Tomduff
Townland in the civil parish of St. Johns (Enniscorthy Ra), barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish Tuaim Dhubh
- Area
- 55.3 ha
- 137 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 4,003 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tomduff, from 100 m² to 152,431 m² (15.24 ha, 37.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Tomduff 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
19 Mar 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of extension and alterations to existing dwelling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250313
13 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a new dwelling house with a new onsite
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210026
13 Feb 2020Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING 4 BEDROOM 2 STOREY DETACHED DWELLING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200167
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 Tomduff.
Recorded monuments
- WX026-001 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Marked faintly as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45-50m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of the NE-facing slope of a NE-SW ridge overlooking the NW-SE Urrin River, c. 300-350m to the N and E. 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: 13 July 2012
Architectural heritage
- Carley's Bridge, bridge, 1700–1837 · Regional interest
Description
Three-arch hump back road bridge over river, extant 1840. Part creeper- or ivy-covered walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers having pyramidal capping with overgrown rubble stone soldier course coping to parapets. Series of three round arches with schist-inserted repointed voussoirs. Sited spanning Urrin River with unkempt banks to river.
- Worker's house, 1842–1901 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace three-bay single-storey worker's house with half-dormer attic, occupied 1901, on a rectangular plan. One of a terrace of five. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, grey brick Running bond chimney stack (west) having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves. Rendered coursed rubble stone battered walls with concealed red brick flush quoins to corners. Square-headed door opening (west) with cut-limestone threshold, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one (ground floor) or three-over-six (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Road fronted.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_2883 (ZIP).
- 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 Tomduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Tomduff · Tuaim Dhubh
- Area
- 552,500 m² (55.25 ha, 136.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Johns (Enniscorthy Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Enniscorthy Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Enniscorthy Rural electoral division: 10,897 people in 4,009 households; 56% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bloomfield, Carrigabruse, Daphney, Enniscorthy, Jamestown, Lucas's Park, Templescoby
- Placenames
- Tomduff 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.