Walshestown
Walshestown is a townland in the civil parish of Rathmacknee, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile na mBreatnach.
Parcel 421884
- Area
- 2,398 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Walshestown
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3024 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 58.7 ha
- 145 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 3,191 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Walshestown, from 29 m² to 107,820 m² (10.78 ha, 26.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Walshestown 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
28 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251384
19 Apr 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of rear extensions, front wall and entrance and front
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230411
21 Mar 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the closing up of an existing entrance & for the construction of
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220359
15 Mar 2021Granted (unconditional)
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20161223
10 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for (a) the demolition of an existing outbuilding on site and the pro
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200293
14 Jan 2020Refused
PERMISSION FOR (A) THE DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING OUTBUILDING ON SITE AND THE PRO
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200022
28 Jan 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTIONOF AN EXTENTION TO THE REAR OF AN EXHISTING DWELLING
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190092
14 Dec 2018N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF AN EXISTING DWELLING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181721
30 May 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION IS SOUGHT FOR TO RETAIN THE EXISTING GARAGE/ STORE ON S
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180727
7 Sept 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF SITE LAYOUT AND SITE BOUNDARIES (FROM PLANS APPROVED UN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160995
7 Sept 2016N/a
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/ STORE AND ASSOCIAT
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160996
19 May 2016Granted (conditional)
RETAIN THE EXISTING GARAGE/STORE AS CONSTRUCTED ON SITE (GARAGE/STORE USED TO KE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160528
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Walshestown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Walshestown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Walshestown.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Walshestown, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3024 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Walshestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Walshestown · Baile na mBreatnach
- Area
- 587,145 m² (58.71 ha, 145.09 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
- Ballynaas Great, Hobbinstown, Milestown, Mountpleasant or Tagunnan, Orristown, Petitstown, Rathmacknee Little, Ringaheen, Talbotstown
- Placenames
- Walshestown 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.