Cotts

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cotts, from 25 m² to 93,081 m² (9.31 ha, 23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Cotts 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 Apr 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of alterations to the existing approved dwelling

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240410

• 4 Apr 2024N/a

  Permission for retention of alterations to existing approved dwelling

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240363

• 22 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced new dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220829

• 16 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING HOUSE THAT IS SUBSTANTIA

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170319

• 3 Mar 2017N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING HOUSE THAT IS SUBSTANTIA

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170252

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 Cotts.

Recorded monuments

• WX048-039 Standing stone - pair
  Description

  Situated on a gently rolling landscape. Two monoliths placed 0.9m apart form a line oriented N-S. The N stone with a rectangular cross-section (dims 0.6m x 0.5m; H 1.15m) has a possible ogham inscription on one angle close to the flat top. It has been read as: IARNI (Macalister 1945, vol. 1, 48-9). The S stone has a rectangular cross-section (dims 0.68m x 0.44m; H 1.03m) with a rounded top. Both stones are of a conglomerate stone with quartz. The area around them was excavated by Macalister with no result (1921, 77). 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: 07 January 2014

• WX048-039001 Ogham stone
  Description

  Situated on a gently rolling landscape. Two monoliths placed 0.9m apart form a line oriented N-S. The N stone with a rectangular cross-section (dims 0.6m x 0.5m; H 1.15m) has a possible ogham inscription on one angle close to the flat top. It has been read as: IARNI (Macalister 1945, vol. 1, 48-9). The S stone has a rectangular cross-section (dims 0.68m x 0.44m; H 1.03m) with a rounded top. Both stones are of a conglomerate stone with quartz. The area around them was excavated by Macalister with no result (1921, 77). 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: 07 January 2014

• WX048-128 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a fairly level, low-lying landscape. The cropmark of a bivallate circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 35m; ext. diam. c. 55m) with an entrance through both fosse features at SE is visible on aerial photographs (MM (43) 34-7; OPWAP, 26981, 1-5). 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: 07 January 2014

• WX048-147 Pit
  Description

  Located on a fairly level, low-lying landscape. The cropmark of a large pit or quarry (diam. c. 20m) is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX048-148_1, _2) taken in July, 2006. The pit pre-dates the NNE-SSW field bank and drain that are marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map but which are now removed. It is also visible on the OSi series of aerial photographs (1995). Rath (WX048-148----) is c. 80m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 January, 2104

• WX048-148 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level, low-lying landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX048-148 _1, _2) taken in July 2006. There is an entrance gap at SE. The large pit or quarry (WX048-147----) is c. 80m to the WNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 7 January, 2014

• WX048-158001 Ring-ditch
  Description

  An aerial photograph (GB90.CG.25) shows a cropmark of a ring-ditch (diam. c. 5m). A second ring-ditch (WX048-158002-) is attached just to the S. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett, Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 February, 2012

• WX048-158002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  An aerial photograph (GB90.CG.25) shows a cropmark of a ring-ditch (diam. c. 5m). A second ring-ditch (WX048-158001-) is attached immediately to the N. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett, Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 February, 2012.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cotts.

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 Cotts, 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

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

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

Name

Cotts · Na Botha

Area

550,904 m² (55.09 ha, 136.13 acres)

Civil parish

Tacumshin, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Tacumshin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

507 people lived in 204 households in the Tacumshin electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacane, Ballytory Upper, Faythe, Hardyglass, Rathrolan, Ring, Ringknock

Placenames

Cotts 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.