Wexford County Council's consultants have recommended a site at Holmestown, in the parish of Glynn-Barntown, near Wexford, as the best choice for the county's new superdump.
The decision provoked a storm of protest from local councillors and anti-landfill campaigners.
Cork-based consultants, Fehily Timoney, said the site, close to the location of the 1798 Battle of the Three Rocks, was the most suitable of the three shortlisted out of an original list of 29.
"We are saddened, but not at all surprised," said Mrs Nancy Stafford, a member of the Barntown Environmental Alliance, formed several months ago to fight any plans to locate the superdump in the parish.
The alliance is due to hold talks tomorrow night to decide its next step.
However, the county manager, Mr Seamus Dooley, has executive powers to order an environmental impact assessment and is proposing to do this at the end of January.
A Fine Gael councillor, Mr Pat Codd, who lives in the Glynn-Barntown area, said he was dismayed at the decision.
The consultants denied the site had been selected from any process other than guidelines set by the Environmental Protection Agency.