Pollpeasty

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollpeasty, from 86 m² to 412,556 m² (41.26 ha, 101.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Pollpeasty 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.

• 2 Jun 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a two-storey dwelling with services, domestic garage an

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260709

• 9 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a domestic garage with associate site works

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250853

• 2 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention and completion of alterations carried out to that

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220118

• 24 Jan 2022N/a

  Permission for the retention of alterations carried to that approved under Plann

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220068

• 8 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house & domestic ga

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211084

• 7 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of an extension containing a self contained

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20201485

• 23 May 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLINGHOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180691

• 18 Jul 2016Granted (conditional)

  TO PROVIDE A NEW ENTRANCE FROM THE PUBLIC ROAD AND TO CARRY OUT ALL ANCILLARY WO

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160821

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Pollpeasty.

Recorded monuments

• WX024-054 Moated site
  Description

  Marked as a rectangular embanked or moated enclosure (ext. dims. c. 50m E-W; c. 45m N-S) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated in a slight W-E valley with the headwaters of a small W-E stream at a possible holy well (WX024-055----) just to the S. No feature is visible at ground level in pasture. (Barry 1977, 226, WX 102) The abpve 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: 25 June, 2012

• WX024-055 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Described in gothic lettering as St. Paul’s Well on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as Pollpeasty on the 1925 ed. It is situated in a slight W-E valley. It is a natural spring that is now overgrown and the source of a small W-E stream, but it is not regarded locally as a holy well. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 25 June, 2012

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of Christ the King, church/chapel, 1930–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay double-height Catholic church, designed 1936; built 1937-9; dedicated 1939, on a rectangular plan comprising seven-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (south); octagonal spire-topped single-bay four-stage turret (north-east) on an octagonal plan. Repaired, 1967. Renovated, 1970, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roofs with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, precast concrete "Cavetto" coping to gables on precast concrete "Cavetto" corbel kneelers with Cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on precast concrete "Cavetto" consoles retaining cast-iron hoppers and square profile downpipes. Gritdashed roughcast walls on precast concrete chamfered cushion course on plinth with rusticated precast concrete quoins to corners. Lancet window openings centred on "lozenges" with precast concrete block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass quatrefoils. Lancet "Trinity Window" (south) with precast concrete block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening (north) approached by two precast concrete steps, precast concrete block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding framing diagonal timber boarded double doors. Lancet "Trinity Window" (gable) with precast concrete block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass quatrefoils. Interior including vestibule (north); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors having sidelights on panelled risers below overlight; full-height interior with arcaded choir gallery (north) on a half-octagonal plan below stained glass "Trinity Window" (1939), tiled central aisle between cruciform-detailed timber pews, Gothic-style timber stations between stained glass memorial windows (1939), vaulted ceiling in moulded plasterwork frame on moulded plasterwork cornice, and encaustic tiled cut-veined white marble stepped dais to sanctuary (south) reordered, 1970, with pointed-arch chancel arch framing cut-veined white marble panelled altar below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (1939). Set in landscaped grounds with precast concrete chamfered piers to perimeter on precast concrete chamfered plinths having precast concrete chamfered stringcourses below capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

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 5 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 Pollpeasty.

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 Pollpeasty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Pollpeasty · Poll Péiste

Area

1,470,483 m² (147.05 ha, 363.36 acres)

Civil parish

Killegney, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Clonroche, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonroche electoral division: 1,333 people in 463 households; 73% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonleigh, Donard, Killegney, Knockstown, Meelgarrow

Placenames

Pollpeasty 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.