Castletown

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castletown, from 1,973 m² to 138,486 m² (13.85 ha, 34.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Castletown 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.

• 15 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention of alterations to on-site wastewater treatment

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221513

• 8 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission 20220481 for

  Permission consequent, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221483

• 4 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions to an

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221472

• 12 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)

  Outline permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Outline permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220481

• 4 Mar 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the following: a) Demolition of existing calf shed, b) Decommissi

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220276

• 9 Jul 2021Refused

  Permission for the following: Construction of an agricultural building to includ

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211089

• 20 Nov 2020Refused

  Permission for 1) Alterations to an existing granny flat granted under

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201385

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lady's Island Lake SAC 000704
• Special Protection Area: Lady's Island Lake SPA 004009
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lady's Island Lake 000704

Recorded monuments

• WX053-027 Castle - tower house
  Description

  References to the Codd family in Wexford date from early in the 13th century, although Osbert Codd is thought to have landed with FitzStephen at Bannow in 1169 (Cavanagh 1911, 247). However, there is no corroboration of this (Hore 1921, 81). Carne was held by Geoffrey de Karrn in 1247 from the Valence estate and Osbert and Geoffrey Coud held Cairne in 1324. About 1425 Rochfort held Carnecorna, all of which are the manor of Carne (Brooks 1950, 127- 9). The original fief of the Codd family is Ballywich (Ballyhire WX048-034----) and Rathaspick (WX042-008----), so Carne, or Maliordocke as it is sometimes called (Cavanagh 1911, 253), may be a late acquisition, perhaps by marriage (Brooks 1950, 128). John Codd of Carne is recorded 1338-41 (Cavanagh 1911, 249). While Ballywich seems to have been lost to the Lamports, the other two are mentioned together frequently in the 14th century (ibid. 250). The pedigree of the Codd family of Carne is well established from the late 15th century, and they retained their land through nine generations until 1712 when Nicholas Codd sold the estate, amounting to 950 statute acres, to Col. Thomas Palliser (ibid. 255). Martin Codd, who succeeded his father, Nicholas, in 1609 was the first to adopt the Protestant religion (ibid. 252). His son, Nicholas, had to flee to Wales in 1641 when the estate was virtually confiscated by the Confederate Catholics (Hore 1920, 103-05), but it was restored under the Commonwealth. According to the Book of Survey and Distribution (1660s) Nicholas Codd, who is described as an English Protestant, had 381 acres in Carne and 80 in Rathaspick in 1640 (Simington 1953, 299, 305-06). Colonel Palliser was descended from a Yorkshire family and was a nephew of William Palliser, Archbishop of Cashel 1693-1727. Thomas served in the Williamite army in Ireland into the early years of the 18th century. He was rewarded by the Duke of Ormonde with land at Great Island, Co. Wexford, where he built a country house called Portobello at Campile. He purchased the Castletown land in 1712, and he lived until 1756 (Cavenagh 1912, 44). Castletown passed to his grandson, Philip, who died in 1784, and then to Thomas’ nephew, Admiral Hugh Palliser, who died in 1796 after an adverturous life at sea. Castletown House is no longer extant, but from a photograph (ibid. Fig. 2) it was a five-bay, two storey and attic structure that incorporated the castle in its W wing, and was similar in design to Castlepaliser House that was described as ‘newly finished’ in 1780 (Cavenagh 1911, 248), so it may have been built by Philip. Only the ground floor and the first floor of the tower house survive (ext. dims 9.45m E-W; 8.65m N-S) with good quoins, and a base batter on all sides except the N. The original entrance is a lintelled doorway of dressed granite (Wth 0.9m; H 2.05m), with an internal hanging eye towards the S end of the E wall, although there is a considerable build-up of ground (H c. 1m) around the outside of the castle. The doorway is protected by a murder-hole in the lobby (L 2.22m N-S) that was operated from the second floor, over the vault. From the lobby a lintelled doorway (Wth 1.12m; H 1.87m) with a projecting drawbar stone leads to the ground floor (int. dims 6.25m E-W; 4.6m N-S) which has two embrasures on the S, W and N walls, and one, now destroyed and blocked, on the E wall. The W embrasures in the N and S walls were adapted as doorways to the Palliser house. The E embrasure on the S wall has a double-spayed loop, but the others are simple lights. From the entrance lobby a mural stairs rises southwards in the E wall and turns onto the S wall where a lintelled doorway (Wth 0.7m; H 1.84m), now blocked, leads through a passage (L 1.5m) to the E end of the first floor under the E-W barrel-vault. A slit window (Wth 0.2m; H 0.8m) with chamfered edges in the W wall is the only surviving original feature as the vault has been plastered and a recess on the E wall is repaired in brick. The mural stairs continue to the destroyed second floor over the vault. The church (WX053-028----) is c. 165m to the SE. See the attached section of the Down Survey parish map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725) 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: 21 March, 2014

• WX053-028 Chapel
  Description

  This is an estate chapel of Castletown tower house (WX053-027----) c. 165m to the NW. Synnott writing c. 1680 lists a chapel at Castletown (Hore 1862, 69; 1921, 60) and the site is described as a 'Chapel in ruins' on the1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This is a rectangular structure (ext. dims. 8.5m E-W; 4.5m N-S) defined by the base of the walls (max. H c. 1.2m). There are no distinguishing features, and there is no evidence of an enclosure or burial. 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: 21 March, 2014

• WX053-029 Windmill
  Description

  A windmill is marked on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map of Forth at Castletown, and on the Down Survey parish map of Carne at Castletown, which was owned by Nicholas Codd in 1640 (Simington 1953, 306). A mill at Mogerdocke (Castletown) is listed in the sale of the Codd property to Col. Thomas Palliser of Great Island in 1712 (Cavanagh 1911, 255), and a windmill stump is marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map situated on a broad, low hill. It is not extant. See the attached section of the Down Survey parish map (N at top) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 21 March, 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Castletown, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Castletown · Baile an Chaisleáin

Area

483,169 m² (48.32 ha, 119.39 acres)

Civil parish

Carn, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Lady's Island, the unit of the census

Census 2022

625 people lived in 249 households in the Lady's Island electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clougheast, Coolcam, Loginsherd, Moortown, Raheenmoor, Ring Green, Ring Little, Shilbrack, Shilmore, Summerstown, Threeacres

Placenames

Castletown 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.