Churchtown

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Churchtown, from 189 m² to 74,952 m² (7.5 ha, 18.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Churchtown 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.

• 5 Mar 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for stone outhouses restoration, remodelling and conversion into

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260284

• 28 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of modifications and extension to

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250929

• 29 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development, application seeks a fifteen year planning permission

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211222

• 5 May 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced two storey dwelling house and do

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210680

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: Carnsore Point SAC 002269
• Special Protection Area: Lady's Island Lake SPA 004009
• Special Protection Area: Seas off Wexford cSPA 004237

Recorded monuments

• WX053-033001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in a low-lying, level landscape. The parish church of Carne, which Synnott writing c. 1680 tells us was dedicated to St. Fintan (Munnu) (Hore 1921, 60; Dalton 1921, 29), is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 70m WNW-ESE; c. 30m NNE-SSW) defined by masonry walls at W and N and by earthen banks at E and S. According to the visitation of Bishop Thomas Ram, the Protestant bishop of Ferns, in 1615 Apollo Waller was the vicar and the church and chancel were in repair (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 267). The present abandoned Church of Ireland church (ext. dims 14.6m E-W; 6.05m N-S), which continued in use until the 1950s, has original material in the double bellcote on the stepped W gable and the reused porch door frame of coarse granite, which is a pointed doorway (Wth 0.96m; H 1.96m). There is a blocked arcade in the S wall of two pointed arches (Wth 2.12; 2.24; H 2.6m) that are supported on a central square pillar (H 1.5m) with chamfered edges and a square capital that may have led to a S aisle. There is no evidence of a N aisle. Archaeological testing (03E1392) immediately N of the graveyard produced no archaeological material (Fallon 2006), and testing (05E0549) immediately S of it had a similar result (O'Connor 2008). The abive 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: 21 March, 2014

• WX053-033002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in a low-lying, level landscape. The parish church of Carne (WX053-033001-) is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 70m WNW-ESE; c. 30m NNE-SSW) defined by masonry walls at W and N and by earthen banks at E and S. Archaeological testing (03E1392) immediately N of the graveyard produced no archaeological material (Fallon 2006), and testing (05E0549) immediately S of it had a similar result (O'Connor 2008). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 March, 2014

• WX053-078 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Located on the tip of the low-lying Crossfintan Point. Three shallow, interlocking pits (L 3m; Wth 0.5-1m), lined with stones and filled with burnt clay and charcoal were discovered by Prof. F. Mitchell in 1983 (pers. comm.). One sample produced a radiocarbon determination of 1750 ± 80 BP. 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: 21 March, 2014

Architectural heritage

• Parle's Forge, house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. "Improved", pre-1903, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Refenestrated, ----. Chicken wire-covered pitched and hipped or hipped gabled oat thatch roof, pressed iron ridge above exposed steel stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having stepped capping, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed off-central door opening into house. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road on a corner site with limewashed cylindrical piers to perimeter having shallow conical capping supporting flat iron gate.

• House, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. "Restored", 2002. Replacement hipped water reed thatch roof with chicken wire-covered exposed hazel lattice stretchers to degraded raised ridge having exposed scallops, rendered chimney stacks having chamfered stringcourses below capping, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Replacement rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door opening in elliptical-headed recess with threshold, timber doorcase with panelled pilasters supporting inscribed "fanlight", and rendered block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings in square-headed shutter recesses with concrete or rendered sills, and rendered monolithic surrounds framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows without horns replacing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with limewashed cylindrical piers to perimeter having shallow conical capping supporting replacement timber gates.

• Holy Trinity Church (Carn), church/chapel, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Church of Ireland church, rebuilt 1825, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (west) front. Closed, ----. Now in ruins. Roof now missing, creeper- or ivy-covered coping to gables including creeper- or ivy-covered coping to gable to entrance (west) front with gabled double bellcote to apex, and no rainwater goods surviving on rendered eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered battered walls with lichen-spotted rendered slate hung battered buttresses to entrance (west) front. Pointed-arch or pointed segmental-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing mild steel fittings. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (west) front with cut-granite threshold, and cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing mild steel fittings. Interior in ruins. Set 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 Churchtown, about 1 in 5 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

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

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

Name

Churchtown · Baile an Teampaill

Area

634,263 m² (63.43 ha, 156.73 acres)

Civil parish

Carn, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Lady's Island, the unit of the census

Census 2022

625 people lived in 249 households in the Lady's Island electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballask, Carna, Clougheast, Nethertown, Shilmore, Tedwards

Placenames

Churchtown 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.