Rosslare Intake

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rosslare Intake, from 94,854 m² (9.49 ha, 23.44 acres) to 1,058,438 m² (105.84 ha, 261.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Rosslare Intake 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Rosslare Intake 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
• Special Protection Area: Wexford Harbour and Slobs SPA 004076
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Wexford Slobs And Harbour 000712

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rosslare Intake.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over canal, built 1854. Tuck pointed rock faced limestone ashlar walls between drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar battered piers with rock faced cut-limestone stringcourses supporting parapets having lichen-spotted rock faced hammered limestone battlemented coping. Single elliptical arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs centred on drag edged rock faced cut-limestone keystones. Sited spanning Drinagh Canal with seaweed covered battered embankments to canal.

• Engine house, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey pumping station engine house with half-attic, dated 1857, on a rectangular plan with single-bay full-height side elevations. Derelict, 1969. Modified, ----, to accommodate alternative use. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gables with roll moulded finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered red brick English Garden Wall bond walls on rendered plinth. Elliptical-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and drag edged dragged cut-limestone monolithic surrounds framing sixteen-over-twelve timber sash windows without horns (ground floor) or timber pivot windows (half-attic). Set on slobland.

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 Rosslare Intake, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3098 (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 Rosslare Intake with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Rosslare Intake · Ionghabháil Ros Láir

Area

4,366,724 m² (436.67 ha, 1,079.04 acres)

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Rosslare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,234 people lived in 807 households in the Rosslare electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 52% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bogganstown Lower, Drinagh Intake, Drinagh South, Grange Big, Island, Jacketstown, Lake Big, Woodtown

Placenames

Rosslare Intake 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.