Rickardstown

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rickardstown, from 109 m² to 234,251 m² (23.43 ha, 57.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Rickardstown 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.

• 17 Apr 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the refurbishment and extension of existing dwelling house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230399

• 23 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the installation of a new on-site wastewater treatment system

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230297

• 1 Nov 2022Refused

  Permission for the refurbishment and extension of existing dwelling house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221460

• 25 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention of boundaries as erected from those previously

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221427

• 12 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention of dwelling house as constructed including all

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211748

• 10 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a 5 span shed for agricultural purposes, served by an ex

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211440

• 28 May 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for 1) the erection of a self-contained extension to an existing cott

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210843

• 29 Mar 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A 4 SPAN SHED FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES ON LANDS

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190406

• 12 Mar 2019N/a

  PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A 4 SPAN SHED FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES ON LAND

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190311

• 24 Apr 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180545

• 24 Apr 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO INSTALL SOLAR PANELS ON THE ROOFS OF EXISTING SHEDS AND ALL

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170506

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 Rickardstown.

Recorded monuments

• WX052-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low-lying landscape. This is a raised circular, grass-covered area (diam. c. 45m) defined by an earthen bank or scarp (ext. H 1-1.5m) and hedge everywhere except ENE-ESE where the scarp is very slight. There is no visible fosse or entrance. 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: 19 February 2013

• WX052-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single, continuous fosse feature is visible on oblique aerial photographs (CUCAP, AVK 71, AVK 77). It is not 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: 19 February 2014

Architectural heritage

• House, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. "Restored", 2001. Chicken wire-covered replacement hipped or hipped gables oat thatch roof overhanging lean-to roofs to window openings to dormer attic with remains of exposed hazel stretchers to degraded ridge having exposed wire scallops, red brick Running bond off-central dwarf chimney stack supporting terracotta pot, and blind stretchers to eaves having exposed wire scallops. Limewashed roughcast battered walls; part ivy-covered lime rendered surface finish to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two (ground floor) or three-over-six (dormer attic) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes with six-over-six timber sash windows to gables to side elevations. Road fronted with gravel verge to front.

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 Rickardstown, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2957 (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 Rickardstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Rickardstown · Baile Riocaird

Area

626,488 m² (62.65 ha, 154.81 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Kilmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,469 people lived in 925 households in the Kilmore electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballask, Ballygrangans, Ballyhealycastle, Bastardstown, Clongaddy, Grange, Newtown, Sarshill

Placenames

Rickardstown 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.