Tomathone Lower
Tomathone Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Kilnenor, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Tom an Tamhain Íochtarach.
- Area
- 104.4 ha
- 258 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 54,890 m² (5.49 ha, 13.56 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tomathone Lower, from 1,863 m² to 380,279 m² (38.03 ha, 93.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tomathone Lower 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
15 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a steel framed agricultural shed consisting of slatted tanks
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220801
22 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of changes to existing granny flat (as a
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211809
15 Nov 2021Refused
Permission to erect a steel framed agricultural shed consisting of slatted tanks
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211754
19 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permisson for development which will consist of the construction of:
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201380
9 Nov 2020N/a
Permission to erect a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic garage
Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20201305
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 Tomathone Lower.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tomathone Lower.
Architectural heritage
- Borleagh House, graveyard/cemetery, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Private burial ground, opened 1857. Set in wood in landscaped grounds shared with Borleagh House with wrought iron railings to perimeter centred on "Guilloche"-detailed wrought iron piers supporting wrought iron gate.
- Borleagh House, mausoleum, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding single-bay single-stage mausoleum, dated 1857, on a rectangular plan. Moss-covered granite ashlar stepped roof. Lichen-spotted granite ashlar battered walls on cut-granite chamfered plinth on moss-covered cut-granite base. Square-headed door opening with lichen-spotted cut-granite monolithic surround framing embossed cast-iron door ("1857"). Set in private burial ground in wood in landscaped grounds shared with Borleagh House.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Tomathone Lower, about 1 in 10 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 Tomathone Lower.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Tomathone Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Tomathone Lower · Tom an Tamhain Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,044,411 m² (104.44 ha, 258.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnenor, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Limerick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,056 people lived in 341 households in the Limerick electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughullen, Ballyconlore, Borleagh, Borleagh Demesne, Tomathone Upper, Tomcoyle
- Placenames
- Tomathone Lower 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.