Hewitsland

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hewitsland, from 232 m² to 53,447 m² (5.34 ha, 13.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Hewitsland 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.

• 18 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251494

• 25 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251215

• 15 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of 50 no.

  Permission, 50 homes · Wexford County Council, 20251010

• 1 Nov 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development which will consist of a single storey drive-thru

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241357

• 6 Aug 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for (1) the construction of 3 no. warehouses providing a total

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240934

• 8 May 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development which will consist of:

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230486

• 2 May 2023N/a

  Permission for: 1) Construction of 3 no. warehouses providing a total floor

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230464

• 23 Mar 2023N/a

  Permission for 1) Construction of 3 no. warehouses providing a total floor space

  Permission, 4 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230296

• 6 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the installation of solar panels to the roof of premises

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220907

• 11 May 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the installation of a wash down area for boats together with silt

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210724

• 5 May 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for change of use of existing offices to a wholesale plumbing and hea

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210678

• 4 May 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF USE OF FORMER CHILDREN'S PLAY CENTRE TO INDUSTRIAL DRY

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170549

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 Hewitsland.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Hewitsland.

Architectural heritage

• Roseville, farm house, 1910–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1912, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey lower central return (south). Refenestrated, ----. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on hipped slate roof (south), perforated crested clay ridge tiles, coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls; slate hung surface finish to side (west) elevation. Round- or segmental-headed central door opening approached by two steps, rendered surround having concave reveals framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings on label stops framing replacement aluminium casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2521 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Hewitsland with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Hewitsland · Fearann Hiúéid

Area

212,857 m² (21.29 ha, 52.6 acres)

Civil parish

St. Mary's, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

New Ross Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

New Ross Rural electoral division: 4,164 people in 1,475 households; 52% of households own their home; 54% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Arnestown, Bennettsknock, Butlersland, Chambersland, Portersland, Stephensland

Placenames

Hewitsland 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.