Richfield (Reclaimed)

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Richfield (Reclaimed), from 12,936 m² (1.29 ha, 3.2 acres) to 39,573 m² (3.96 ha, 9.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Richfield (Reclaimed) 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

• 3 Apr 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS TO A PROTECTED STRUCTURE (AS LISTED ON

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170396

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Richfield (Reclaimed).

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1842–1901 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, occupied 1901, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Refenestrated, ----. Occupied, 1990. Now disused. Chicken wire-covered hipped oat thatch roof with paired exposed hazel stretchers to degraded ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered off-central dwarf chimney stack having cement rendered capping, and remains of exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door opening in elliptical-headed recess with concealed dressings including timber lintel framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Set back from road in unkempt grounds.

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 Richfield (Reclaimed), 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_2921 (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 Richfield (Reclaimed) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Richfield (Reclaimed) · Baile Mhic Iair (Míntírithe)

Area

626,366 m² (62.64 ha, 154.78 acres)

Civil parish

Killag, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Killag, the unit of the census

Census 2022

508 people lived in 176 households in the Killag electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Hooks, Inish and Ballyteige Slob, Killag, Newtown, Pembrokestown, Richfield, Riesk, Yoletown

Placenames

Richfield (Reclaimed) 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.