Slaght

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Slaght, from 1,930 m² to 438,304 m² (43.83 ha, 108.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Slaght 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.

• 15 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed demolition of existing unfinished house structure

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251306

• 13 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of an extension & renovations of an old farmhouse

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231495

• 30 Jan 2017Refused

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170079

• 22 Dec 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED SINGLE STOREY RESID

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161431

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 Slaght.

Recorded monuments

• WX034-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the bottom of a steep SW-facing slope at the junction with a more gentle incline and at the headwaters of a small SE-NW stream. It is also just below a slight col which is c. 200m to the SE between Ballylane Hill c. 650m to the NNE and a smaller hill c. 350m to the SW. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 35.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank and hedge which is best presernved at N (Wth 7m; int. H 1.8m; ext. H 1.6m), declining towards the S (Wth 5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1m). There is no visible fosse but the perimeter is circumvented by a field bank WNW-ENE with a laneway (Wth 5.5m) between. The entrance (Wth 2.7m) is at ESE. The above 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: 14 September, 2012

• WX034-017 Moated site
  Description

  Situated on a gentle W-facing slope in a small basin with an E-W stream c. 120m to the N. It was described in 1979 as a rectangular area (dims. 24m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by flat-bottomed moats (Wth 2m; D 2-3m) (SMR file). It is evident in 1988 as a rectangular grass-covered area (dims. 32m N-S; 30m E-W) where the moats are still visible as slight depressions. (Barry 1977, 227, WX 110) The above 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: 14 September, 2012

• WX034-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) only on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the head of a SE-NW valley. It is also just down from a col that is c. 150m to the SE between slight hills c. 350m to the NE and c. 300m to the SW. The bank of an enclosure (int. diam. 25m) is visible as a band of yellow clay (Wth 4.5-6m) when the area is ploughed. The above 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: 14 September, 2012

• WX034-031 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 55m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle S-facing slope. It is not visible at ground level in rough pasture. The above 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: 14 September, 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Slaght.

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

At the centre of the townland of Slaght, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Slaght.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Slaght with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Slaght · Sleacht

Area

859,148 m² (85.91 ha, 212.3 acres)

Civil parish

Oldross, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Oldcourt, the unit of the census

Census 2022

741 people lived in 243 households in the Oldcourt electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinteskin, Ballylane West, Ballyverroge, Creakan Lower, Oldcourt

Placenames

Slaght 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.