Reedstown

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Reedstown, from 735 m² to 295,701 m² (29.57 ha, 73.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Reedstown 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.

• 18 Nov 2025Refused

  Permission for the conversion of an existing silage pit structure to 2 no.

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251493

• 19 Sept 2023N/a

  Permission for the importation of 7500 tonnes of inert soil material

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231116

• 26 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced two storey dwelling and all asso

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210612

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lady's Island Lake SAC 000704
• Special Protection Area: Lady's Island Lake SPA 004009
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lady's Island Lake 000704

Recorded monuments

• WX053-010 Field system
  Description

  Located on a slight E-facing slope down to Lady’s Island Lough. The cropmarks of rectangular fields (dims c. 50m x c. 50m) covering an area of c. 60 acres (c. 24 ha) are visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP, ASZ 35, BDI 95, BDI 97; ASIAP, WX (105) 26-30). The fields are partially visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (2000) and form strips running E-W. The ring-ditch (WX053-010003-) and rath site (WX053-010002-) are within the fields but not necessarily connected with them. No features are visible at ground level in root crops. 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 upload/revision: 25 March, 2014

• WX053-010001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated towards the N end of a slight N-S rise. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP, WX 105, 27-29). The field system (WX053-010----) is in the same area, but not connected with the enclosure. 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 upload/revision: 25 March, 2014

• WX053-010002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a slight N-S rise. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 5m) defined by a continuous fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (6) 21-3; ASIAP (5) 0). It is within the field system (WX053-010----) but not connected with any element of it. 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 upload/revision: 25 March, 2014

• WX053-086001 Field system
  Description

  Situated on a slight NE-SW rise between the W shore of Lady’s Island Lough and a small inlet of the lake at W. The cropmarks of small fields (dims c. 50m x c. 50m) defined by single ditch features are visible on aerial photographs (MM (44) 16-21) covering an area of c. 15 acres (c. 6 ha). The fields are a continuation of the fields (WX053-010----) extending off to the N but the enclosure sites (WX053-086002-; WX053-086003-) appear to be incorporated into the fields. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 25 March, 2014

• WX053-086002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight NE-SW rise between the W shore of Lady’s Island Lough and a small inlet of the lake at W. The cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a single faint ditch feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (44) 19-21). Drains from the field system (WX053-086001-) are attached to the perimeter. Rath (WX053-086003-) is c. 140m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 25 March, 2014

• WX053-086003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight NE-SW rise between the W shore of Lady’s Island Lough and a small inlet of the lake at W. The cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 15m E-W) defined by a single ditch feature S-W-N is visible on aerial photographs (MM (44) 19-21). It is truncated by a NNW-SSE field bank at E and is not visible on the E side of this feature. The cropmark of a wide drain extends W from the perimeter towards the edge of the inlet of Lady’s Island Lake, which is c. 100m distant. Rath (WX053-086002-) is c. 140m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 25 March, 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Reedstown.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Reedstown, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Reedstown.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

No address of the register names Reedstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Reedstown · Baile an Réadaigh

Area

608,032 m² (60.8 ha, 150.25 acres)

Civil parish

Tacumshin, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Tacumshin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

507 people lived in 204 households in the Tacumshin electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunargate, Ecclestown, Rathshillane, Yoletown

Placenames

Reedstown 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.