Harpoonstown

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Harpoonstown, from 222 m² to 160,256 m² (16.03 ha, 39.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Harpoonstown 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.

• 20 Dec 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced new dwelling house

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231557

• 14 Nov 2023N/a

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

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231368

• 18 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced new dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220973

• 7 Feb 2022Refused

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced new dwelling house.

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220145

• 26 Jan 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for alterations to granted planning (ref. no. 20210620) to

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220087

• 20 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced new dwelling home

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211476

• 26 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development consisting of the erection of a fully serviced new dw

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210620

• 27 Feb 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR (A) THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A BUILDING COMPRISING AN ENCLOSED ST

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170223

• 5 Sept 2016Granted (conditional)

  (A) PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING STABLE UNITS (B) PERMISSIO

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160985

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 Harpoonstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Harpoonstown.

Architectural heritage

• Harpoonstown House, farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1840, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay (north) or two-bay (south) two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 2004. Refenestrated, ----. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, paired cement rendered central chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Hipped segmental-headed central door opening in segmental-headed recess with timber mullions on cut-granite padstones supporting timber transom, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled double doors having two-over-two timber sash sidelights below fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase on a dog leg plan with turned timber "spindle" balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in volute, and carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing 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.

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 Harpoonstown, 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Harpoonstown.

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 Harpoonstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Harpoonstown · Baile Harpúin

Area

739,143 m² (73.91 ha, 182.65 acres)

Civil parish

Mulrankin, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Bridgetown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

963 people lived in 323 households in the Bridgetown electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycappoge, Common, Gardamus Great, Lambertstown, Mulrankin, Woodtown

Placenames

Harpoonstown 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.