# Raheennaskeagh Upper, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilnamanagh, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish Ráithín na Sceiche Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 672,458 m² (67.25 ha, 166.17 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,246 m² (0.52 ha, 1.3 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 12 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilnamanagh, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/kilnamanagh.md - Barony: Ballaghkeen North - Electoral division: Wells, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/53292 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241930 - Centre: latitude 52.51486, longitude -6.373013 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raheennaskeagh Upper, from 149 m² to 169,189 m² (16.92 ha, 41.81 acres); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 417452: 169,189 m² (16.92 ha, 41.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/417452.md - Parcel 404996: 108,598 m² (10.86 ha, 26.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/404996.md - Parcel 2711437: 65,187 m² (6.52 ha, 16.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2711437.md - Parcel 429863: 46,728 m² (4.67 ha, 11.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/429863.md - Parcel 396133: 40,869 m² (4.09 ha, 10.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/396133.md - Parcel 415882: 29,362 m² (2.94 ha, 7.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/415882.md - Parcel 401352: 28,906 m² (2.89 ha, 7.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/401352.md - Parcel 391082: 25,973 m² (2.6 ha, 6.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/391082.md - Parcel 4538889: 21,890 m² (2.19 ha, 5.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4538889.md - Parcel 2430286: 18,971 m² (1.9 ha, 4.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2430286.md - Parcel 403874: 17,215 m² (1.72 ha, 4.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/403874.md - Parcel 391466: 15,944 m² (1.59 ha, 3.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/391466.md - Parcel 409368: 15,862 m² (1.59 ha, 3.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/409368.md - Parcel 378969: 8,849 m² (0.88 ha, 2.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/378969.md - Parcel 404575: 7,441 m² (0.74 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/404575.md - Parcel 420897: 5,246 m² (0.52 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/420897.md - Parcel 2736753: 4,809 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2736753.md - Parcel 375293: 4,191 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/375293.md - Parcel 414221: 4,130 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/414221.md - Parcel 407197: 3,853 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/407197.md - Parcel 393050: 3,410 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/393050.md - Parcel 371265: 3,384 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/371265.md - Parcel 396381: 3,259 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/396381.md - Parcel 2711519: 3,004 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2711519.md - Parcel 2688351: 2,939 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2688351.md - Parcel 5156402: 2,936 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5156402.md - Parcel 392356: 2,878 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/392356.md - Parcel 2685655: 2,333 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2685655.md - Parcel 363954: 1,909 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/363954.md - Parcel 407042: 443 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/407042.md - Parcel 2562754: 149 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2562754.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 12 applications, newest first. - 6 Jun 2025, Wexford County Council 20250682: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission for retention of (i) relocation of front entrance door and window on. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/129138 - 25 Jul 2023, Wexford County Council 20230852: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission to change the use of existing domestic garage from domestic storage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/125714 - 13 Sept 2022, Wexford County Council 20221221: Refused. Permission. Permission to change the use of existing domestic garage from domestic storage t. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/124173 - 31 May 2022, Wexford County Council 20220724: Refused. Permission. Permission to change the use of existing domestic garage from domestic. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/123636 - 5 Jul 2021, Wexford County Council 20211061: Granted (conditional). Retention, 2 homes. 1. Permission to change the use of part of existing dwelling from living to Mont. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/121703 - 21 Jun 2021, Wexford County Council 20210963: N/a. Retention. 1. Permission to change the use of part of existing dwelling from living to Mont. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/121561 - 17 Jul 2020, Wexford County Council 20200801: Refused. Permission, 1 home. Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house and to carry out all associated an. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/115869 - 20 Dec 2019, Wexford County Council 20191716: Refused. Permission, 1 home. PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND TO CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/112499 - 11 Mar 2019, Wexford County Council 20190303: Refused. Permission, 1 home. PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, TO ERECT A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/108140 - 4 Mar 2019, Wexford County Council 20190271: N/a. Permission. PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE TO ERECT A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/108084 - 23 Jul 2018, Wexford County Council 20180997: Refused. Permission, 1 home. PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND TO CA. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/106691 - 27 Apr 2018, Wexford County Council 20180561: N/a. Permission, 1 home. PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH EXISTING EXTENSIONS AND GARAGE AND TO CONSTRUCT A FIRST F. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/106134 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 Raheennaskeagh Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Raheennaskeagh Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Farm house, 1700–1840, Regional interest, registry number 15702136, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15702136. 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, registry number 15702137, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15702137. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, 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/raheennaskeagh-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/raheennaskeagh-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/raheennaskeagh-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Kilnamanagh Lower: https://everytownland.com/wexford/kilnamanagh-lower.md - Kilnamanagh Upper: https://everytownland.com/wexford/kilnamanagh-upper.md - Knockskemolin: https://everytownland.com/wexford/knockskemolin.md - Raheenduff: https://everytownland.com/wexford/raheenduff-241924.md - Raheennaskeagh Lower: https://everytownland.com/wexford/raheennaskeagh-lower.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/raheennaskeagh-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/raheennaskeagh-upper