Hilltown

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hilltown, from 356 m² to 275,602 m² (27.56 ha, 68.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Hilltown 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.

• 22 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of two single storey extensions A) South West side

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211638

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Carnsore Point SAC 002269
• Special Protection Area: Seas off Wexford cSPA 004237

Recorded monuments

• WX048-047 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise in a gently undulating landscape. A subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) is visible as a cropmark defined by a wide fosse feature (Wth c. 2-4m) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDJ 9). It has an entrance gap at SE and is also visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (5) 14-16), but it is not visible at ground level in a cereal crop. 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: 7 January 2014

• WX048-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a fairly level landscape. The site is now occupied by bungalow but the arc of scarp (H 0.8m) is visible S-W (C 34m). Standing stone (WX048-048001-) is 55m to the W. 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: 7 January 2014

• WX048-048001 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape. A granite stone (dims 1.1m x 0.47m; H 1.03m) is aligned N-S. The W edge of the rath (WX048-048----) is c. 55m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 January, 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Hilltown, 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 Hilltown.

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

Name

Hilltown · Baile an Chnoic

Area

545,147 m² (54.51 ha, 134.71 acres)

Civil parish

Kilrane, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

St. Helen's, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,719 people lived in 1,005 households in the St. Helen's electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyreilly, Ballytrent, Drinagh, Rathdowney, Summertown

Placenames

Hilltown 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.