Horetown North
Horetown North is a townland in the civil parish of Horetown, barony of Shelmaliere West, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile an Hóraigh Mór.
Parcel 382013
- Area
- 32,025 m² (3.2 ha, 7.91 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 243 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Horetown North
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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 this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 346.3 ha
- 856 acres
- Land parcels
- 110
- registered freehold, median 9,766 m² (0.98 ha, 2.41 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
110 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Horetown North, from 204 m² to 254,013 m² (25.4 ha, 62.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 45 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Horetown North 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a building to contain a home office and gym
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231453
10 Jan 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of window in end wall, window in front of house, door
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230012
27 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for (a) the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, (b)
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221439
29 Sept 2022N/a
Permission for (a) the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house (b)
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221289
13 Sept 2022N/a
Permission for (a) the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, (b)
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221225
8 Jul 2022Refused
Permission to remove an existing floor slab as part of planning application no 2
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220914
4 May 2022Refused
Permission for A) the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220581
19 May 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed construction of a fully serviced dwelling house, dom
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210759
2 Oct 2019Refused
PERMISSION TO AMEND THE LIFETIME OF THE APPROVED DEVELOPMENT (PLANNING REF. 2018
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191353
8 Feb 2019Granted (unconditional)
PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE (ERECTED TO FLOOR LEVEL UNDER PL.REG
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20140448
31 Jan 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20190117
31 Oct 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20181502
31 Jul 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF A SUNROOM AND CARPORT EXTENSIONS TO THE EXISTING DWE
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181037
4 Jul 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180907
19 Jun 2018Refused
THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF A TEN YEAR PERMISSION FOR A SOLAR FARM ON A SITE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180837
11 Jun 2018N/a
THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF A TEN YEAR PERMISSION FOR A SOLAR FARM ON A SITE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180787
24 Jan 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH ALL AS
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180074
23 Feb 2017Granted (conditional)
INDEFINITE RETENTION PERMISSION FOR EXISTING SINGLE STOREY GARAGE PARTIALLY MODI
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170202
3 Jan 2017Refused
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF A PARTIALLY COMPLETE EXISTING AGRICULTURAL ACCESS R
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170002
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Horetown North.
Recorded monuments
- WX035-084 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on the crest of the NW-facing slope of a small NE-SW spur. The cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by two ditch features (int. diam. c. 40m; ext. diam. c. 60m) and with an entrance gap through both features at NE is visible on aerial photographs (MM (49) 36-37; MM (54) 2). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 October, 2012
- WX041-057 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
Situated on a broad N-S ridge. The cropmark of a large enclosure (dims. c. 145m NE-SW; c. 115m NW-SE) with straight sides at SE and SW is faintly visible on aerial photographs (MM (8) 10-15; (57) 0, 1). This is either a field boundary or the perimeter of what might have been an enclosed wood. 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: 20 March, 2013
Architectural heritage
- Water pump, 1925–1950 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cast-iron "cow tail" waterpump, extant 1950. Now disused. Road fronted on grass verge with rough hewn granite trough.
- Goff's Bridge, bridge, 1700–1798 · Regional interest
Description
Three-arch road bridge over river, extant 1798. Part creeper- or ivy-covered walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers to upriver (north) elevation having moss-covered pyramidal capping with rubble stone coping to parapets. Series of three elliptical arches with lichen-spotted voussoirs. Sited spanning river with unkempt banks to river.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Horetown North, about 1 in 5 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 Horetown North.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Horetown North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Horetown North · Baile an Hóraigh Mór
- Area
- 3,463,373 m² (346.34 ha, 855.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Horetown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelmaliere West
- Electoral division
- Horetown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 678 people lived in 213 households in the Horetown electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cullenstown, Deerpark, Haresmead, Horetown South, Raheenduff, Slevoy, Tottenhamgreen
- Placenames
- Horetown North 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.