Orristown

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Orristown, from 64 m² to 174,109 m² (17.41 ha, 43.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Orristown 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.

• 7 May 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for erection of a general purpose shed- 471.5 sq. metres (for

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250522

• 22 Aug 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention for alterations and additions to existing labourers

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241002

• 15 May 2024N/a

  Permission for erection of a cubicle shed (107 cubicles) as an extension

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240541

• 8 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention of a velux roof window, feature granite porch

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231479

• 15 Sept 2023N/a

  Permission for erection of an extension to existing cubicle shed (107 cubicles)

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231107

• 18 May 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230539

• 8 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a single storey dwelling and all associated site

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220463

• 21 Mar 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the closing up of an existing entrance & for the construction of

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220359

• 26 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, installation of

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211371

• 31 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a 4.5m wide x 2.6m high x 14.2m long precast

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210465

• 10 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200291

• 12 Feb 2018Granted (unconditional)

  PROPOSED ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED AN

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20130071

• 9 Nov 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A CUBICLE HOUSE (89 CUBICLES) WITH SLATTED

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161250

• 22 Feb 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND AS

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160166

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: Wexford Slobs And Harbour 000712

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Orristown.

Architectural heritage

• Milestone/milepost, 1906–1922 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding inscribed cut-granite milestone, extant 1922, on a triangular plan. Road fronted on grass verge.

• Farm house, 1842–1901 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey part double-pile farmhouse, occupied 1901, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting glazed porch. Leased, 1913-21. Now disused. Pitched part double-pile (M-profile) slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having chamfered stringcourses below capping, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with finials to apexes, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door opening into farmhouse with monolithic surround framing timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window openings in camber-headed recesses (ground floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having overlights. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase on a dog leg plan with remains of turned timber balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in turned timber newels, carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors centred on carved timber surround to window opening framing timber panelled shutters, and moulded plasterwork roundel to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set in unkempt grounds with rendered panelled piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

• House, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three- or five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. "Improved", ----, producing present composition. Reroofed, ----. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat thatch roof centred on gablets to window openings to dormer attic with exposed hazel lattice stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered central chimney stack having red brick corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gablets with timber finials to apexes, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Gritdashed roughcast battered wall to front (west) elevation on rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" strips to corners; cement rendered surface finish (remainder). Hipped square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed uPVC door having sidelights. Square-headed flanking window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from line of road on a slightly 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

At the centre of the townland of Orristown, 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_3060 (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 Orristown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Orristown · Baile Órthaí

Area

952,867 m² (95.29 ha, 235.46 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacree, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Killinick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

927 people lived in 339 households in the Killinick electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Assaly Little, Ballyfinoge Little, Drinagh Intake, Kilmacree, Rathmacknee Little, Stephenstown, Talbotstown, Walshestown

Placenames

Orristown 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.