Churchtown

206 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Churchtown, from 1 m² to 148,414 m² (14.84 ha, 36.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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.

• R2Existing Residential & Infill (Existing residential)
  Wexford County Development Plan 2022-2028, Wexford · 182 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.2Industry (General industry)
  Wexford County Development Plan 2022-2028, Wexford · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.1Transport Infrastructure (Road)
  Wexford County Development Plan 2022-2028, Wexford · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M3Neighbourhood Centre (District, neighbourhood centre)
  Wexford County Development Plan 2022-2028, Wexford · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community & Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Wexford County Development Plan 2022-2028, Wexford · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space and Amenity (Open space, park)
  Wexford County Development Plan 2022-2028, Wexford · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential Phase 1 (New/proposed residential)
  Wexford County Development Plan 2022-2028, Wexford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential Phase 2 (New/proposed residential)
  Wexford County Development Plan 2022-2028, Wexford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 20 May 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission to extend the existing vehicle parking facility (Bonded Parking

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260637

• 8 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of 74 no. residential units within

  Permission, 74 homes · Wexford County Council, 20251281

• 10 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a warehousing and logistics storage building

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241099

• 30 Aug 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention of the following: - sunroom extension to the rear

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241049

• 2 Jul 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240767

• 23 Apr 2024Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A WAREHOUSING AND LOGISTICS STORAGE BUILDING AND

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20181162

• 19 Mar 2024Refused

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240294

• 28 Nov 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention for the retention of a weather shelter

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231422

• 16 Oct 2023N/a

  Permission for retention of a weather shelter structure to an

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231227

• 31 May 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for two number two-storey dwelling houses with a garden shed

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230617

• 7 Mar 2023Refused

  Permission for the following: to sub-divide the main house into 2 residential

  Permission, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230220

• 19 Dec 2022N/a

  Permission for the following : To sub-divide the main house into 2 residential

  Permission, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221687

• 17 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for proposed two storey extension to the rear of an existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211995

• 20 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for Retention of domestic garage to front and domestic shed to rear o

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211483

• 14 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for: Development of 12 no. two storey dwelling houses, comprising of

  Permission, 12 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210543

• 22 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention and completion of an extension to an existing school (a

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210408

• 24 Jul 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of an extension to an existing school compr

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200826

• 25 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to sub divide their property, Kilrane House, Churchtown into 2 sepera

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200378

• 13 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a single storey pitched roof extension to the

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200310

• 2 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)

  Retention of the following (1) extension to the front and side of dwelling house

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200250

• 6 Sept 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS TO PREMISES BY DEMOLISHING THE EXISTING

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191244

• 25 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING: 1. TO CONSTRUCT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING WITH

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190553

• 29 Mar 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT COMPRISING OF THE ERECTION OF TEN DWELLING HOUSES

  Permission, 10 homes · Wexford County Council, 20190411

• 8 Mar 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR (A) THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE (B) RETENTION

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190288

• 28 Feb 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS TO SITE BOUNDARIES AND ERECTION OF A NEW ENTRANCE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190251

The 25 most recent of 36 applications.

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 Churchtown.

Recorded monuments

• WX048-016001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape. The parish church of Kilrane is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 45m E-W; c. 35m N-S) defined by earthen banks at E and S, buildings at W and the Roman Catholic church of St. Rhanus in Kilrane at N. The church was dedicated to St. Rane, whose feastday is the 15th April (Hore 1925, 13-15). This is St. Ruadhán of Lorrha, Co. Tipperary (TN004-010006-). A Life of the saint may have been written c. AD 750-800, but there are indications of a 12th century date and an association with the houses of Augustinian canons in the Life. Ruadhán was related through the Uí Dhuach with the Eoghanacht kings of Munster. He was educated by St. Finnian of Clonard (ME047-007----) and thereafter proceeded to found churches throughout Ireland, although Kilrane is not one of them. His death is recorded in AD 584. (Ó Riain 2011, 541-4) According to the Visitation of Thomas Ram, the Protestant bishop of Ferns, in 1615 the vicar was Richard Turner, and the church and chancel were in repair (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 268). Only the W gable (incomplete L 4.9m; H 5.2m) of what must have been a large parish church survives. There are putlog holes in the surviving wall. The remains of a belfry are over the gable and there is a narrow window robbed of cut stone in an elliptical-headed embrasure. A photograph (Hore 1925, 14-5) shows a very tall complete belfry. 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: 6 January 2014

