Maudlintown

208 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maudlintown, from 2 m² to 70,253 m² (7.03 ha, 17.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Maudlintown 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.

• 24 Jun 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of converted attic space, rear conservatory a

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260826

• 3 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to install off-street parking to allow for electric

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251105

• 3 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)

  A proposed residential development forming Phase 2 of ‘Carraig Mhór’ consisting

  Permission, 5 homes · Wexford County Council, 20251102

• 7 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a vehicular entrance to dwelling house with as

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250972

• 1 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of 2 no. product silos, 3 no. water recovery

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250950

• 25 Mar 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of a pay-to-use portable waste compactor

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250329

• 11 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of an extenson to the side of an existing dwelling

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250159

• 29 Nov 2024Refused

  Permission for a proposed residential development forming Phase 2

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241484

• 8 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the demolition of an extension to the side of an existing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241240

• 5 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for change of use of former licenced premises with residential

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20241074

• 23 Aug 2024N/a

  Permission for change of use of former licenced premises with residential

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20241011

• 6 Aug 2024N/a

  Permission for change of use of former licenced premises with residential

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240940

• 12 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention of a pay-to-use portable waste compactor

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240671

• 9 Apr 2024N/a

  Permission for change of use of former licensed premises with residential

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240383

• 22 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for alterations to a residential development, 'Carraig Mhor', granted

  Permission, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240312

• 12 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a first floor extension over existing single

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240268

• 14 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for alterations to a residential development 'Carraig Mhór'

  Retention, 10 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231511

• 3 Nov 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a single storey building extension

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231330

• 4 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of 2 number Wind Break arrangements affording

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221471

• 12 Oct 2022N/a

  Permission for the construction of 2 number Wind Break arrangements affording

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221345

• 3 Aug 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a residential development to be completed over 3 phases

  Permission, 28 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221053

• 20 Jul 2022N/a

  Permission for a residential development to be completed over 3 phases consistin

  Permission, 28 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220991

• 9 May 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for erecting 2,649.31 m2 or 416.50 kWp of photovoltaic panels on the

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220606

• 12 Apr 2022N/a

  Permission for erecting 2649.31m2 or 416.50 kWp of photovoltaic panels on the ex

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220473

• 8 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development which will consist of proposed extension

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220460

The 25 most recent of 68 applications.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
• Special Protection Area: Wexford Harbour and Slobs SPA 004076
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Wexford Slobs And Harbour 000712

Recorded monuments

• WX037-040 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on the 1839 and 1941 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic script as St. Mary Magdalene’s Well on both, with the additional information ‘Site of’ on the later map. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 the a pattern was held at the well on July 22nd until c. 1790 (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 376). It is situated on a slight NE-facing slope and is located in the garden of a house, but it is not visible at ground level. Maudlintown church (WX037-041001-) is c. 150m to the SW. St. Mary Magdalene, the penitent, is recorded in the Gospels. Her repentance at the feet of Christ led to her becoming an ardent disciple. She was with Mary at the Crucifixion, and was the first to encounter the risen Christ. (Butler, 1883, 102) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 December, 2012 Amended: 14 January, 2014

• WX037-042001 Church
  Description

  The parish church of Maudlintown is situated on a low-lying landscape within a rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 50-55m E-W; c. 35m N-S) defined by masonry walls. It was attached to the Leper Hospital (WX037-041----) and was granted to the Knights Hospitaller of St John at Kilmainham, Co. Dublin in the 15th century. Portion of the W gable (L 7m; max. H 2.5m) with a break at the centre survives with part of the adjacent S wall. The lower end of a medieval graveslab (Wth 0.41-0.51m; T 0.13m; H 0.67m) with a raised fleur-de-lis terminal is used as a grave-marker at the N edge of the church. The site of St Mary Magdalene's Well (WX037-040----), at which patterns were celebrated on the 22nd of July until c. 1790 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 376) is c. 150m to the NE. Archaeological testing (13E0258) by Mary Henry immediately S of the graveyard produced no related material (excavations.ie 2013:173). 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: 14 December, 2012 Amended: 24 November 2020

• WX037-042002 Graveyard
  Description

  The parish church of Maudlintown (WX037-041001-) is situated on a low-lying landscape within a rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 50-55m E-W; c. 35m N-S) defined by masonry walls. The graveslab (WX037-042003-) is in the vicinity of the N side of the church, and the site of St Mary Magdalene's Well (WX037-040----) is c. 150m to the NE. Archaeological testing (13E0258) by Mary Henry immediately S of the graveyard produced no related material (excavations.ie 2013:173). Archaeological monitoring (21E0023) by David Murphy of a cable trench on the other side of the road from the graveyard at W produced no related material (excavations.ie 2021:002). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 December, 2012 Amended: 23 December 2021

• WX037-042003 Graveslab
  Description

  The lower end of a medieval graveslab (Wth 0.41-0.51m; T 0.13m; H 0.67m) with a raised fleur- de-lis terminal is used as grave-marker in the graveyard (WX037-042002-), in the vicinity of the N side of the church (WX037-032001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 December, 2012

Architectural heritage

• W.B. Nunn, malt house, 1842–1882 · Regional interest
  Description

  Archival Description [Demolished 2014]: Detached fifteen-bay three-storey malthouse, extant 1882, on a rectangular plan; fifteen-bay three-storey rear (south) elevation. Closed, 1992. Damaged, 2006. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on timber construction with clay ridge tiles, lichen-spotted coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with lichen-spotted tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners centred on cast-iron "Pattress" tie plates; roughcast surface finish to rear (south) elevation. Camber- or segmental-headed door openings with lichen-spotted tooled cut-limestone monolithic surrounds framing remains of timber fittings. Square-headed window openings in camber- or segmental-headed recesses with red brick block-and-start surrounds framing louvered timber fittings. Square-headed window openings to rear (south) elevation in camber- or segmental-headed recesses with concealed dressings including red brick header bond voussoirs framing louvered timber fittings. Set in unkempt grounds.

