Parkannesley Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Pháirc Íochtarach
- Area
- 110.3 ha
- 272 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 2,884 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Parkannesley Lower, from 21 m² to 229,210 m² (22.92 ha, 56.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 45 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 Parkannesley Lower 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
22 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the demolition of existing ground floor
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251041
22 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a new bungalow type dwelling with services and domestic
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240314
22 Dec 2023Refused
Permission to erect a new bungalow type dwelling with services and domestic
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231574
13 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for a single storey dwelling, domestic garage and on-site effluent
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221351
20 Jan 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a cattle shed, concrete aprons and all associated site w
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220053
1 Nov 2018Granted (unconditional)
CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20140004
5 Feb 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT SLATTED CATTLE SHED, CONCRETE APRONS AND ALL ASSOCIATED
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180132
6 Jun 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT AN EXTENSION AND CARRY OUT ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING SERVICED
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170705
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 Parkannesley Lower.
Recorded monuments
- WX017-012 Moated site
Description
Located on a slight E-facing slope. This is a wedge-shaped, overgrown area (dims. 61-70m N-S; 49m E-W) defined by earthen banks (Wth 5-6m; int. H 0.6m) with external moats (Wth 5-6m; D below exterior 0.5m) on each side. There is a gap in the bank (Wth 3m) on the W side. (Barry 1977, 226, WX 100) 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 upload/revision: 21 May, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Parkannesley Lower.
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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Parkannesley Lower.
- 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 Parkannesley Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Parkannesley Lower · An Pháirc Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,102,510 m² (110.25 ha, 272.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Electoral division
- Ballygarrett, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballygarrett electoral division: 922 people in 329 households; 87% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygarrett, Bruce, Clonevin, Gerry, Parkannesley Upper, Tingar
- Placenames
- Parkannesley Lower 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.