Yoletown

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Yoletown, from 701 m² to 169,512 m² (16.95 ha, 41.89 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.

• 30 Nov 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE EXISTING EXTENSION AS CONSTRUCTED TO REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE A

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171564

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 Yoletown.

Recorded monuments

• WX048-116001 Field system
  Description

  Situated on a level, low-lying landscape. The Cropmarks of fragmented field banks, some forming strips (dims. c. 100m x 20m) and covering c. 18 acres (7 ha), are visible on aerial photographs (MM (4) 29-32; (10) (27 9). The ring-ditches (WX048-116002-; WX048-116006-) and three enclosures (WX048-116003-; WX048-116004-; WX048-116005-) are within the complex. 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: 9 January 2014

• WX048-116002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Located on a level, low-lying landscape. The cropmark of a small enclosure (diam. c. 20m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (4) 29-32; (10) 27-9). It is within the field system site (WX048-116001-), but does not appear to be incorporated in it. 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: 9 January, 2014

• WX048-116003 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a level, low-lying landscape. The cropmark of an oval enclosure (dims c. 30m E-W; c. 22m N-S) with a central feature (diam. c. 10m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (4) 29-32; (10) 27-9). It is within the field system (WX048-116001-) but does not appear to be incorporated in it. 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: 9 January 2014

• WX048-116004 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a level, low-lying landscape. The cropmark of a subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 58m WNW-ESE; c. 35m NNE-SSW) defined by a single feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (4) 29-32; (10) 27-9). It is within the field system (WX048-116001-) but does not appear to be incorporated in it. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 January, 2014

• WX048-116005 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a level, low-lying landscape. The cropmark of a subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 40m NW-SE; c. 35m NE-SW) defined by a single feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (4) 29-32; (10) 27-9). It is within the field system (WX048-116001-) but does not appear to be incorporated in it. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 January, 2014

• WX048-116006 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Located on a level, low-lying landscape. The faint cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 15m x c. 12m) defined by a single feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (4) 29-32; (10) 27-9). It has an opening at NE and elements of the field system (WX048-116001-) seem to connect to it. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 9 January, 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3135 (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

344,098 m² (34.41 ha, 85.03 acres)

Civil parish

Ballybrennan, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Rosslare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,234 people lived in 807 households in the Rosslare electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 52% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrennan Big, Ballygarvey, Blunsheens, Brittas, Bush, Cottage

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.