Oulart
Townland in the civil parish of Meelnagh, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish An tAbhallort
- Area
- 163.9 ha
- 405 acres
- Land parcels
- 96
- registered freehold, median 3,968 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
96 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oulart, from 161 m² to 158,094 m² (15.81 ha, 39.07 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 Oulart 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
29 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the development which will consist of: Alterations to a
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260525
22 Apr 2026N/a
Planning Permission the development will consist of: Alterations to a previously
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260484
8 Apr 2026N/a
Alterations to previously granted permission (Planning Reg No. 20250074)
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260422
28 Jan 2026N/a
Permission for the proposed erection of 1 number fully serviced dwelling and
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260094
17 Apr 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for 1) existing domestic shed 2) existing domestic
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250454
14 Apr 2025Granted (conditional)
1. Permission for change of use of existing two-storey dwelling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250432
14 Mar 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a 9.4 m2 extension to the rear of dwelling house
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250295
18 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an extension to the east facing side
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250198
23 Jan 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of 1 number fully serviced dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250074
4 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241508
5 Jan 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING: I) A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180007
13 Dec 2017N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING i) A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE i
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171635
20 Nov 2017Granted (conditional)
RETENTION PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS DURING CONSTRUCTION TO A FULLY SERVICED DET
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171514
21 Sept 2017N/a
PERMISSION FOR A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED AND
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171257
2 Jun 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF PORTAL FRAME UNIT WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170693
8 Mar 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING AND GARAGE WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160227
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 Oulart.
Recorded monuments
- WX021-044 Battlefield
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1842–1903 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1903, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on timber construction with clay ridge tiles centred on paired red brick Running bond chimney stacks having chamfered stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered red brick header bond eaves. Gritdashed roughcast walls on overgrown plinth with "sparrow pecked" rendered flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with overgrown threshold, and "sparrow pecked" rendered block-and-start surround with fittings now boarded up. Square-headed window openings with lichen-spotted cut-granite sills, and "sparrow pecked" rendered block-and-start surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows. 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 back from line of road in overgrown grounds with roughcast-panelled rendered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting flat iron gate.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Oulart with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Oulart · An tAbhallort
- Area
- 1,639,384 m² (163.94 ha, 405.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Meelnagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Electoral division
- Bolaboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Bolaboy electoral division: 1,252 people in 440 households; 79% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bolaboy More, Garra, Kyle, Monawilling Lower, Monawilling Upper
- Placenames
- Oulart 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.