Churchtown

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Churchtown, from 873 m² to 176,158 m² (17.62 ha, 43.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Churchtown 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.

• 27 May 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of a partially completed self-contained residential

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250612

• 13 Dec 2023Refused

  Permission for the retention of a self-contained residential unit within the

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231502

• 6 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of alterations and extensions to an existing dwelling

  Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231195

• 15 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of alterations to the front of an existing dwelling

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211760

• 19 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for Retention for Retention of Alterations to an existing dwelling ho

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210391

• 6 Apr 2016Refused

  THE DEVELOPMENT FOR RETENTION CONSISTS OF ALL DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE EXISTING FA

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160343

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

• WX053-002001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a slight E-facing slope. The parish church of Tacumshin dedicated to St. Catherine is within a subrectangular graveyard (max. dims c. 65m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by earthen banks and hedges. References to the church date from the early 15th century (Hore 1920, 72-3), and the names of many of the clergy are known (Hore 1949, 30-3). According to Bishop Thomas Ram, the Protestant bishop of Fern, in 1615 Philip Rawe was the vicar and the church and chancel were in repair (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 267). The remains consist of the ivy-covered walls of a nave and chancel church, with a S aisle and the outline of a N aisle. The nave (int. dims 12.7m E-W; 5.8m N-S) is represented by the W gable with a pointed window (Wth 0.16m; H 1.16m) in a lintelled embrasure (Wth 1.2m; H 1.8m), and a length of the N wall at the W end. A N aisle is outlined by some of the foundation courses. The S aisle (ext. dims 9.2m E-W; 5.1m N-S; int. dims. 6.85m E-W; 3.5m N-S) survives complete to the roof level with gables at E (H 3.8m) and W (H c. 4m) and a statue shelf on the E wall. It is entered from the nave by three round arches (Wth 1.92m; H 1.65m; D 1m) of dressed limestone voussoirs resting on two rectangular and chamfered piers (dims 0.76m x 0.47m) of limestone. The arches could be closed with shutters and the E pier has corbels on its N and S faces probably to support rood screens in both the nave and the S aisle. The S aisle has a double ogee-headed window (Wth 0.54m; H 1.4m) with the central mullion missing in an arched embrasure (Wth 1.4m; H 1.8m) on the E wall. There are three single ogee-headed windows (Wth 0.19m; H 0.78m) in lintelled embrasures (Wth 0.9-0.97m; H 1.25-1.38m) in the S wall, one with a glazing channel, and there is a rectangular window (Wth 0.3m; H 0.84m) with a glazing bar in the W wall. This aisle also has a tomb niche (Wth 1.7m; H 0.65m; D 0.2m) at the W end of the S wall and a small granite bullaun stone (dims 0.44m x 0.37m; H 0.23m plus) with a single basin (diam. 0.2m; D 0.22m) is buried in the ground at the W end of the S aisle. A pointed chancel arch (Wth 2.2m; H 1.45m) leads to the chancel (int. dims 7.27m E-W; 3.92m N-S) surviving to the roof level, except at the W end of the N wall. The S pier of the chancel arch has a hagioscope or viewing window from the nave. There is a three-light ogee-headed window (Wth 1.25m; H 1.78m) with glazing grooves, and a statue shelf N of it in the E wall. The S wall has an ogee-headed aumbry (Wth 0.42m; H 0.58m; D 0.26m) at its E end and a single-light ogee-headed window (Wth 0.19m; H 0.97m) with a glazing groove at its W end. There is a graveslab (L 2.16m; Wth 0.55-0.67m) in the chancel with an incised floriated cross and an incised inscription in Latin commemorating John Ingram, who has been identified, possibly, as a Canon of Ferns in 1304 (FitzGerald 1903; Hore 1949, 31). The cruciform remains of the Church of Ireland church of St. Catherine that was built in 1835 for the Ecclesiastical District of Churchtown, which included the parishes of Tacumshin and Ballymore (Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 326), is just W of the medieval church. The site of St Catherine's Well (WX053-003----) is c. 115m to the ESE of the original church. The Hay castle (WX053-004----) is c. 150m to the ESE and the Siggins castle (WX053-001----) is c. 550m to the WNW. 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. See the attached views taken from SE (001), E (002), raised from W, and of windows in the S aisle (004). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 21 March 2014

• WX053-002002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a slight E-facing slope. The parish church of Tacumshin (WX053-002001-) dedicated to St. Catherine is within a subrectangular graveyard (max. dims c. 65m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by earthen banks and hedges. The cruciform remains of the Church of Ireland church of St. Catherine that was built in 1835 for the Ecclesiastical District of Churchtown, which included the parishes of Tacumshin and Ballymore (Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 326), is within the graveyard just W of the medieval church. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 21 March, 2014

• WX053-002003 Bullaun stone
  Description

  A small bullaun stone (dims 0.44m x 0.37m; H 0.23m plus) with a single basin (diam. 0.2m; D 0.22m) is buried in the ground at the W end of the S aisle of Tacumshin parish church (WX053-002001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 March, 2014

• WX053-002004 Graveslab
  Description

  There is a graveslab (L 2.16m; Wth 0.55-0.67m) in the chancel of the parish church of Tacumshin (WX053-002001-). It has an incised floriated cross and an incised inscription in Latin commemorating John Ingram, who has been identified, possibly, as a Canon of Ferns in 1304 (FitzGerald 1903; Hore 1949, 31). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 March, 2014

• WX053-003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  A well is marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map which is described in gothic lettering on both as St. Catherine’s Well. It is located on a level landscape with a small NE-SW stream just to the E. It is not visible at ground level in an area that is overgrown in places with scrub. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 the pattern was celebrated on 21 October, which is not associated with any particular saint, but the pattern was not being observed even then (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 268). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 21 March, 2014

• WX053-090 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a broad rise with the valley of a small N-S stream c. 150m to the W. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a slight fosse feature W-N-SE is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX053-090_1 to _4) from 2004. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 March, 2014

• WX053-103 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape with the valley of a small N-S stream c. 150m to the W. Archaeological testing (06E0662) identified some features including a ditch (Wth 2.5m; D 0.58m), four small pits (dims c. 0.3-0.6m), one of which produced a sherd of a large Bronze Age vessel, and two gullies, one of which produced flint debitage. The features are preserved in situ. (McLoughlin 2006, 406) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 21 March, 2014

Architectural heritage

• Saint Catherine's Church (Tacumshin), church/chapel, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of detached three-bay double-height Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1834-5, on a cruciform plan comprising single-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay (single-bay deep) double-height transepts centred on single-bay double-height chancel to crossing (east). Now in ruins. Roof now missing. Creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls on cut-granite plinth with concealed red brick flush quoins to corners. Lancet window openings with cut-granite flush sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds with no fittings surviving. Window opening to chancel (east) with remains of cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals. Interior in ruins. Set in landscaped grounds with hedge boundary to perimeter centred on wrought iron gate.

• Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey projecting porch. Occupied, 1990. "Restored", 2000-1, to accommodate occasional use. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped oat thatch roof with pressed iron ridge above exposed hazel stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered off-central chimney stack supporting terracotta pots, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed off-central door opening into farmhouse. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes with six-over-six timber sash windows to side elevations. Set back from road with monolithic piers to perimeter supporting replacement tubular mild street "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 Churchtown, 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Churchtown · Baile an Teampaill

Area

379,196 m² (37.92 ha, 93.7 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

Fence, Millknock, Sigginstown, Tacumshin

Placenames

Churchtown 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.