Piercetown

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Piercetown, from 40 m² to 191,411 m² (19.14 ha, 47.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Piercetown 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Piercetown 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 Piercetown.

Recorded monuments

• WX042-018 Mound
  Description

  Marked as small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) only on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and located towards the bottom of a slight NE-facing slope, with a NW-SE stream c. 50m to the NE. This is a small, overgrown mound (dims. 26m NE-SW; 11m NW-SE: H 0.4m) at the edge of a marshy area and it may be the spoil from the removal of an earthwork enclosure. 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: 28 May, 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Piercetown, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Piercetown · Baile an Phiarsaigh

Area

443,049 m² (44.3 ha, 109.48 acres)

Civil parish

Rathmacknee, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Drinagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,114 people lived in 404 households in the Drinagh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Fortyacres, Hodgesmill, Johnstown, Knock, Knockangall, Knockruth, Pollsallagh

Placenames

Piercetown 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.