Castleland

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castleland, from 88 m² to 282,047 m² (28.2 ha, 69.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Castleland 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.

• 23 Feb 2024Refused

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCI

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20191162

• 1 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a cubicle house with slatted underground effluent storage ta

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211532

• 4 Nov 2016Refused

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIA

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161227

• 19 Oct 2016N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161154

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 Castleland.

Recorded monuments

• WX003-024 House - 17th century
  Description

  Laurence Esmonde was a scion of the Esmonde family of Johnstown castle (WX042-017----). Unlike the rest of the family he was a loyal Protestant and became one of the two Commissioner for the Plantation of Wexford in 1611, and an MP for the county in 1613 (McHugh 2001). He was rewarded with grants of about 5500 acres centred on Lemmeneagh that became Limbrick or Limerick where he was required to build a castle. It had been built by 1621 and became the centre of the manor which had the right to hold courts and weekly markets with fairs once a year. A settlement (WX003-052----) developed along the road running E towards the church (WX003-026001-). A survey of 1621 describes Limerick Castle as two houses built back-to-back, each of two-and-a-half-storeys and each facing a court or bawn with flanking towers at the corners. There was a gatehouse to the smaller court (Loeber and Stouthamer-Loeber 1987, 191–2). Sir Laurence was also the Commander of Duncannon Fort (WX044-015001-) from c. 1603 until his death in 1645 and he spent much time there. At the outbreak of the Rebellion in 1641 he was able to provide 140 men for the defence of Limerick castle, most of whom would be his tenants fleeing to Limerick for safety. His own son, Sir Thomas Esmonde, was amongst the rebels and Sir Thomas held the castle from 1641 until he burnt it at the approach of Oliver Cromwell in 1649. According to the Civil Survey (1654) Sir Thomas owned all the land in the parish of Kilkeavan in 1641 but the castle is described as ruined in 1654 (Simington 1953, 14-15). The castle is located on a SE-facing slope. The S flanking tower of the bawn survives (H c. 4m) with two gun loops in the circular chamber (int. diam. 3.8m) at the ground floor, and there are two windows in the rectangular chamber (int. dims 3.6m N-S; 3.4m E-W) at the first floor. The E side of the tower does not survive, and the floor would have been of wood. 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: 14 February 2012 Amended: 15 May, 2014, 17 December 2020

• WX003-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle S-facing slope in pasture with a stream flowing NE-SW c. 20m to the E. Identified on Bing Images (c. 2013), it is also visible on Google Earth (28/06/2018; 14/07/2018). It consists of a large oval enclosure (dims. c. 57m NE-SW; c. 48m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank with stones protruding from it (pers. comm. Ivor Kenny). The NE quadrant was surveyed with remote sensing techniques (12R0118) which showed that there were two fosse features and is probably a rath (Harte 2013). It is also visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018). See the attached view from Google Earth Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 29 April 2014 Amended: 17 December 2020; 23 July 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Castleland, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3216 (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.

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

Name

Castleland · Fearann an Chaisleáin

Area

538,339 m² (53.83 ha, 133.03 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcavan, and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Limerick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,056 people lived in 341 households in the Limerick electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynestragh Demesne, Barracurragh, Laraheen, Laraheenhill, Limerick, Linnanagh

Placenames

Castleland 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.