Petitstown

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Petitstown, from 100 m² to 59,675 m² (5.97 ha, 14.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Petitstown 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.

• 3 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and all assoc

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211412

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 Petitstown.

Recorded monuments

• WX047-016001 Church
  Description

  Located in a slight hollow in a gently undulating landscape. The church is depicted as a small rectangular structure described as St. Catherine’s Chapel in gothic lettering within a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 40m NE-SW; c. 30m N-W) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This is a possible Catholic church of the Penal era as it is not listed by Synnott writing c. 1680 about neglected churches in Forth (Hore 1862, 66-9; Hore 1921, 57-61). The church is sited within a raised D-shaped grass and scrub-covered area (dims. 43m E-W; 32m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1.8-2m) and a slight outer fosse (Wth of base 2-2.4m; D 0.6m at W to 1.6m at E) that was a rath which is truncated at S by the E-W Rosslare to Waterford railway line. The church is a rectangular structure (ext. dims 6.2m E-W; 4.9m N-S) defined by low earthen banks (max. H 0.5m), with outer fosses or ditches (Wth 2.1m; max. D 0.4m). There is no evidence of burial. St Catherine's Well (WX047-017----) is c. 220m to the SSE. 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: 17 October, 2013

• WX047-016002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located in a slight hollow in a gently undulating landscape. The possible Catholic church (WX047-016001-) is within a raised D-shaped grass and scrub-covered area (dims. 43m E-W; 32m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1.8-2m) and a slight outer fosse (Wth of base 2-2.4m; D 0.6m at W to 1.6m at E) that was a rath which is truncated at S by the E-W Rosslare to Waterford railway line. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 October, 2013

• WX047-017 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape and just 8m NW of the NE-SW R739 Wexford town to Kilmore Quay road. It is marked on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering on both as St. Catherine’s Well. It is a rectangular feature (dims 1.15m x 1.1m; D 1.45m) defined by a concrete wall open on one side, and has water (D 0.7m) with an overflow pipe. A whitethorn tree stands over it, but there is no evidence of veneration. St. Catherine’s chapel (WX047-016001-) is c. 220m to the NNW, The saint is probably St. Catherine of Alexandria. She was a 4th century savant who converted some pagan philosophers. When persecuted on a rack the wheels miraculously fell off the machine – hence she is always represented with a wheel. Eventually she was burned by her persecutors. Her remains were discovered in Egypt in the 8th century and miraculously translated to Mt. Sinai where her monastery continues to this day. Some of her relics came to Europe in the 11th century resulting in the popularisation of her cult. In 1969 she was removed from the Calendar by the Roman Catholic Church, but she was restored in 2002. (Butler, Rev. A 1883, 169) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 October, 2013 Amended: 14 January, 2014

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having chamfered capping, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on limewashed rendered eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed rendered battered walls. Segmental-headed central door opening over overgrown threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with lichen-spotted sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in unkempt 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

At the centre of the townland of Petitstown, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Petitstown · Baile an Pheitidigh

Area

292,647 m² (29.26 ha, 72.31 acres)

Civil parish

Mayglass, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Mayglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

600 people lived in 195 households in the Mayglass electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycogly, Ballynaas Great, Ballynaas Little, Braestown, Cooloughter, Crosstown, Mountpleasant or Tagunnan, Walshestown

Placenames

Petitstown 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.