Raheennaskeagh Upper

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheennaskeagh Upper, from 149 m² to 169,189 m² (16.92 ha, 41.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Raheennaskeagh Upper 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.

• 6 Jun 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of (i) relocation of front entrance door and window on

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250682

• 25 Jul 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission to change the use of existing domestic garage from domestic storage

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230852

• 13 Sept 2022Refused

  Permission to change the use of existing domestic garage from domestic storage t

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221221

• 31 May 2022Refused

  Permission to change the use of existing domestic garage from domestic

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220724

• 5 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)

  1. Permission to change the use of part of existing dwelling from living to Mont

  Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211061

• 21 Jun 2021N/a

  1. Permission to change the use of part of existing dwelling from living to Mont

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210963

• 17 Jul 2020Refused

  Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house and to carry out all associated an

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200801

• 20 Dec 2019Refused

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND TO CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191716

• 11 Mar 2019Refused

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, TO ERECT A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190303

• 4 Mar 2019N/a

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE TO ERECT A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190271

• 23 Jul 2018Refused

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND TO CA

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180997

• 27 Apr 2018N/a

  PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH EXISTING EXTENSIONS AND GARAGE AND TO CONSTRUCT A FIRST F

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180561

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 Raheennaskeagh Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Raheennaskeagh Upper.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed windbreak. Reroofed, 1973. Replacement pitched fibre-cement slate roof with concrete ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stack having red brick corbelled stepped capping, concrete or rendered coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on roughcast eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth; rendered, ruled and lined surface finish (windbreak). Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Road fronted with rendered piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting wrought iron gate

• Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three- or four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1987. Now disused. Hipped oat thatch roof overhanging lean-to corrugated-iron roofs to window openings to dormer attic with chicken wire-cover rope twist above paired hazel stretchers to ridge having exposed steel or wire scallops, red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed steel or wire scallops. Roughcast battered walls. Square-headed central door opening approached by two concrete steps with rendered flush surround framing replacement glazed uPVC panelled door. Paired square-headed (west) or square-headed (east) window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in unkempt grounds.

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 20 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 Raheennaskeagh Upper.

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

Name

Raheennaskeagh Upper · Ráithín na Sceiche Uachtarach

Area

672,458 m² (67.25 ha, 166.17 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnamanagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen North

Electoral division

Wells, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Wells electoral division: 887 people in 295 households; 83% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kilnamanagh Lower, Kilnamanagh Upper, Knockskemolin, Raheenduff, Raheennaskeagh Lower

Placenames

Raheennaskeagh Upper 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.