Perrymount
Perrymount is a townland in the civil parish of Inch (Gorey Ra), barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Abhacáin.
- Area
- 40.2 ha
- 99 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 6,385 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Perrymount, from 1,333 m² to 148,684 m² (14.87 ha, 36.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Perrymount 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
20 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251336
7 May 2024Refused
Permission to construct a commercial storage building which will consist of
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240512
28 Feb 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of the following works: (a) Alterations to the design
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230193
6 Sept 2022Refused
Permission for retention of existing detached domestic garage/store
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221193
22 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)
1) Permission to erect a dwelling as a change of house design from that granted
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220531
20 Oct 2021N/a
Permission for retention of existing detached domestic garage/store
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211620
15 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to 1)Erect a dwelling as a change of house design from that granted p
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210048
8 Jun 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a two-storey dwelling with services and domestic garage with
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20200595
17 Feb 2020Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR 2 NUMBER DWELLING HOUSES WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200190
9 Sept 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF 2 NUMBER DWELLING HOUSES WITH ASSOCIATED SITE
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20191256
14 May 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A TWO-STOREY DWELLING WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SERVICES WITH
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180640
5 Feb 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO APPROVED TWO-STOREY DWELLING WITH SER
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180138
10 Apr 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO APPROVED TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170431
13 Feb 2017N/a
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO APPROVED TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH SER
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170152
7 Mar 2016Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160221
15 Feb 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO APPROVED TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160133
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 Perrymount.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Perrymount.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Perrymount.
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 Perrymount, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Perrymount.
- 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 Perrymount with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Perrymount · Baile Abhacáin
- Area
- 401,645 m² (40.16 ha, 99.25 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inch (Gorey Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Ballylarkin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 938 people lived in 311 households in the Ballylarkin electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bolabradda, Boleybaun, Cronecribbin, Fortchester Lower, Inch
- Placenames
- Perrymount 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.