• WX048-016002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape. The parish church of Kilrane (WX048-016001-) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 45m E-W; c. 35m N-S) defined by earthen banks at E and S, buildings at W and the Roman Catholic church at N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 January, 2014

• WX048-154001 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape. Archaeological testing (05E1303) identified two ring-ditches that are probably prehistoric hut-sites together with numerous pits, gullies and post-holes. Geophysical survey (06R108) over a wider area confirmed the identifications, and other pit features were recorded but a third possible ring-ditch identified in excavation was not detected. This ring-ditch (ext. diam. c. 12m) is defined by a slot-trench (Wth 0.5-0.75m) and has an opening (Wth 1.8m) at ESE. Ring-ditch (WX048-154002-) is c. 75m to the ESE and ring-ditch (WX048-154003-) is c. 75m to the SE. The area remains undeveloped. (McLoughlin 2006, 5; 2008) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 January, 2014

• WX048-154002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape. Archaeological testing (05E1303) identified two ring-ditches that are probably prehistoric hut-sites, together with numerous pits, gullies and post-holes. Geophysical survey (06R108) over a wider area confirmed the identifications, and other pit features were recorded but a third possible ring-ditch identified in excavation was not detected. This ring-ditch (ext. diam. c. 12m) is defined by a slot-trench (Wth 0.4-0.9m) and has a narrow opening (Wth 0.25m) at SSE, but much of the perimeter NW-NE is not present. Ring-ditch (WX048-154001-) is c. 75m to the WNW and ring-ditch (WX048-154003-) is c. 35m to the SW. The area remains undeveloped. (McLoughlin 2006, 6-7; 2008) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 January, 2014

• WX048-154003 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape. Archaeological testing (05E1303) identified two ring-ditches that are probably prehistoric hut-sites, together with numerous pits, gullies and post-holes (McLoughlin 2006; 2008). Geophysical survey (06R108) over a wider area confirmed the identifications, and other pit features were recorded. A third possible ring-ditch identified in excavation was not detected but this ring-ditch (diam. c. 8m) was recorded through geophysics. It is evident as an arc of a slot-trench SW-NW-NE. Ring-ditch (WX048-154001-) is c. 75m to the NW and ring-ditch (WX048-154002-) is c. 35m to the NE. The area remains undeveloped. (Bonsal 2006, 7) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 January, 2014

Architectural heritage

• Saint Ruane's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1832-6, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay double-height single-cell with single-bay single-storey "chapels" centred on three-bay single-storey flat-roofed side aisle (north). Extended, 1918-9, producing present composition. "Restored", 1961. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables on cut-granite beaded kneelers including cut-granite coping to gable to entrance (east) front on cut-granite beaded kneelers with buttressed gabled bellcote to apex framing embossed cast-bronze bell ("1918"), and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered walls on rendered plinth. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-granite Y-mullions, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass roundels. Pointed-arch window opening to gable to entrance (east) front with cut-granite Y-mullion, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass roundels. Full-height interior open into roof with choir gallery (west) on a horse shoe-shaped plan on chamfered timber post, tessellated vinyl tiled central aisle between timber pews, Gothic-style timber stations between stained glass memorial windows (----), carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (west) reordered, ----, with replacement altar table below Classical-style reredos, and exposed collared "A-frame" timber roof construction with wind braced rafters to timber boarded ceiling. Set back from line of road in relandscaped grounds.

• Post box, 1941–1962 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron "wall box" post box, between 1941-62, with "P7T [Posts and Telegraphs]" monogram. Set in red brick header bond surround in limewashed coursed rubble stone wall.

• House, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak abutting single-bay single-storey gabled projecting bay. Undergoing "restoration", 2005. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat thatch roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) corrugated-iron roofs with exposed hazel lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered off-central chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Replacement cement rendered battered walls with cement rendered battered buttress along rear (south) elevation. Square-headed off-central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows with two-over-two timber sash windows to gables to side elevations having part exposed sash boxes. Road fronted with replacement cement rendered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping.

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 Churchtown, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Churchtown · Baile an Teampaill

Area

943,891 m² (94.39 ha, 233.24 acres)

Civil parish

Kilrane, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

St. Helen's, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,719 people lived in 1,005 households in the St. Helen's electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybing, Ballyconor Big, Ballyell Big, Ballygerry, Ballygillane Little, Harristown, Hayesland

Placenames

Churchtown 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.