Horetown

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Horetown, from 423 m² to 83,750 m² (8.38 ha, 20.7 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 Horetown 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 Jan 2025Granted (conditional)

  1. Permission for retention of extension (conversion of attic space) and

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250046

• 10 Jul 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for proposed erection of anagricultural gate for site access

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240820

• 2 Nov 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced detached dwelling house

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231327

• 24 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permisison for the retention of three extensions to existing dwelling

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231276

• 22 Jun 2023Refused

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

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230705

• 1 Mar 2023Refused

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

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230197

• 13 Sept 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of the following: (a) a 1.8m high concrete

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221224

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 Horetown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Horetown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Horetown, 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_3101 (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.

• Horetown, Foulksmills13 sales
• Horetown, Killinick5 sales

Name

Horetown · Baile an Hóraigh

Area

342,437 m² (34.24 ha, 84.62 acres)

Civil parish

Killinick, 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

Ballybeg, Ballykereen, Ballyminaun Big, Ballyminaun Little, Coolkeeran, Knocknell, Martinstown

Placenames

Horetown 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.