Yoletown

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Yoletown, from 450 m² to 115,532 m² (11.55 ha, 28.55 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 Yoletown 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.

• 29 Jun 2026N/a

  Permission for the erection of a fodder storage shed ancillary to the

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260848

• 29 May 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for minor revisions to site boundaries to that granted under

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230596

• 16 Jun 2016Granted (conditional)

  CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSO

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160678

• 18 May 2016N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSO

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20160525

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 Yoletown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Yoletown.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor. Sold, 1886. "Improved", pre-1903, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Reroofed, 2001. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat thatch roof with exposed hazel lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Part creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed lime rendered battered walls. Square-headed off-central door opening into farmhouse with concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings with limewashed sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes centred on six-over-six timber sash windows (half-dormer attic). Set in landscaped grounds with limewashed cylindrical piers to perimeter having shallow domed capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron "farm gate".

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 Yoletown, 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 Yoletown.

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

Name

Yoletown · An Seanbhaile

Area

490,147 m² (49.01 ha, 121.12 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, Ballytory Lower, Ballytory Upper, Ecclestown, Faythe, Rathshillane, Reedstown

Placenames

Yoletown 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.