Tomona
Townland in the civil parish of Templeshanbo, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish Tuaim Mhóna
- Area
- 155.7 ha
- 385 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 4,355 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tomona, from 64 m² to 157,842 m² (15.78 ha, 39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Tomona 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 May 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the following works: (a) refurbishment of existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240543
18 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)
Retention planning permission of temporary siting of existing mobile home, reten
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211599
8 May 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH AN EXISTING 29SQM SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE AND TO
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190616
15 Feb 2018Granted (conditional)
PEREMISSION FOR RETENTION OF THE FOLLOWING : (A) ALTERATIONS TO ELEVATIONS OF DW
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180185
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 Tomona.
Recorded monuments
- WX019-001 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
Situated on a W-facing slope with the N-S Urin River c. 300m to the W. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 90m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; H 2m) NNW-NE and elsewhere by the remains of a bank or a scarp. The entrance (Wth 5m) is at NNE. A trial excavation found the base of a bank (Wth c. 6m) with an internal fosse (Wth of top c. 2.5m; D c. 1m) and an external fosse (Wth of top c. 5m; D c. 1.2m) at S (Fanning 1972). 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 revision/upload: 22 May, 2012
Architectural heritage
- Buck's Bridge, bridge, 1842–1903 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch hump back road bridge over river, extant 1903. Sited spanning Urrin River with unkempt banks to river.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Tomona.
- 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 Tomona with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Tomona · Tuaim Mhóna
- Area
- 1,557,300 m² (155.73 ha, 384.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeshanbo, and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- Kiltealy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kiltealy electoral division: 510 people in 189 households; 82% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinlug East, Ballybreen, Coolree, Mocurry East, Mocurry West
- Placenames
- Tomona 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.