Allenstown Little

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Allenstown Little, from 160 m² to 96,020 m² (9.6 ha, 23.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Allenstown Little 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.

• 28 May 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240603

• 1 Nov 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171406

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Allenstown Little.

Recorded monuments

• WX048-143 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of two parallel ditches placed c. 10-15m apart and running generally E-W (L c. 100m) can be seen on digital aerial photographs (WX048-143_1 to _3) taken in July, 2006. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 2 January, 2014

• WX048-144 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure defined by two fosse features (int. dims c. 30m NNW-SSE; c. 15m ENE-WSW; ext. dims c. 60m NNW-SSE; c. 25m ENE-WSW) S-W-N is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX048-144_1 to _5) taken in July 2006. It is bisected by a NNW-SSE field bank with a house and garden on the E side. The ring-ditch (WX048-150----) is c. 50m to the WNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 January, 2013

• WX048-150 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a small enclosure (diam. c. 5m) defined by a continuous fosse feature is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX048-150_1 to _5) taken in July 2006. The rath (WX048-144----) is c. 50m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 January, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Finn's Cottage, house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Occupied, 1990. "Restored", 2006-7, to accommodate proposed occasional use. Burnt, 2007. Undergoing "restoration", 2007. Replacement hipped gabled roof on collared timber construction with no finish on timber batons, cement rendered off-central chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and no rainwater goods on felt-covered exposed timber rafters. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window opening in bipartite arrangement (south) with square-headed flanking window opening (north), concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site.

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 Allenstown Little, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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 Allenstown Little with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Allenstown Little · Baile Alain Beag

Area

263,017 m² (26.3 ha, 64.99 acres)

Civil parish

St. Iberius, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Kilscoran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,073 people lived in 388 households in the Kilscoran electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Allenstown Big, Ballymacushin, Bennettstown, Glaglig, Lough

Placenames

Allenstown Little 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.