Woodtown

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodtown, from 147 m² to 368,886 m² (36.89 ha, 91.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Woodtown 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.

• 9 Jun 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING AND ALL ASSOCIATED

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170728

• 6 Feb 2017Refused

  PERMISSION FOR A GRAIN STORE, CONCRETE WORKS AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170107

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 Woodtown.

Recorded monuments

• WX042-021002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Located in the valley of a small N-S stream, which is c. 8m to the W. This oval granite stone (dims 1.3m x 0.4-0.55m) is embedded in the ground and has a single basin (diam. 0.42m; D 0.16m) at its wider end. The tower of the fortified parish church of Kilmannan (WX042-021001-) is c. 60m to the NNE, on the other side of an ENE-WSW public road. The site of St Mannan's Well (WX042-022----) is c. 280m to the SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 May, 2013

• WX042-022 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as St. Mannan’s Well in gothic lettering on both. The name is a corruption of Moininne, one of the most famous female saints in early Christian Ireland. She was connected with the Ui Eachach Comha of Co. Down or, in another version, with the Cenel Eoghan of Tyrone. She was reputedly baptised by St. Patrick, and founded a nunnery at Faughart, Co. Louth (LH004-097001-), the reputed birthplace of St. Bridget (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 384). St. Moininne also visited St. Iobhar at Beggerin (WX038-004001-), but St. Bridget’s gift of a vessel miraculously travelled to Killevy on Slieve Gullion, Co. Armagh, where Moininne founded a convent (Ó Riain 2011, 495-7) that later became a convent of Augustinian nuns and which survived until the Suppression (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 321; Neill 2009, 484-94). According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 the pattern was held on the 6th of July until c. 1810 (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 75), and this is the feastday of St. Moininne. The well is situated in a slight NW-SE valley, overgrown in mixed woodland and scrub, with the stream c. 50m to the NE. It was not identified, but it is locally described as a natural spring that was filled-in c. 1970. Kilmannan church (WX042-021001-) is c. 320m to the NNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 May, 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Woodtown, 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

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

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

Name

Woodtown · Baile na Coille

Area

388,543 m² (38.85 ha, 96.01 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmannan, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Bridgetown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

963 people lived in 323 households in the Bridgetown electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bargy Commons, Glebe, Glendrislagh, Gortins Little, Kilmannan, Kilmannan Little, Knockbrack, Mountaingate, Newcastle, Plot

Placenames

Woodtown 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.