Ecclestown
Ecclestown is a townland in the civil parish of Tacumshin, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Eacail.
Parcel 404931
- Area
- 318,220 m² (31.82 ha, 78.63 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,174 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
- Ecclestown
Planning applications on this parcel
29 Jun 2026N/a
Permission for the erection of a fodder storage shed ancillary to the
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260848
19 Sept 2023N/a
Permission for the importation of 7500 tonnes of inert soil material
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231116
29 May 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for minor revisions to site boundaries to that granted under
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230596
26 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced two storey dwelling and all asso
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210612
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
- 32.2 ha
- 79 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 544 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ecclestown, from 170 m² to 318,220 m² (31.82 ha, 78.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ecclestown 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Jun 2026N/a
Permission for the erection of a fodder storage shed ancillary to the
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260848
19 Sept 2023N/a
Permission for the importation of 7500 tonnes of inert soil material
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231116
29 May 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for minor revisions to site boundaries to that granted under
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230596
26 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced two storey dwelling and all asso
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210612
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 Ecclestown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ecclestown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ecclestown.
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 Ecclestown, 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 the townland of Ecclestown.
- 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 Ecclestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ecclestown · Baile Eacail
- Area
- 321,510 m² (32.15 ha, 79.45 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
- Ballyhiho, Bunargate, Furziestown, Reedstown, Yoletown
- Placenames
- Ecclestown 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.