll moulded terracotta ridge tiles, lichen-spotted cut-granite coping to gables on cut-granite corbel kneelers with roll moulded cruciform finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods retaining cast-iron downpipes. Repointed red brick Flemish bond walls on cut-granite plinth with cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Segmental-headed door opening (south) with cut-granite step threshold, and repointed red brick voussoirs framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Segmental-headed window openings (north) with cut-granite sills, and repointed red brick voussoirs framing timber casement windows having fanlights. Set on slobland.

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 10 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3094 (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.

No address of the register names North West Slob with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

North West Slob · An Slaba Thiar Thuaidh

Area

3,024,571 m² (302.46 ha, 747.39 acres)

Barony

Shelmaliere East

Electoral division

Ardcavan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardcavan electoral division: 3,011 people in 1,125 households; 79% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardcavan, Ardcolm, Ballyla, Beggerin Island, Big Island, Johnstown, Kilmisten, North East Slob

Placenames

North West Slob 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.