Levitstown
Levitstown is a townland in the civil parish of Drinagh, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Luibhéid.
Parcel 384413
- Area
- 23,782 m² (2.38 ha, 5.88 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Levitstown
Planning applications on this parcel
26 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241174
4 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission of amendments to previously granted planning ref. 20210477 including
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211249
23 Jul 2021N/a
Permission for development consisting of amendments to previously granted Planni
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211187
1 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a new fully serviced two storey dwelling and garage, wit
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210477
18 Sept 2020Refused
Permission for development which will consist of permission to construct a new
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20201077
10 Sept 2020N/a
Permission to construct a new fully serviced two storey dwelling, with treatment
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201042
10 Sept 2020Refused
Permission to construct a new fully serviced dwelling, with treatment system and
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201041
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 36.9 ha
- 91 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 6,379 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Levitstown, from 291 m² to 89,939 m² (8.99 ha, 22.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Levitstown 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
26 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241174
4 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission of amendments to previously granted planning ref. 20210477 including
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211249
23 Jul 2021N/a
Permission for development consisting of amendments to previously granted Planni
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211187
1 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a new fully serviced two storey dwelling and garage, wit
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210477
18 Sept 2020Refused
Permission for development which will consist of permission to construct a new
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20201077
10 Sept 2020N/a
Permission to construct a new fully serviced two storey dwelling, with treatment
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201042
10 Sept 2020Refused
Permission to construct a new fully serviced dwelling, with treatment system and
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201041
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 Levitstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Levitstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Levitstown.
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 Levitstown, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3058 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Levitstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Levitstown · Baile Luibhéid
- Area
- 369,006 m² (36.9 ha, 91.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drinagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Drinagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,114 people lived in 404 households in the Drinagh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykilliane, Coolpeach, Pollbrean, Rowestown, Sheepwalk, Whitestown
- Placenames
- Levitstown 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.