# Pollwitch, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Mayglass, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford; in Irish Poll Bhoits. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 83,127 m² (8.31 ha, 20.54 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,237 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Mayglass, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/mayglass.md - Barony: Forth - Electoral division: Mayglass, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 600 people lived in 195 households in the Mayglass electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54267 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241883 - Centre: latitude 52.241979, longitude -6.507875 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollwitch, from 130 m² to 43,619 m² (4.36 ha, 10.78 acres); 4 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2603981: 43,619 m² (4.36 ha, 10.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2603981.md - Parcel 403853: 30,442 m² (3.04 ha, 7.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/403853.md - Parcel 409538: 2,493 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/409538.md - Parcel 377667: 2,292 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/377667.md - Parcel 408292: 2,181 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/408292.md - Parcel 362514: 2,148 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/362514.md - Parcel 395750: 223 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/395750.md - Parcel 386677: 130 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/386677.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Pollwitch in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 3 Dec 2024, Wexford County Council 20241495: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission for retention of a first floor gable window and two. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/128192 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Pollwitch. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WX047-148: House - 18th/19th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX047-148----. Located on a low-lying landscape in the village of Mayglass. This is a four-bay thatched vernacular house of two storeys that is constructed of earthen walls over a stone base. It was constructed in a number of phases, dating from c. 1675 to the late 19th century, but it has remained unchanged since then. The house is a variant of the ’lobby entry’ house and retains a number of early features, including its fireplace with a wall oven and some of the windows, but the SW end of the house is thought to be an addition. Both the house and its farm buildings are undergoing a conservation programme since 1998 with support from the Heritage Council (Reeners 2003). Part of the works necessitated the erection of a shed over the structure to shelter it and archaeological excavation (98E0587) in connection with this identified some ground levels associated with the house (Sheehan 2000), but further work under the same licence uncovered original early walls extending outside the present house to the NE (Wren 2000). See this website accessed on 18 October, 2013: http://www.mayglass-2000.ie/project.html Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 October, 2013 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Farm house, 1700–1725, National interest, registry number 15704754, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15704754. Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, built 1703 or 1723, on a T-shaped plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Extended, 1831, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Vacated, 1995. Derelict, 1998. Restored, 1998-2001. Now disused. Replacement hipped oat thatch roof on collared bough construction with chicken wire-covered exposed wire stretchers to ridge having exposed hazel scallops, rendered red brick Running bond central chimney stack, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls; exposed coursed rubble stone to side (east) elevation. Square-headed off-central door opening with rough hewn limestone step threshold, and concealed dressings including timber lintel framing sheet timber door. Square-headed window openings with rough hewn limestone sills (ground floor) or slate sills (dormer attic), and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing three-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including (ground floor): off-central lobby; kitchen (east) retaining hearth with propped timber Bressamer beam supporting limewashed wattle-and-daub canopy; and parlour (west) retaining timber chimneypiece. Set in unkempt grounds perpendicular to road with limewashed cylindrical pier to perimeter having conical capping supporting replacement tubular mild steel "farm gate". ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Pollwitch, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pollwitch. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wexford/pollwitch.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/pollwitch.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/pollwitch.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Pollwitch with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bog East: https://everytownland.com/wexford/bog-east.md - Courtlands East: https://everytownland.com/wexford/courtlands-east.md - Cregg: https://everytownland.com/wexford/cregg.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wexford/pollwitch - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/pollwitch