Tomsilla Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltennell, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish Tom Saileach Íochtarach
- Area
- 98.4 ha
- 243 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 6,145 m² (0.61 ha, 1.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tomsilla Lower, from 71 m² to 175,953 m² (17.6 ha, 43.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Tomsilla 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
20 May 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to demolish an existing extension, construct extension to the rear
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240560
5 Jan 2023Refused
PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED SOLAR FARM COMPRISING SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) PANELS
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20170077
20 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to amend the design of of the approved development (Planning referenc
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210570
28 May 2020Granted (unconditional)
Permission to amend the design of the approved development (Planning Reference
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200551
3 Apr 2020N/a
Permission to construct an agricultural entrance and to carry out all associated
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200416
4 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO AMEND THE DESIGN OF THE APPROVED DEVELOPMENT (PLANNING REFERENCE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190442
2 Nov 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TEMPORARY (27 YEARS) GROUND-MOUNTED SOLAR
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161217
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Courtown Dunes And Glen 000757
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tomsilla Lower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tomsilla Lower.
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 20 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3270 (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 Tomsilla Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Tomsilla Lower · Tom Saileach Íochtarach
- Area
- 984,135 m² (98.41 ha, 243.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltennell, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Electoral division
- Courtown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Courtown electoral division: 3,012 people in 1,030 households; 79% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinageeloge, Ballinatray Lower, Ballydane, Banoge, Boleany, Courtown, Kilbride, Tomsilla Upper
- Placenames
- Tomsilla 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.