Churchtown

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Churchtown, from 3,781 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres) to 237,818 m² (23.78 ha, 58.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 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.

• 1 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of the erection of an extension to the rear of an

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260392

• 6 Feb 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for alteration to previously granted planning permission

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20240115

• 7 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed demolition of existing habitable house and

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220755

• 23 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission of the conversion/alterations and change of use of an existing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201241

• 29 Apr 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a detached single storey outbuilding.

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200475

• 5 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR A DETACHED STORAGE SHED. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT IS WITHIN THE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191612

• 20 Nov 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR A DETACHED SHED ALL WITH ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191543

• 21 May 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF AN EXISTING GUESTHOUSE AND ASSOCIATE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190683

• 1 May 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE INTERIOR REFURBISHMENTS AND CHANGE OF USE OF: 1. THE EXISTI

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190592

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Wexford Slobs And Harbour 000712

Recorded monuments

• WX048-006001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in a low-lying, gently rolling landscape, and c. 120m W of the R736 Tagoat to Rosslare Strand road, accessed by a lane (L c. 115m). The parish church of Rosslare is within a pentagonal graveyard (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 45m N-S) defined by earthen banks with a masonry wall in places. Some of the clergy of St. Mary’s, Rosslare, are known 1389-1550 (Hore 1949, 53). According to the Visitation of Thomas Ram, the Protestant bishop of Ferns, in 1615 Thomas Gallamore was rector and the vicar was Richard Reigh, and the church was in repair (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 267). The church consists of a nave and chancel. Of the nave (int. dims 13m E-W; 6.1m plus N-S) only the W wall (H 2m) partly survives although John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 describes a double belfry at its apex (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 277). The chancel (int. dims 5.8-5.95m E-W; 4.4-4.68m N-S) survives almost complete to the roof level (H 2.4-2.6m), although the walls are clay-bonded. The pointed chancel arch (Wth 2.05m; H 2.2m) has undressed voussoirs and there is a cupboard on the E face of each pier (Wth 0.9m). There is a two light window (Wth 0.58m; H 1.08m) with granite surrounds, round-head lights and glazing grooves in the E wall but the central mullion is missing. The N and S walls each have two windows that are destroyed or blocked, but the W ones have evidence of glazing grooves. There is a plain tomb niche (Wth 2.2m; H 0.9m; D 0.44m) in the centre of the N chancel wall and a small, partly destroyed, aumbry at the E end of the S wall. St. Mary’s Well (WX048-013----) is c. 1.3km to the S. 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: 6 January 2014

• WX048-006006 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in a low-lying, gently rolling landscape, and c. 120m W of the R736 Tagoat to Rosslare Strand road, accessed by a lane. The parish church of Rosslare (WX048-006001-) is within a pentagonal graveyard (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 45m N-S) defined by earthen bank with a masonry wall in places. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 January, 2014

Architectural heritage

• Churchtown House, farm house, 1700–1798 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey farmhouse, extant 1798, on a rectangular plan; five-bay two-storey rear (west) elevation. Occupied, 1910; 1911. Renovated, 1994-5, to accommodate alternative use. Replacement hipped fibre-cement slate roof on a quadrangular plan with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge having moss-covered cut-granite capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on roughcast eaves. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, timber doorcase with panelled pilasters supporting shallow cornice, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled double doors having fanlight. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Segmental-headed central door opening to rear (west) elevation with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings centred on segmental-headed window opening (first floor), concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

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 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3135 (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 Churchtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Churchtown · Baile an Teampaill

Area

774,976 m² (77.5 ha, 191.5 acres)

Civil parish

Rosslare, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Kilscoran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,073 people lived in 388 households in the Kilscoran electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybro, Ballygarvey, Drinagh Intake, Ford of Ling, Grahormack, Maytown, Milltown, Streamstown

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.