Williamstown

790 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Williamstown, from 3 m² to 523,366 m² (52.34 ha, 129.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 67 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2RS (Existing residential)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 646 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3HA (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 49 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS (Open space, park)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 33 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1RE (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 24 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5TM (Tourism and related)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C7CD (Other commerce/industrial/enterprise uses)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1R1 (New/proposed residential)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M5GB (Other mix of uses)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Williamstown in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Williamstown.

Recorded monuments

• WA017-121 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  First identified by Linda Hegarty of Headland Archaeology in centre-line testing (03E1174) for the Waterford city outer ring road (Hegarty 2006a), and subsequently excavated (03E1755) by Caitríona Gleeson of Headland Archaeology (Gleeson 2006). This is a circular area (int. diam. c. 30m) defined by a deep V-shaped fosse (Wth of top 2m; D 2m), which may have had an outer bank as the fill appeared to have been tipped in from the exterior. The perimeter was truncated by a NW-SE field bank at W, and there was a causeway entrance (Wth 3m) at SE. Charcoal from the base of the fosse at W produced a C14 determination of cal. AD 977-1037. In the interior were the truncated remains of post-holes and pits. Artefacts recovered include prehistoric pottery, iron artefacts and iron slag, and medieval pottery. Evidence of prehistoric activity in the form of post-holes and a possible cremation pit (WA017-121001-) were recovered c. 20m W of the enclosure. (Gleeson 2006; 2010) Gleeson, C. (2006) Williamstown. Prehistoric. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 516-17, No. 1944. Wordwell. Bray. Gleeson, C. (2010) A ringfort and nearby area of prehistoric activity, Williamstown, Co. Waterford: report on an archaeological excavation undertaken prior to the construction of the R710 Waterford outer relief road. Decies, No. 66, 1-34. Hegarty, L. (2006a) Waterford outer ring road: pits, stake-holes, ditches. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 509, No. 1921. Wordwell. Bray. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 31 December 2010

• WA017-121001 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  First identified by Linda Hegarty of Headland Archaeology in centre-line testing (03E1174) for the Waterford city outer ring road (Hegarty 2006, P 509, 1921), and subsequently excavated (031755) by Caitríona Gleeson of Headland Archaeology. Evidence of prehistoric activity in the form of post-holes and a possible cremation pit were recovered c. 20m W of the fosse of rath (WA017-121----). A C14 determination of 1929-1741 cal. BC, suggesting an Early Bronze Age date was recovered from a post-hole, but pottery from the same context is Mid - Late Bronze Age in character. The cremation pit (dims. 0.44 x 0.38m; D 0.24m) with human bone produced a date of 1873-1637 cal. BC, within the Early Bronze Age (Gleeson 2006; 2010, 8-10). Gleeson, C. (2006) Williamstown. Prehistoric. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 516-17, No. 1944. Wordwell. Bray. Gleeson, C. (2010) A ringfort and nearby area of prehistoric activity, Williamstown, Co. Waterford: report on an archaeological excavation undertaken prior to the construction of the R710 Waterford outer relief road. Decies, No. 66, 1-34. Hegarty, L. (2006a) Waterford outer ring road: pits, stake-holes, ditches. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 509, No. 1921. Wordwell. Bray. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• WA017-145 Burnt pit
  Description

  In flat pasture falling gently to the SE. A ringfort (WA017-121----) was uncovered in an excavation c. 150m to the SW and prehistoric activity (WA017-121001-), in the form of post-holes and a possible cremation pit, were recovered c. 20m W of the fosse of rath. In 2019 testing (19E0143) was carried out in advance of a proposed housing development (Sutton 2019, unpublished report). Excavation revealed a sub-circular shallow pit (diam. 0.7m; D 0.14m) filled by a dark grey silty clay containing frequent charcoal flecks, moderate large charcoal pieces and large flat, cracked stones (av. Size 0.2m x 0.2m x 0.4m) (ibid. 4). A worked flint pebble scrapper was found in the pit (ibid.). An area 5m x 5m was exposed around the pit but no other archaeological features were identified (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 February 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Williamstown, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

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

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 Williamstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Williamstown · Baile Liam

Area

2,222,537 m² (222.25 ha, 549.2 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill, and its townlands

Electoral division

Grange South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,211 people lived in 1,143 households in the Grange South electoral division. 53% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballytruckle, Bishopscourt, Carrigavoe, Farranshoneen, Grange Lower, Grange Upper, Grantstown, Kilcohan, Kill St. Lawrence, Killure

Placenames

Williamstown 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.