# Solsborough, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clone, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Ráithín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,075,638 m² (107.56 ha, 265.8 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,862 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clone, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/clone.md - Barony: Scarawalsh - Electoral division: Tinnacross, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Tinnacross electoral division: 1,037 people in 350 households; 86% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 6% 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/52718 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 242109 - Centre: latitude 52.529227, longitude -6.524316 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Solsborough, from 59 m² to 188,925 m² (18.89 ha, 46.68 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 396649: 188,925 m² (18.89 ha, 46.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/396649.md - Parcel 387272: 125,590 m² (12.56 ha, 31.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/387272.md - Parcel 383499: 119,227 m² (11.92 ha, 29.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/383499.md - Parcel 399745: 118,493 m² (11.85 ha, 29.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/399745.md - Parcel 5180028: 88,067 m² (8.81 ha, 21.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5180028.md - Parcel 5063654: 72,985 m² (7.3 ha, 18.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5063654.md - Parcel 399061: 33,187 m² (3.32 ha, 8.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/399061.md - Parcel 397010: 27,835 m² (2.78 ha, 6.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/397010.md - Parcel 381941: 27,209 m² (2.72 ha, 6.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/381941.md - Parcel 5180059: 22,983 m² (2.3 ha, 5.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5180059.md - Parcel 5063647: 14,210 m² (1.42 ha, 3.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5063647.md - Parcel 388078: 9,003 m² (0.9 ha, 2.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/388078.md - Parcel 385171: 8,389 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/385171.md - Parcel 420377: 7,375 m² (0.74 ha, 1.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/420377.md - Parcel 421484: 7,254 m² (0.73 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/421484.md - Parcel 4873769: 5,933 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4873769.md - Parcel 2726949: 5,186 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2726949.md - Parcel 430754: 4,472 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/430754.md - Parcel 372019: 4,463 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/372019.md - Parcel 3085714: 4,293 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3085714.md - Parcel 3447270: 3,943 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3447270.md - Parcel 5382020: 3,889 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5382020.md - Parcel 3227245: 3,835 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3227245.md - Parcel 5610003: 3,500 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5610003.md - Parcel 5587304: 3,325 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5587304.md - Parcel 5663621: 3,246 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5663621.md - Parcel 409067: 3,230 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/409067.md - Parcel 413593: 3,127 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/413593.md - Parcel 373500: 2,412 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/373500.md - Parcel 418838: 2,162 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/418838.md - Parcel 5418158: 2,105 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5418158.md - Parcel 2726953: 1,914 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2726953.md - Parcel 5381993: 1,693 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5381993.md - Parcel 413431: 1,484 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/413431.md - Parcel 418762: 1,390 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/418762.md - Parcel 394954: 1,357 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/394954.md - Parcel 396402: 1,118 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/396402.md - Parcel 2726981: 962 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2726981.md - Parcel 399989: 657 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/399989.md - Parcel 5970853: 372 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5970853.md - Parcel 5970841: 179 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5970841.md - Parcel 5418157: 113 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5418157.md - Parcel 367976: 107 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/367976.md - Parcel 2726950: 59 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2726950.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Solsborough 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) 9 applications, newest first. - 17 Jan 2025, Wexford County Council 20250041: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for development of home office and domestic garage/store. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/128390 - 16 Aug 2021, Wexford County Council 20211316: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission to erect a steel framed building which will be ancillary to my. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/121982 - 30 Jul 2021, Wexford County Council 20211236: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission to erect a steel framed building for the purpose of storing vintage a. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/121891 - 18 Oct 2019, Wexford County Council 20191413: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A FULLY SERVICED TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATE. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/111156 - 7 Oct 2019, Wexford County Council 20191366: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SITE. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/111005 - 17 May 2019, Wexford County Council 20190657: Refused. Permission. PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A FULLY SERVICED EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/108561 - 3 May 2019, Wexford County Council 20190606: Refused. Permission. PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A FULLY SERVICED TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIAT. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/108493 - 3 May 2019, Wexford County Council 20190607: Refused. Permission, 1 home. PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A FULLY SERVICED TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIAT. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/108491 - 27 Aug 2018, Wexford County Council 20181169: Refused. Permission, 1 home. PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/106896 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC, site code 000781, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000781 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slaney River Valley, site code 000781 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WX020-013: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX020-013----. Located on a W-facing slope of a low E-W ridge overlooking the N-S River Slaney, which is c. 250m to the W. This is a schist stone aligned NE–SW with a rectangular cross-section (dims 1m x 0.75m; H 1.8m). It has a cupmark on the NE side. 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: 31 May, 2012 - WX020-014: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX020-014----. Located on a broad, low E-W ridge. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by an interupted and uncertain fosse feature is visible on the oblique aerial photograph (CUCAP, BGF 35). It is not visible at ground level in 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: 31 May, 2012 Amended: 29 April, 2014 - WX020-015: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX020-015----. Situated at the crest of the S-facing slope of a broad E-W ridge. It is described in the 1940s as a square area (dims. c. 30m x 30m) defined by a fosse or moat (Wth c. 2m) on all sides except the N. It had a second outer fosse at the S (SMR file). It has been removed since the 1940s, and nothing is visible at ground level in pasture. (Barry 1977, 227, WX 112) 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: 31 May, 2012 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) - Graveyard/cemetery, 1700–1840, Regional interest, registry number 15702015, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15702015. Burial ground, extant 1840. Set in unkempt grounds. - Saint Paul's Church (Clone), church/chapel, 1830–1835, Regional interest, registry number 15702016, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15702016. Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1831-3; consecrated 1833, on a rectangular plan with pair of single-bay single-storey vestries centred on single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. Pitched slate roof with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, cut-granite "saddleback" coping to gables on rendered kneelers, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered eaves retaining "Lotus"-detailed cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth; rendered, ruled and lined surface finish to tower on benchmark-inscribed cut-granite chamfered plinth with cut-granite "Cavetto" stringcourse (bell stage) supporting cut-granite diagonal obelisk pinnacles centred on battlemented parapets having cut-granite "saddleback" coping. Pointed-arch window openings with carved timber Y-mullions, and cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing one-over-one timber sash windows having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Tudor-headed window opening to chancel (east) with cut-granite sill, carved timber mullions, and cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing one-over-one timber sash windows having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Tudor-headed door opening to tower with granite flagged threshold, and cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding over framing timber boarded double doors having overpanel. Square-headed window opening (second stage), concealed dressings having splayed reveals with hood moulding over framing fixed-pane fitting having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Lancet openings (bell stage), concealed dressings having splayed reveals with hood moulding over framing applied timber Y-mullions on louvered timber fittings. Interior including vestibule (west); square-headed door opening into nave with timber panelled double doors; full-height interior with herring bone-pattern terracotta tiled central aisle between timber pews, pair of polished brass wall monuments (ob. 1854; 1912), Gothic-style pulpit on an octagonal plan with Gothic-style clerk's desk, terracotta tiled stepped dais to chancel (east) with rosette-detailed balusters supporting communion railing centred on Gothic-style altar below "East Window", and diagonal timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled vaulted ceiling in carved timber frame on carved timber cornice. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered, ruled and lined piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed wrought iron double gates. - Solsborough House, farmyard complex, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 15702018, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15702018. Farmyard complex, extant 1840, including (west): Detached eleven-bay single-storey coach house-cum-stable outbuilding on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on collared timber construction with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on wrought iron brackets retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone walls with rough cut limestone flush quoins to corners. Series of five elliptical-headed carriageways (south) with red brick block-and-start surrounds. Square-headed door openings (north) with overgrown thresholds, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber boarded doors; (north): Walled garden on a rectangular plan with coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter having rendered rounded coping. Now disused. Set in unkempt grounds originally shared with Solsborough House. - Solsborough House, gate lodge, 1866–1903, Regional interest, registry number 15702019, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15702019. Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, extant 1903, on an L-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled advanced open porch abutting single-bay single-storey gabled projecting end bay. Sold, 1981. Renovated, ----, to accommodate continued private residential use. Pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof on chamfered timber posts (porch), clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on rendered base having cut-granite chamfered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, scissor trust-detailed perforated timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with timber finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on box eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers downpipes. Part repointed coursed rubble limestone walls with red brick flush quoins to corners. Pointed segmental-headed central door opening with red brick block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing replacement glazed timber boarded door. Pointed-arch or pointed segmental-headed window opening in bipartite arrangement (east) with cut-granite sill, carved timber Y-mullion, and red brick block-and-start surround framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Paired pointed-arch or pointed segmental-headed window openings (west) with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Solsborough House. - Solsborough House, gate lodge, 1866–1903, Regional interest, registry number 15702020, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15702020. Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, extant 1903, on an L-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled advanced open porch abutting single-bay single-storey gabled projecting end bay. Derelict, 1990. Restored, 1991, to accommodate continued private residential use. Pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof on chamfered timber posts (porch), clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks on cut-granite chamfered cushion courses on rendered bases having cut-granite chamfered capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, scissor truss-detailed perforated timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with timber finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on box eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part repointed coursed rubble limestone walls with red brick flush quoins to corners. Pointed segmental-headed central door opening with red brick block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing timber boarded door. Pointed-arch or pointed segmental-headed window opening in bipartite arrangement (west) with cut-granite sill, carved timber Y-mullion, and red brick block-and-start surround framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Paired pointed-arch or pointed segmental-headed window openings (east) with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set back from line of road opposite entrance to grounds of Solsborough House. - Solsborough House, gate lodge, 1866–1903, Regional interest, registry number 15702021, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15702021. Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, extant 1903, on an L-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled advanced open porch abutting single-bay single-storey gabled projecting end bay. Extended, 1997, producing present composition to accommodate continued private residential use. Pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof on chamfered timber posts (porch), clay ridge tiles, rendered red brick Running bond chimney stack on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on rendered base having cut-granite chamfered capping supporting terracotta octagonal or yellow terracotta pots, scissor truss-detailed perforated timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with timber finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on box eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part repointed coursed rubble limestone walls with red brick flush quoins to corners. Pointed segmental-headed central door opening with red brick block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing timber boarded door. Pointed-arch or pointed segmental-headed window opening in bipartite arrangement (east) with cut-granite sill, carved timber Y-mullion, and red brick block-and-start surround framing one-over-one timber sash windows having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Paired pointed-arch or pointed segmental-headed window openings (west) with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing one-over-one timber sash windows having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Solsborough House. - Solsborough House, gates/railings/walls, 1700–1840, Regional interest, registry number 15702022, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15702022. Gateway, extant 1840, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of lichen-spotted rusticated granite ashlar piers on moulded cushion courses on plinths having ogee-detailed cornices below finial-topped capping supporting arrow head-detailed wrought iron double gates. Now disused. One of a pair. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Solsborough House. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2981, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2981.zip (ZIP). - 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/solsborough.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/solsborough.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/solsborough.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Solsborough 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) - Ballynabarny: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballynabarny.md - Ballynahallin: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballynahallin.md - Crane: https://everytownland.com/wexford/crane.md - Kilcannon: https://everytownland.com/wexford/kilcannon.md - Killabeg: https://everytownland.com/wexford/killabeg.md - Toom: https://everytownland.com/wexford/toom.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/solsborough - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/solsborough