• W.B. Nunn, malt house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Archival Description [Demolished 2014]: Detached three-bay three-storey malthouse, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan; two-bay full-height side elevations. Now disused. Hipped gabled slate roof on timber construction with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on red brick header bond stepped eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with rough hewn rubble stone (ground floor) or red brick (upper floors) flush quoins to corners centred on cast-iron tie bars. Square-headed window openings in camber- or segmental-headed recesses with red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber boarded fittings behind timber bars. Set in unkempt grounds.

• House, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built 1938, on a rectangular plan; two-bay two-storey rear (west) elevation. Pitched profiled concrete tile roof with concrete ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack (north) having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber box eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined wall (ground floor) with rendered "bas-relief" stringcourse; gritdashed roughcast surface finish (first floor). Square-headed door opening (south) with step threshold, and moulded surround on padstones framing replacement glazed uPVC panelled door. Square-headed window opening (first floor) with concrete sill, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash window. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (north) with concrete sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• , 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced single-bay two-storey house, c.1900. One of a group of twelve. Pitched (shared) artificial slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered and red brick Running bond (shared) chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves over red brick construction having iron ties. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered strips to end. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, rendered surrounds, and two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with rendered surround, and replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1975. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• , 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced single-bay two-storey house, c.1900. One of a group of twelve. Pitched (shared) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond and rendered (shared) chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves over red brick construction having iron ties. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered strips to end. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, rendered surrounds, and two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with rendered surround, and replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1975. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• , 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced single-bay two-storey house, c.1900. Reroofed. One of a group of twelve. Pitched (shared) roof with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, rendered and red brick Running bond (shared) chimney stacks, rendered coping to party wall, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves over red brick construction having iron ties. Rendered walls with rendered strip to end. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1975. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• Post box, 1881–1901 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron "wall box" post box, between 1881-1901, with "VR [Victoria Regina]" royal cipher. Set in roughcast boundary wall.

• House, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan originally terraced. One of a pair. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof with ridge tiles, lichen-spotted concrete or rendered coping to gable (south) with rendered battered chimney stack to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposes sash boxes. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1906–1941 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1941, on a rectangular plan. Reroofed, ----. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, slightly sproketed eaves, and uPVC rainwater goods on box eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and moulded rendered surround centred on diamond pointed rusticated keystone framing glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled reveals or shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds.

• Saint Magdalene's, house, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built 1848; dated 1848, on a U-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; two-bay full-height side elevations. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1920. Renovated, 2000, to accommodate alternative use. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge having cut-granite capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves. Replacement gritdashed roughcast walls on moulded cushion course on roughcast base. Square-headed central door opening approached by flight of three cut-granite steps between cast-iron railings with concealed dressings having bull nose-detailed reveals framing replacement glazed uPVC double doors. Door opening into house with timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows having margins. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds.

• Graveyard/cemetery, 1700–1925 · National interest
  Description

  Graveyard with collection of overgrown markers, ----. Set in overgrown grounds with part creeper- or ivy-covered boundary wall to perimeter having lichen-spotted coping.

• Rockland House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1790–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Archival Description [Demolished 2018]: Section of part creeper- or ivy-covered estate wall, extant 1840, with rubble stone soldier course coping. Road fronted at perimeter of grounds of Rockland House.

• Rockland House, country house, 1790–1795 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey double-pile country house, dated 1793, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) three-storey lean-to central return (east). Occupied, 1901; 1911. Vacated, 1933. Sold, 1936. Resold, 1959. Now disused. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on lean-to slate roof (east), clay ridge tiles, coping to gables on moulded kneelers with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, central rooflight to rear (east) elevation, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls. Square-headed central door opening with threshold, and rendered surround framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows having overlights. Square-headed window openings (top floor) with cut-granite sills, and rendered surrounds framing four-over-two timber sash windows. Segmental-headed central door opening to rear (east) elevation approached by flight of twelve cast-iron steps between cast-iron railings, rendered surround framing glazed timber door. Segmental-headed window opening (half-landing) with cut-granite sill, and rendered surround framing two-over-two timber sash window having overlight. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and rendered surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows having overlights. Square-headed window openings (top floor) with cut-granite sills, and rendered surrounds framing four-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in shared grounds.

• Rockland Cottage, house, 1842–1868 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house with dormer attic, extant 1868, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (three-bay deep) full-height central return (west). Occupied, 1901. Vacant, 1911. Sold, 1937. For sale, 1994. Resold, 2000. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on gablet to window opening to dormer attic, pressed iron ridge with finials to apexes, paired rendered central chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, timber bargeboards to gables on "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed timber purlins, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on overhanging exposed timber rafters retaining some cast-iron ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite threshold, doorcase with Ionic columns on plinths supporting "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice on rosette-detailed fluted frieze, and moulded rendered surround framing glazed timber panelled double doors having fanlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows having overlights. Square-headed window openings (west) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two (ground floor) or four-over-four (first floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds on an elevated site.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3056 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Maudlintown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Maudlintown · Baile Mhaidilín

Area

471,311 m² (47.13 ha, 116.46 acres)

Civil parish

Maudlintown, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Wexford Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Wexford Rural electoral division: 14,194 people in 5,189 households; 64% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cromwellsfort, Mulgannon, Rocksborough, Townparks

Placenames

Maudlintown 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.