Ruaunmore
Townland in the civil parish of Killincooly, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Ruán Mór
- Area
- 104.9 ha
- 259 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 3,648 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ruaunmore, from 36 m² to 240,848 m² (24.08 ha, 59.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ruaunmore 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
5 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a new dwelling with services including wastewater
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260008
29 Aug 2025Refused
Permission to erect a new dwelling with services including
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251081
1 Apr 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect an agricultural machinery storage building
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250358
19 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231546
21 Feb 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to upgrade the existing vehicular entrance serving dwelling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230157
13 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211447
13 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211448
23 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211188
16 Jan 2020Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200033
13 Nov 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE RENOVATION OF AND MODIFICATIONS TO THE EXISTING HOUSE, CONSTR
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191515
23 Sept 2019Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191300
21 Jan 2019Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190061
20 Nov 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171508
12 Jun 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170745
29 May 2017N/a
PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170659
13 Feb 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170156
25 Jan 2017Refused
RETENTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED ON SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170054
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 Ruaunmore.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ruaunmore.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ruaunmore.
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
- 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 Ruaunmore.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ruaunmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ruaunmore · An Ruán Mór
- Area
- 1,049,220 m² (104.92 ha, 259.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killincooly, 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
- Ballinlow, Ballygarran, Ballygortin, Ballyrahin, Boira South, Dughlone, Newtown, Tinteskin
- Placenames
- Ruaunmore 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.