Buckstown

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Buckstown, from 80 m² to 211,169 m² (21.12 ha, 52.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Buckstown 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.

• 4 Jun 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for: 1) minor alterations to the elevations 2) revised site boundary,

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260722

• 7 Dec 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a slatted unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221620

• 11 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)

  Retention planning permission for the retention of 39 sq. m. single storey

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220180

• 20 Dec 2021N/a

  Permission for retention of 39m sq single storey side extension to existing

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20212000

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 Buckstown.

Recorded monuments

• WX006-001 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on an E and SE-facin g slope. It was recroded in 1939 as a triangular stone (dims c. 85m N-S; c. 0.1-0.2m E-W; H c. 1.15m) (OSFM). It was not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture in 1987. The possible megalithci structure (WX006-003----) is c. 350m to the SSW. 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: 20 November 2012

Architectural heritage

• Buckstown House, farm house, 1700–1777 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1777, on a T-shaped plan with shell of single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return (west). Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1980. Now in ruins. Remains of pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof, lichen-covered concrete or rendered coping to gables with overgrown chimney stacks to apexes, and no rainwater goods surviving on slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Slate hung lime rendered battered walls; rendered, ruled and lined surface finish (gables). Round-headed central door opening with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills now missing, and concealed dressings including timber lintels on red brick imposts with fittings now missing. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds.

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 Buckstown, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Buckstown · Ráithín Chonchúir

Area

946,681 m² (94.67 ha, 233.93 acres)

Civil parish

Carnew, and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Monaseed, the unit of the census

Census 2022

725 people lived in 226 households in the Monaseed electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Askakeel, Aughnamaulmeen, Baltyfarrell, Coolthawn, Cummer, Deerpark, Foxcover

Placenames

Buckstown 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.