St. Margaret's

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in St. Margaret's, from 1,458 m² to 675,958 m² (67.6 ha, 167.03 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.

No zone of a development plan covers St. Margaret's 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.

• 20 Jan 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a new farmyard complex to incorporate cow shed,

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230049

• 23 Dec 2022N/a

  Permission for the erection of a new slatted shed, weanling shed, bale shed and

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221732

• 6 May 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for: 1. Retention of alterations and additions to dwelling house from

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220596

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: Carnsore Point SAC 002269
• Special Protection Area: Seas off Wexford cSPA 004237

Recorded monuments

• WX053-021 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a broad low hill. The cropmark of a rectangular feature (dims c. 25m E-W; c. 15m N-S) is visible on vertical aerial photographs (GSIAP: T 63/2) from 1973. It is now preserved as an open area in a caravan park. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 25 March, 2014

• WX053-022001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a gentle E-facing slope. The parish church of St Margaret's is within a subrectangular graveyard (max. dims c. 45m NNW-SSE; c. 30m ENE-WSW) with very few headstones that is defined by masonry walls (H 1.5-2.3m) and accessed by a road just to the W. At the Suppression in 1541 it was a possession of St. Selskar’s (WX037-032009-) in Wexford (White 1943, 369), and it was thought to be dedicated to St. Margaret of Scotland (Culleton 1968), but since the pattern is not know this cannot be confirmed. The church consists of a nave (ext. dims. 8.1m E-W; 7.2m N-S; int. dims 6.32m E-W; 4.74m E-W) and chancel (ext. dims 8.2m E-W; 5.45m N-S; int. dims 6.6m E-W; 3.75m N-S) with the E gable almost complete and the ivy-covered walls decreasing in height towards the W (H 0.5m). There is an entrance (Wth 0.8m) on the S side of the nave, which is possibly not original. A pointed chancel arch (Wth 1.63m; H 2.1m) leads to the chancel which has a pointed E window (Wth c. 1m; H 1.95m) with the remains of tracery and an external hood moulding that has a carved head as a stop. Three areas of collapse in the side walls of the chancel may have been windows. Although the nave and chancel are of equal length internally, outer courses of the nave side walls overlap those of chancel (L 1.5m at S; 2.1m at N) preserving more normal proportions on the outside. The nave appears to be attached to the chancel, and therefore later than it. St Margaret's Well (WX053-077----) is c. 300m to the SSE. 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: 25 March, 2014

• WX053-022002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a gentle E-facing slope. The parish church of St Margaret's (WX053-022001-) is within a subrectangular graveyard (max. dims c. 45m NNW-SSE; c. 30m ENE-WSW) with very few headstones that is defined by masonry walls (H 1.5-2.3m) and accessed by a road just to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 25 March, 2014

• WX053-077 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked only on the 1925 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as St. Margaret’s Well. It is built into the W side of a field bank on the SW side of a NW-SE road, with the seashore c. 180m to the SE. A circular stone-lined well (diam. 0.9-0.95m) is open (Wth 0.55m; H 1.18m) to the W and capped with a lintel (dims 1.05m x 0.95m). An overflow channel (Wth 0.45m) runs off to the SE where there is a pond c. 20m distant. There is no evidence of, or any record of, veneration. St. Margaret’s church (WX053-022001-) is c. 300m to the NNW. Compliled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 March, 2014

• WX053-082 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape. This is a granite stone with a D-shaped cross-section and no discernible orientation (dims 0.6m x 0.65m; H 1.1m). 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: 27 March, 2014

• WX053-087 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a level landscape. The faint cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a wide fosse feature (Wth c. 5m) ENE-S-WNW is faintly visible on aerial photographs (MM (44) 29-35). An outer, narrower feature might be visible NW-E-S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 March, 2014

Architectural heritage

• Saint Margaret's House, farmyard complex, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, extant 1840, including: Walled garden on a rectangular plan with part creeper- or ivy-covered boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown rounded coping; red brick Running bond surface finish to courtyard elevations. Now disused. Set in unkempt grounds originally shared with Saint Margaret's House with granite ashlar piers to perimeter having stringcourses below capping supporting replacement 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 St. Margaret's, 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of St. Margaret's.

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 St. Margaret's with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

St. Margaret's · Teampall Mhaighréide

Area

695,459 m² (69.55 ha, 171.85 acres)

Civil parish

St. Margarets (Forth By), and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Lady's Island, the unit of the census

Census 2022

625 people lived in 249 households in the Lady's Island electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballare, Ballyknockan, Ballytra, Cousinstown, Drinagh, Summertown

Placenames

St. Margaret's 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.