Rowestown

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rowestown, from 610 m² to 130,696 m² (13.07 ha, 32.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Rowestown 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.

• 23 Jul 2021N/a

  Permission for development consisting of amendments to previously granted Planni

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211187

• 15 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF AN EXISTING STABLES AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170317

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 Rowestown.

Recorded monuments

• WX042-080 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape. The faint cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (28) 23-6; ASIAP, WX 102, 31-3). It is also visible on digital aerial photographs (WX042-080_1 to _3) taken in 2006. 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: 28 May, 2013

• WX042-085 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) is faintly visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (8) 5-7). It is cut by an E-W field bank towards the perimeter at N and there is an entrance gap at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 May, 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rowestown, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3058 (ZIP).

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

Name

Rowestown · Baile an Róigh

Area

507,174 m² (50.72 ha, 125.33 acres)

Civil parish

Drinagh, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Drinagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,114 people lived in 404 households in the Drinagh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackhorse, Bogganstown Upper, Coolpeach, Jacketstown, Kellystown, Levitstown, Pollbrean, Whitestown Lower or Hermitage

Placenames

Rowestown 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.