Upton
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmuckridge, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish Toinn an Mhuine
- Area
- 87 ha
- 215 acres
- Land parcels
- 70
- registered freehold, median 208 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 20
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Upton, from 125 m² to 285,505 m² (28.55 ha, 70.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Upton 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
9 Jul 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission is sought for (a) The demolition of an existing derelict building
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260912
10 Jun 2026N/a
Permission for a single storey extension to the rear of the existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260755
14 May 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for extension and renovation to existing two-storey dwelling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260607
22 Sept 2025N/a
Permission to demolish existing 37.1 m2 rear extension to dwelling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251193
29 Aug 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for a) a domestic extension to the rear and side
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241038
2 Aug 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for (a) demolition of existing derelict building
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240923
24 Feb 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to install a 21m multi-user lattice type telecommunications support
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230184
16 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of extension of approx. 93.7sqm to existing workshop
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221515
31 Aug 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention is sought for the as built single storey extension to t
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221157
31 May 2022Refused
Permission for the proposed changes to previously granted planning permission
Permission, 6 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220719
18 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to amend condition number 4 of Planning Register Number 20201163 rest
Permission, 5 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210389
9 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for (i) Permission for a change of use from 2nd floor hotel bedrooms
Permission, 5 homes · Wexford County Council, 20201163
9 Jul 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to convert existing attic roof space and to construct a dormer roof e
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200755
12 Jun 2020Refused
Permission for the proposed construction of 56 no. dwellings compromising of: 12
Permission, 56 homes · Wexford County Council, 20200617
27 Mar 2020N/a
Permission for the construction of 56 no. dwellings comprising of 12 no. 2 store
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200391
11 Oct 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCI
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181400
8 Dec 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171620
30 Nov 2017N/a
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOC
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171562
11 Jul 2017Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170904
15 Aug 2016Granted (conditional)
ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE / STORE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160909
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 Upton.
Recorded monuments
- WX022-013003 Habitation site
Description
Situated on a slight N-facing slope. Archaeological testing (18E0334) in the area between the church of Ballynure (WX022-013001-) and its associated holy well (WX022-014----) located c. 130m to the E identified numerous features in Upton townland including a pit (dims 2.3m plus; D 0.25m plus) which produced medieval pottery. There was also an E-W fosse (Wth c. 3m; L 10m plus), gullies, a charcoal-flecked clay floor (dims c. 20m plus E-W; c. 3m N-S), pits and a second clay floor (dim. 12m plus). Medieval pottery was recovered from the first pit, but other wares together with worked flints were found throughout the tested area, suggesting that the habitation floors are prehistoric, perhaps Bronze Age, in date. (McLoughlin 2018) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 August, 2018
- WX022-014 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Marked on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and described as a holy well on both. It is located towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of a low N-S ridge. This is a natural spring against a N-S field bank and townland boundary, but there is no evidence of, or record of, veneration. The church site (WX022-013001-) is c. 100m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 June, 2012
- WX022-033 Enclosure
Description
Situated on the E-facing slope towards the N end of a slight NE-SW ridge (L c. 300m). The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 63m) defined by a single fosse with an entrance (Wth c. 5m) at E is visible on iMAPs (2022). There are old quarries visible in the interior that are also depicted on the historical mapping, and the perimeter is truncated (L c. 45m) by a NNE-SSW roadway at W. Field drains attach to the fosse at N and S but other field drains that are visible are likely to be more modern. Archaeological testing c. 40m to the N identified habitation floors with medieval material (WX022-013003-) which probably relates to this enclosure as much as to the site of a graveyard in Ballynure (WX022-013002-) c. 30m to the NW. The enclosure is also visible on MapGenie (2004-06), and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from iMAPs (2022) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 June 2023
- WX022-034 Ring-ditch
Description
Located at the crest of the E-facing slope of a low hill. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 10-11m) defined by a continuous fosse is visible on iMAPs 2022. It is also visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018) and MapGenie (2004-06). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from iMAPs (2022) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 June 2023
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Upton.
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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Upton.
- 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 Upton with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Upton · Toinn an Mhuine
- Area
- 869,508 m² (86.95 ha, 214.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmuckridge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Electoral division
- Ford, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ford electoral division: 691 people in 261 households; 75% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynure, Castleannesley, Cosher, Litter Beg, Morriscastle, Tinteskin
- Placenames
- Upton 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.