Muchtown

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muchtown, from 7,968 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres) to 151,542 m² (15.15 ha, 37.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Muchtown 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.

• 19 Aug 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191168

• 15 Jul 2016Refused

  THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY CONSISTING OF UP TO 88600M2 OF SOL

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160811

• 12 Jul 2016N/a

  THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY CONSISTING OF UP TO 88,600 M2 OF S

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160793

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 Muchtown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Muchtown.

Architectural heritage

• Muchtown Bridge, bridge, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch road bridge over stream, extant 1840. Part creeper- or ivy-covered walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers to upriver (north) elevation on mass concrete battered plinths with rubble stone soldier course coping to parapets. Series of there segmental arches with lichen-spotted voussoirs. Sited spanning stream with unkempt banks to stream.

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 Muchtown, 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, partly inferred.

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

Name

Muchtown · An Baile Mór

Area

308,286 m² (30.83 ha, 76.18 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

Kilcowan Lower, Kilcowan Upper, Ralphtown, Rathangan, Robinstown, Shanoo

Placenames

Muchtown 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.