Castletown

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castletown, from 47 m² to 395,189 m² (39.52 ha, 97.65 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 Castletown 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.

• 16 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for (1) renovation and conversion of 3 no. existing structures to

  Permission, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220808

• 10 Sept 2018Granted (conditional)

  THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF: PROPOSED SELF CONTAINED SINGLE STOREY RESIDENTI

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181237

• 31 Jul 2018N/a

  PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE O

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181038

• 28 Aug 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE FRONT AND REAR OF EXISTING DORM

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171150

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 Castletown.

Recorded monuments

• WX003-033 Burial ground
  Description

  Situated on a low-lying landscape with the NW-SE Dooroge stream c. 250m to the E. Marked faintly as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) described as the 'site of Templesillagh Grave Yard' in itallic lettering on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. No feature is visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 14 February 2012

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1813–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan originally five-bay two-storey on a symmetrical plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Hipped fibre-cement slate roof with lichen-spotted ridge tiles, paired red brick Running bond central chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on limewashed slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Limewashed roughcast walls on rendered plinth; cement rendered surface finish to rear (south) elevation. Segmental-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in own grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having stepped capping supporting barley twist-detailed flat iron 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 Castletown, 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 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 Castletown.

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

Name

Castletown · Baile an Chaisleáin

Area

820,534 m² (82.05 ha, 202.76 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgorman, and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Kilgorman, the unit of the census

Census 2022

890 people lived in 297 households in the Kilgorman electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacree, Barroge, Clondarragh, Hydepark, Monagarrow Lower, Monagarrow Upper

Placenames

Castletown 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.