Muckstown

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muckstown, from 638 m² to 172,935 m² (17.29 ha, 42.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Muckstown 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 May 2016Granted (conditional)

  ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE AND DOMESTIC OU

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160467

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 Muckstown.

Recorded monuments

• WX048-118 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 3-6m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (5) 25-6; (44) 1-3, 12). It is slightly truncated by a N-S farm road at W. 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. Compilded by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 8 January, 2014

• WX048-149 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 30m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX048-149_1 to _6) taken in July 2006. The cropmarks of regular field drains are connected to it, and it may be a small field. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 8 January, 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Muckstown, 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 Muckstown.

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

Name

Muckstown · Baile Mhoic

Area

188,045 m² (18.8 ha, 46.47 acres)

Civil parish

Tacumshin, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Tacumshin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

507 people lived in 204 households in the Tacumshin electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bennettstown, Coldblow, Cumshinstown, Hardyglass, Heaths

Placenames

Muckstown 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.