Harristown
Harristown is a townland in the civil parish of Kilrane, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Anraí.
Parcel 403554
- Area
- 477 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 39 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Harristown
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 41.8 ha
- 103 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 1,971 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential & Infill
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Harristown, from 477 m² to 370,284 m² (37.03 ha, 91.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential & Infill (Existing residential)
Wexford County Development Plan 2022-2028, Wexford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community & Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Wexford County Development Plan 2022-2028, Wexford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential Phase 2 (New/proposed residential)
Wexford County Development Plan 2022-2028, Wexford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential Phase 1 (New/proposed residential)
Wexford County Development Plan 2022-2028, Wexford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 May 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions to an
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260610
8 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of 74 no. residential units within
Permission, 74 homes · Wexford County Council, 20251281
17 Nov 2023Granted (conditional)
Premission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231379
27 May 2022Refused
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house,
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220708
17 May 2021N/a
permission for the retention of alterations to dwelling house and also the reten
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210743
18 Feb 2020Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTING OF RETENT
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200197
18 Nov 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION OF AN EXTENSION TOT HE SIDE AND REAR OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND FOR RETEN
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191536
10 Sept 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED MODERNISATION OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTI
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181235
5 Jan 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180010
8 Nov 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED MODERNISATION OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTI
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171439
4 Mar 2016Granted (unconditional)
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20110584
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Harristown.
Recorded monuments
- WX048-129 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (45) 6-8; ASIAP (6) 9-13). It is also visible on digital aerial photographs (WX048-129_1 to _5) taken in July 2006 and is connected with the cropmarks of some curvilinear field drains. 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: 7 January 2014 Amended: 1 May, 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Harristown.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Harristown, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Harristown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Harristown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Harristown · Baile Anraí
- Area
- 418,240 m² (41.82 ha, 103.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilrane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- St. Helen's, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,719 people lived in 1,005 households in the St. Helen's electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyaddragh, Ballyconor Big, Ballycronigan, Ballygillane Big, Ballygillane Little, Ballyknockan, Ballywitch, Churchtown, Riscrann, Tenacre
- Placenames
- Harristown 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.