Tracystown West

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tracystown West, from 3,169 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres) to 180,860 m² (18.09 ha, 44.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Tracystown West 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.

• 5 Nov 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR REMOVAL OF DISCHARGE OUTFALL PIPE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNI

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191491

• 25 Oct 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR REMOVAL OF DISCHARGE OUTFALL PIPE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191442

• 15 Apr 2019Refused

  PERMISSION FOR REMOVALOF DISCHARGE OUTFALL PIPE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLAN

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190494

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 Tracystown West.

Recorded monuments

• WX041-002001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  References date only from the Civil Survey (1654-6) when William Hore is recorded as the owner of a ruined castle and 360 acres in Trassestowne as well as 300 acres in Ardenagh within Taghmon parish (Simington 1953, 84). It is located on a low rise and at the head of a slight SE-NW valley. The rectangular tower house (ext. dims. 7.85m E-W; 6.9m N-S) survives only to the top of the vault, and the NW angle is destroyed. The walls are battered and have granite quoins. A round headed entrance in undressed stone (Wth 0.96m; H 2.6m) is located towards the W end of the S wall. It is protected by a murder hole, and leads through a lobby into the ground floor (int. dims 4.8m E-W; 4.15m N-S), which originally had four embrasures with slit windows, of which only two survive. Mural stairs rise in the S and W walls to a destroyed doorway of the first floor under the E-W vault. This floor was supported on seven joists apparently set directly into the N and S walls. There area slight indications of earthworks to the S and E of the structure, perhaps the remains of a bawn (dims c. 50m N-S; c. 50m E-W). 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: 21 March, 2013

• WX041-002002 Bawn
  Description

  The tower house (WX041-002001-) is located on a low rise and at the head of a slight SE-NW valley. There area slight indications of earthworks to the S and E of the structure, perhaps the remains of a rectangular bawn (dims c. 50m N-S; c. 50m E-W). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 March, 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Tracystown West · Baile Uí Threasaigh Thiar

Area

1,632,777 m² (163.28 ha, 403.47 acres)

Civil parish

Taghmon, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere West

Electoral division

Horetown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Horetown electoral division: 678 people in 213 households; 82% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardenagh Little, Cloonerane, Coolateggart, Coolcull (Moylers), Hillburn, Horetown South, Raheen, Slevoy, Tottenhamgreen, Upton

Placenames

Tracystown West 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.