Shortalstown

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shortalstown, from 9,656 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres) to 445,641 m² (44.56 ha, 110.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Shortalstown 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.

• 3 Oct 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF AN EXIST

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161092

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 Shortalstown.

Recorded monuments

• WX042-098 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a farily level, low-lying landscape. Aerial photograph (GB89.AP.09) shows the cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) defined by a fosse, set within a larger, irregular curvilinear enclosure (diam. c. 45m) defined by a fosse feature. Date of upload: 28 May, 2013.

Architectural heritage

• Shortalstown House, farm house, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, dated 1835; extant 1840, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting glazed porch to ground floor; single-bay (two- or three-bay deep) full-height central return (north). In occasional use, 1901. Vacant, 1911. "Improved", 1935. Vacated, 2007. For sale, 2008. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched slate roof (north) with terracotta ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having chamfered stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, rooflights (north), and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed lime rendered walls with concealed red brick quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening into farmhouse with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having oversailing fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing twelve-over-eight (ground floor) or eight-over-eight (first floor) timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (north) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; dining room (west) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surround to window opening framing timber panelled shutters, cut-veined white marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and picture railing below moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; drawing room (east) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surround to window opening framing timber panelled shutters, Classical-style chimneypiece, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set in landscaped 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 Shortalstown, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Shortalstown · Baile an tSoirtéalaigh

Area

455,705 m² (45.57 ha, 112.61 acres)

Civil parish

Rathmacknee, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Killinick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

927 people lived in 339 households in the Killinick electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bloomhill, Fardystown, Loughgunnen Great, Loughgunnen Little, Newtown, Roseland, Sallystown, Ting

Placenames

Shortalstown 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.