Morrissysland

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Morrissysland, from 22 m² to 28,625 m² (2.86 ha, 7.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Morrissysland 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 Jul 2026N/a

  Permission for the construction of entrance walls, piers and associated site

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260932

• 12 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to demolish an existing single storey prefabricated classroom buildin

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211098

• 13 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of (a) a single storey extension to the school's

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200312

• 28 Feb 2020N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF (A) A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SCHOOLS

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200247

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 Morrissysland.

Recorded monuments

• WX029-013006 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Situated at the crest of an E-facing slope. The church of St. Stephen (WX029-013017-) and its graveyard (WX029-013069-) are within a subcircular ecclesiastical enclosure (diam. c. 160m E-W; c. 140m N-S) defined by stone walls and hedges, but burial has now expanded to fill the ecclesiastical enclosure. The site of St. Stephen’s Well (WX029-013070-) is inside the perimeter of the enclosure at SE. Archaeological testing (03E1390) c. 100m S of the enclosure produced some north Devon ware and some eroded late medieval wares in secondary contexts, but no features or structures were recorded (McLoughlin 2007a) and testing (04E0266) in Reddysland c. 50m W of the enclosure produce no related material (McLoughlin 2007b). 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: 2 August, 2012 Amended: 4 April, 2014

• WX029-013017 Church
  Description

  Depicted faintly as a rectangular feature (dims. c. 20m E-W; c. 6m N-S) described as the site of St. Stephen’s Chapel on the 1839 and 1940 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the crest of an E-facing slope. Hore (1900-11, vol. 1, 46) regards it as the hermitage of St. Abban, but this is unsupported. One length of wall oriented N S (L 5.8m; T 0.6m; H 0.5m) is all that remains, but a built-up grave-enclosure (ext. dims. 4.65m E-W 3.8m N-S) 14m to the W may also have been part of the church. There are two bullaun stones at this enclosure. A granite bullaun stone (dims. 0.7m x 0.6m; H 0.3m) with a single basin (diam. 0.33-0.35m; D 0.2m) is built into the top of the grave-enclosure wall, and another granite bullaun stone (dims. 0.61m x 0.44m; H 0.25m) with a single basin (diam. 33m; D 0.16m) is nearby. On the 1839 ed. of the map the church is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims. c. 105m E-W; 65-85m N-S), which itself is within a subcircular ecclesiastical enclosure (diam. c. 160m E-W; c. 140m N-S) defined by stone walls and hedges, but burial has now expanded to fill the ecclesiastical enclosure and there is no evidence of the old graveyard boundary. The site of St. Stephen’s Well is inside the perimeter of the enclosure at SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 August, 2012

• WX029-013018 Bullaun stone
  Description

  There are two bullaun stones at a grave enclosure on the site of St. Stephen’s church (WX029-013017-). A granite stone (dims. 0.7m x 0.6m; H 0.3m) with a single basin (diam. 0.33-0.35m; D 0.2m) is built into the top of the grave-enclosure wall, and another granite bullaun stone (WX029-013019-) is nearby. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 August, 2012

• WX029-013019 Bullaun stone
  Description

  There are two bullaun stones at a grave enclosure on the site of St. Stephen’s church (WX029-013017-). A bullaun stone (WX029-013018-) is built into the top of the grave-enclosure wall, and another granite stone (dims. 0.61m x 0.44m; H 0.25m) with a single basin ((diam. 33m; D 0.16m) is nearby. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 August, 2012

• WX029-013069 Graveyard
  Description

  On the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map the church of St. Stephen (WX029-013017-) is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims. c. 105m E-W; 65-85m N-S), which itself is within a subcircular ecclesiastical enclosure (WX029-013006-), but burial has now expanded to fill the ecclesiastical enclosure and there is no evidence of the original boundary of the graveyard. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 August, 2012

• WX029-013070 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Described as St. Stephen’s Well in gothic script on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and the name is mentioned by John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 341). St. Stephen was one of the first converts made by the disciples after Pentecost. Being charged with blasphemy he was tried by the Sanhedrim, whom he condemned for having crucified Christ. The Sanhedrin were so outraged that they dispensed with the usual forms of justice and stoned Stephen to death, making him the first Christian martyr (Butler 1883, 182). The well was being visited on the 26th December into the 1940s (OSFM). It is situated on an E-facing slope at the lowest point of the ecclesiastical enclosure (WX029-013006-) and just inside its perimeter at SE. There is no other information about this well, and no trace of it remains. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 November, 2012 Amended: 4 April, 2014

Architectural heritage

• Saint Stephen's Cemetery, graveyard/cemetery, 1776–2005 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cemetery with collection of lichen-spotted markers, ob. 1776-2005. Set in landscaped grounds.

• Saint Stephen's Cemetery, church/chapel, 1910–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Catholic mortuary chapel, dated 1914, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with crested terracotta ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables including concrete coping to gable to entrance (south) front with rendered, ruled and lined buttressed gabled bellcote to apex framing cast-iron bell, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rendered, ruled and lined stepped buttresses including rendered, ruled and lined clasping stepped buttresses to corners having lichen-spotted coping. Lancet window openings with concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (south) front with concrete step threshold, and concealed dressings having chamfered reveals framing timber boarded double doors. Full-height interior open into roof with flush beaded dado rail centred on timber panelled altar (north), and exposed collared timber roof construction with timber boarded ceiling. Set in landscaped grounds.

• Saint Stephen's Cemetery, monument, 1924–1939 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cut-limestone Celtic High Cross-style monument, extant 1939, on lichen-spotted poured concrete base. Set in landscaped grounds.

• Saint Stephen's Cemetery, gates/railings/walls, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gate screen, dated 1886, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of pointed segmental-headed openings centred on pointed-arch gateway. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Saint Stephen's Cemetery.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2521 (ZIP).

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

Name

Morrissysland · Fearann Uí Mhuiríosa

Area

108,454 m² (10.85 ha, 26.8 acres)

Civil parish

St. Mary's, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

New Ross Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

New Ross Rural electoral division: 4,164 people in 1,475 households; 52% of households own their home; 54% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawnmore, Irishtown, Redhouse

Placenames

Morrissysland 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.