Lingstown Upper

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Lingstown Upper, from 298,439 m² (29.84 ha, 73.75 acres) to 298,439 m² (29.84 ha, 73.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Lingstown Upper 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 Lingstown Upper 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: Tacumshin Lake SAC 000709
• Special Protection Area: Tacumshin Lake SPA 004092
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tacumshin Lake 000709

Recorded monuments

• WX047-061 Castle - tower house
  Description

  References to Lingstown date from the 16th century. Sir James Synnott, the brother of Sir Richard Synnott of Ballybrennan castle (WX048-001001-) is thought to have married a Lambert of Lingstown. Edmond Synnott owned 80 acres at Lingstown when he died in 1630 (Jeffrey 1979, 26), but according to the Book of Survey and Distribution John Devereux owned 27 acres at Lingstown and Alexander Rossiter owned 73 there in 1640 (Simington 1953, 303). The castle is marked on the Down Survey map barony map (1656-8). It was situated on rock outcrop overlooking a N arm of Tacumshin Lough, but it collapsed in 1985 (Murphy 1984-6). It was described by John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 as ’26 feet by 23 feet by 44 feet high (c. 7.9m x 7m; H c. 13.4m’ (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 285). It can be described from photographs, sketches and local accounts (SMR file) as having had entrance with a pointed arch of dressed stone, protected by a possible portcullis, machicolation and a murder hole, towards the W end of the N wall. There was a stairs rising in the N wall to the first floor under the E-W vault, and on to the second floor. A spiral stairs at the NE angle gave access to the third and fourth floors and the battlements. There were gables on the N and S walls with an entrance to the attic at N. A chimney stack rose over the stepped battlements on the N side and there was a lookout platform over the stairs housing at NE. The rubble from the tower house is now on the site. 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: 16 October, 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Lingstown Upper, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Lingstown Upper · Baile Ling Uachtarach

Area

297,987 m² (29.8 ha, 73.63 acres)

Civil parish

Ishartmon, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Tomhaggard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

550 people lived in 205 households in the Tomhaggard electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygullick, Crossscales, Grange, Tomhaggard

Placenames

Lingstown Upper 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.