Ralphtown
Ralphtown is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcowan, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile an Rátha.
Parcel 5539331
- Area
- 20,283 m² (2.03 ha, 5.01 acres)
- Buildings
- 6 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,350 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
- Ralphtown
Planning applications on this parcel
19 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to amend the design of the approved development (Planning Reg. Ref.
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230680
2 Jun 2023N/a
Permission to amend the design of the approved development
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230625
23 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for a solar farm development which consists of the following.
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221551
29 Mar 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC PANEL ARRAYS CONSISTING OF
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180389
15 Jul 2016Refused
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY CONSISTING OF UP TO 88600M2 OF SOL
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160811
12 Jul 2016N/a
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY CONSISTING OF UP TO 88,600 M2 OF S
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160793
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- WX046-025 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30-40m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6 inch map. It is located on a level, low-lying landscape. No antiquity is visible at ground level, although field boundaries now describe a triangle (dims c. 40m N-S; c. 40m E-W) with the apex at S that is open on the N side. 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: 20 August, 2013
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2919 (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
- 63 ha
- 156 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 20,283 m² (2.03 ha, 5.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ralphtown, from 2,817 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres) to 273,906 m² (27.39 ha, 67.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Ralphtown 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
23 Apr 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250474
8 Apr 2025N/a
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and shared
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250406
18 Nov 2024Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together with
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241422
19 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to amend the design of the approved development (Planning Reg. Ref.
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230680
2 Jun 2023N/a
Permission to amend the design of the approved development
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230625
23 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for a solar farm development which consists of the following.
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221551
23 Sept 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221270
17 May 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for Retention of an extension to the rear of an existing retail outle
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210746
1 May 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION FOR THE REMOVAL OF AN OUTFALL PIPE FROM A PERCOLATION AREA SERVING
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190593
29 Mar 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC PANEL ARRAYS CONSISTING OF
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180389
28 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR A FIELD GATE ENTRANCE FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF AGRICULTURAL USE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170377
17 Oct 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A 2 STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161146
15 Jul 2016Refused
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY CONSISTING OF UP TO 88600M2 OF SOL
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160811
12 Jul 2016N/a
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY CONSISTING OF UP TO 88,600 M2 OF S
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160793
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 Ralphtown.
Recorded monuments
- WX046-025 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30-40m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6 inch map. It is located on a level, low-lying landscape. No antiquity is visible at ground level, although field boundaries now describe a triangle (dims c. 40m N-S; c. 40m E-W) with the apex at S that is open on the N side. 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: 20 August, 2013
- WX046-093 Enclosure
Description
Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 40m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by single fosse features and with straight edges at W and S, parallel with mapped field banks is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX046-093_1 to _5) taken in July 2006. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 August, 2013 Amended: 1 May, 2014
- WX046-094 Ring-ditch
Description
Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 8m) defined by a single unbroken fosse feature (Wth c. 2m) is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX046-094_1 to _5) taken in July 2006. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 July, 2013
- WX047-144 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of an enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single feature is visible on aerial photographs (WX047-144_1 to _5). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 18 October, 2013
Architectural heritage
- Baldwinstown National School, school, 1867–1901 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay (two-bay deep) single-storey national school, extant 1901, on a symmetrical plan with single-bay single-storey recessed lower porches. Closed, ---- Refenestrated, 2000. Now disused. Hipped slate roof; lean-to slate roofs behind parapets (porches), clay ridge tiles, rendered central "wallhead" chimney stack to rear (west) elevation having stringcourse below capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pot, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings in camber-headed recesses with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door openings in camber-headed recesses approached by two cut-granite steps with concealed dressings framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.
- Post box, 1881–1901 · Regional interest
Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron "wall box" post box, between 1881-1901; extant 1903, with "VR [Victoria Regina]" royal cipher. Set in limewashed boundary wall.
- Bridge, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Single-span road bridge over railway line, opened 1906, on a skewed plan. Sited spanning railway line with unkempt embankments to railway line.
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 Ralphtown, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2919 (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 Ralphtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ralphtown · Baile an Rátha
- Area
- 629,930 m² (62.99 ha, 155.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcowan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bargy
- Electoral division
- Kilcowan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 525 people lived in 204 households in the Kilcowan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Beckville, Coolycall, Kilcowan Upper, Muchtown, Newhouse, Newtown Little, Shanoo
- Placenames
- Ralphtown 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.