Russellstown

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Russellstown, from 448 m² to 119,180 m² (11.92 ha, 29.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Russellstown 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.

• 12 Nov 2025Refused

  Permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling, ancillary

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251464

• 11 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231488

• 25 Mar 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, detached garage

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220388

• 14 Feb 2022N/a

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, detached garage

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220188

• 17 Sept 2018Refused

  PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, WITH AN ATTACHED SINGLE-STO

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181258

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 Russellstown.

Recorded monuments

• WX046-062 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a fairly level landscape. This is an oval grass and scrub-covered area (dims. c. 50m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by a slight scarp NW-N and E-SE with a bank incorporated into a curved field bank (C 38m) at S. There is no visible fosse or entrance. 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: 20August, 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Russellstown, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2885 (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 Russellstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Russellstown · Baile an Ruiséalaigh

Area

726,451 m² (72.65 ha, 179.51 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcowan, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Kilcowan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

525 people lived in 204 households in the Kilcowan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolycall, Croase, Knocktown, Robinstown, Scar, Shanoo

Placenames

Russellstown 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.