Yoletown

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Yoletown, from 3,490 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres) to 131,791 m² (13.18 ha, 32.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Yoletown 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.

• 12 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development which will consist of: the extension of the

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241547

• 25 Nov 2024N/a

  Permission for development which will consist of: the extension

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241453

• 11 Sept 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a ten year planning permission for a renewable energy

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231080

• 18 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced detached dwelling house and

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20201579

• 30 Oct 2020N/a

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced detached dwelling house

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20201263

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyteige Burrow 000696

Recorded monuments

• WX047-154 Field system
  Description

  Located on the flood-plain of the canalised NE-SW Bridgetown river, which is c. 140m to the SE. The cropmarks of some field drains covering an area of c. 3 ha are visible on aerial photographs (WX047-154_1 to _4). They appear to make narrow rectangular fields (dims c. 30-40m x c. 100m), and are probably 18th century in date. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 October, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over canal, completed 1853. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed rock faced limestone ashlar walls between dragged edged rock faced limestone ashlar piers with lichen-spotted rock faced cut-limestone stringcourses supporting benchmark-inscribed parapets having lichen-spotted rock faced cut-limestone coping. Single elliptical arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar crow stepped voussoirs centred on drag edged rock faced cut-limestone keystones. Sited spanning Bridgetown Canal with gorse-covered embankments to canal.

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 Yoletown, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2920 (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 Yoletown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Yoletown · An Seanbhaile

Area

386,190 m² (38.62 ha, 95.43 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

Hooks, Inish and Ballyteige Slob, Kilcowan Upper, Newhouse, Richfield (Reclaimed)

Placenames

Yoletown 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.