Courtlands West
Courtlands West is a townland in the civil parish of Mayglass, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Fearann na Cúirte Thiar.
Parcel 5053122
- Area
- 2,864 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 209 m².
- 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
- Courtlands West
Planning applications on this parcel
22 Nov 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171525
15 Sept 2016Granted (conditional)
ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161030
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 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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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
- 32.3 ha
- 80 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 4,358 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Courtlands West, from 370 m² to 153,469 m² (15.35 ha, 37.92 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Courtlands West 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
26 Mar 2026Refused
Permission for extension and modification of existing dwelling and associated
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260375
13 Feb 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for development which will consist of a production bored water well
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240136
17 May 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of (a) an existing 35sq metre attached garage extension
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220648
22 Nov 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171525
15 Sept 2016Granted (conditional)
ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161030
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 Courtlands West.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Courtlands West.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Fintan's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. "Restored", 2008-9. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables on cut-granite kneelers including cut-granite coping to gable to entrance (west) front on cut-granite kneelers with cut-granite gabled bellcote to apex framing cast-bronze bell, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls with rusticated quoins to corners. Lancet window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Pointed-arch window opening to chancel (east) with Y-mullion, and rendered block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass roundels. Paired lancet window openings to entrance (west) front with cut-granite sills, and rendered block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass roundels. Full-height interior open into roof "restored", 2009, with perforated timber panelled wainscoting supporting carved timber dado rail, cut-limestone wall monument (ob. 1840; 1905) between pair of stained glass windows (undated), encaustic tiled aisles between pointed quatrefoil-detailed timber pews, paired Gothic-style timber stations between frosted glass windows, mosaic tiled cut-veined white marble stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, ----, with quatrefoil-detailed cut-veined white marble panelled altar below stained glass "East Window" (----) in stencilled surround, and exposed strutted King post timber roof construction with wind braced stencilled ceiling in carved timber frame. 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Courtlands West, 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 Courtlands West.
- 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 Courtlands West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Courtlands West · Fearann na Cúirte Thiar
- Area
- 323,142 m² (32.31 ha, 79.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mayglass, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Mayglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 600 people lived in 195 households in the Mayglass electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bog East, Bog West, Courtlands East, Mackenstown, Middletown
- Placenames
- Courtlands West 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.