Rochestown
Rochestown is a townland in the civil parish of Drinagh, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile an Róistigh.
Parcel 2756226
- Area
- 174 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 2,530 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Rochestown
Planning applications on this parcel
18 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to (i) construct a canopy over the existing goods-out platform
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241581
18 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for extension of the floor area of the mezzanine (661m2)
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231530
17 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed single storey extension to existing Canteen, permiss
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211464
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3057 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 36.2 ha
- 90 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 1,506 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 37
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rochestown, from 53 m² to 128,528 m² (12.85 ha, 31.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rochestown 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
2 Jun 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of 2 no. existing external signs with wall-mounted dow
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260711
8 May 2026N/a
Permission for the provision of a service and storage yard auxiliary to an
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260580
11 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to apply for a 10-year permission for the proposed development
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251639
15 Oct 2025Refused
Permission for the provision of a service and storage yard auxiliary to
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251311
3 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of existing ground floor extension to existing 3-store
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251104
14 Feb 2025Refused
Permission for the provision of a service and storage yard auxiliary to an
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250181
18 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to (i) construct a canopy over the existing goods-out platform
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241581
11 Nov 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed development works consisting of a single storey
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241394
13 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a two storey extension to the
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241115
18 Jul 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for a) the construction of a fully serviced single storey
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240860
27 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the indefinite retention of the additional car parking area
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240751
22 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)
A 10 year permission for (a) the construction of two concrete bunded
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240321
19 Mar 2024Refused
Permission for the construction of two galvanised steel structure carports
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240292
18 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for extension of the floor area of the mezzanine (661m2)
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231530
28 Sept 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect 44,172.66 M2 of photovoltaic panels on a ground mounted
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231164
7 Sept 2023N/a
Permission to erect 44,172.66 m2 of photovoltaic panels on a ground mounted
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231072
14 Jul 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for a proposed development consisting of alterations and extension to
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230818
13 Jul 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a single storey extension to the existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230805
22 Jun 2023N/a
Permission for the construction of a single storey extension to the existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230709
17 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission sought for the indefinite retention for alterations to previously
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221526
12 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed extension of their existing car park area to include
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220470
17 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed single storey extension to existing Canteen, permiss
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211464
9 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for alterations to an existing commercial unit consisting the install
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211436
20 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of a 2 storey office and warehouse building (1338m2) as
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210573
28 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and gar
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210100
The 25 most recent of 37 applications.
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 Rochestown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rochestown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rochestown.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Rochestown, 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3057 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rochestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Rochestown · Baile an Róistigh
- Area
- 362,375 m² (36.24 ha, 89.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drinagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Drinagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,114 people lived in 404 households in the Drinagh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Blackhorse, Coolballow, Drinagh North, Kerloge, Roughmead, Sinnottstown, Strandfield
- Placenames
- Rochestown 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.