Tomsilla Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltennell, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish Tom Saileach Uachtarach
- Area
- 95.4 ha
- 236 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 1,565 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tomsilla Upper, from 10 m² to 319,962 m² (32 ha, 79.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Upper 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
14 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for a) the construction of agricultural sheds and
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250867
5 Jan 2023Refused
PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED SOLAR FARM COMPRISING SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) PANELS
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20170077
6 Sept 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect an extension to side of existing dwellinghouse consisting
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221191
8 Apr 2022Refused
Permission to erect a self-contained residential unit for use by a family member
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220459
13 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for the change of use of the existing building from agr
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211961
16 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for Retention of alterations to the rear of the dwelling and retentio
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210561
1 Apr 2021N/a
Permission for retention of alterations to the rear of the dwelling and retentio
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210484
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 Tomsilla Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tomsilla Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tomsilla Upper.
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 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_3244 (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 Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Tomsilla Upper · Tom Saileach Uachtarach
- Area
- 954,476 m² (95.45 ha, 235.86 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
- Banoge, Kilbride, Mountalexander, Raheenagurren West, Tomsilla Lower
- Placenames
- Tomsilla Upper 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.