Martinstown

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Martinstown, from 355 m² to 138,439 m² (13.84 ha, 34.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Martinstown 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.

• 14 May 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180638

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 Martinstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Martinstown.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1800–1814 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1814, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay two-storey on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting glazed porch to ground floor. Occupied, 1901. Sold, 1908. Occupied, 1911. Extended, ----, producing present composition. Refenestrated, ----. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves. Rendered walls bellcast over rendered plinth with rusticated rendered piers to corners. Hipped segmental-headed central door opening into farmhouse with reeded timber mullions supporting reeded timber transom, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights below fanlight. Square-headed flanking window openings originally in tripartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows having two-over-two sidelights. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing three-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled reveals or shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds with repointed granite ashlar piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting arrow head-detailed wrought iron double gates.

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 Martinstown, 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, low (inferred).

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3100 (ZIP).

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

Name

Martinstown · Baile Mháirtín

Area

194,353 m² (19.44 ha, 48.03 acres)

Civil parish

Ballybrennan, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Rosslare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,234 people lived in 807 households in the Rosslare electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 52% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybeg, Ballykereen, Ballyrane, Horetown, Ratholm

Placenames

Martinstown 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.