Castlereagh

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlereagh, from 71 m² to 172,511 m² (17.25 ha, 42.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Castlereagh 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.

• 11 May 2021Conditional

  for construction of a single storey dwelling sharing existing site entrance, new driveway, wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 21398

• 25 Sept 2020Conditional

  construction of a dwelling, entrance, driveway, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 20684

• 24 Aug 2020Conditional

  the construction of a single-storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance and driveway, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development and boundary works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 20590

• 3 Jul 2018Conditional

  to construct a two-storey dwelling, entrance, driveway, treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 18449

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 Castlereagh.

Recorded monuments

• WA005-027001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated at a fork in a lane on a slight W-facing slope. It is traditionally thought to have been erected during the reign of Elizabeth I and destroyed by Cromwell c. 1650 (O'Flanagan 1929, 51). It is marked with a cluster of cabins on a Down Survey (1655-6) map and terrier, and described as a 'decayed old castle', the property of John Power of Dunhill (WA025-045----) c. 1640 (Simington 1942, 95). It is not visible at ground level. Archaeological testing (02E0423) c. 30m to the SW produced no related material, but two quernstones were recovered in dimantelling an existing building (Gregory 2004, 488, No. 1783). Gregory, N. (2004) Castlereagh/Ballymacarbry: medieval. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2002: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 488. Wordwell. Bray. O'Flanagan, M. (Compiler) (1929) Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Waterford collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Typescript. Bray. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 26 October 2010

• WA005-027002 House - 17th century
  Description

  A thatched house and some cabins at Castlereagh are described on the Down Survey terrier (1655-6). They remain unidentified but are most likely at the castle site (WA005-027001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 June 2011

• WA005-032 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Located at the bottom of a SE-NW valley with a SE-NW stream c. 60m to the SW. Oval grass-covered, slightly raised area (dims. 115m NW-SE; 86m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.4m at NW (downslope) to 1m at SE; ext. H 1m at SE to 1.5m at SW) with external stone-facing, which is replaced by a stone field wall N-SE where there is a road. There is slight evidence of a fosse (Wth at base 5m; D 0.3m) SSE-S, and a possible stone-lined entrance (Wth 2.4m) is at SSE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 27 July 2010

• WA005-054 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on a plateau with a slight S-fscing slope. This is a conglomerate stone with a rectangular cross-section (dims. 0.65m x 0.35-0.5m; H 1.3m) oriented E-W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008

• WA013-005 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated on a slight SE-NW spur with the headwaters of a SE-NW stream c. 170m to the SW. Circular grass-covered mound (diam. 7.5-8m; H 0.2-0.4m) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 4-4.6m; Wth of base 1.7-2.4m) and outer bank (Wth 3.4-4.3m; int. H 0.8-1.1m; ext. H 0.5-0.7m). There is no visible entrance (max. ext. dims. 19.3m NE-SW; 17.3m NW-SE). A ring-barrow (WA013-006----) is c. 70m to the SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008

• WA013-006 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated on a slight SE-NW spur with the headwaters of a SE-NW stream c. 100m to the SW. This is a dished, circular grass-covered area (diam. 17.6m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (max. ext. H 0.6m). It is badly eroded with the bank destroyed at NE (max. ext. dims. 21.4m E-W; 19.2m N-S). A ring-barrow (WA013-005----) is c. 70m to the NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Castlereagh, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Castlereagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Castlereagh · An Caisleán Riabhach

Area

1,513,574 m² (151.36 ha, 374.01 acres)

Civil parish

Kilronan (Clonmel No. 2 Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Glenahiry

Electoral division

Graignagower, the unit of the census

Census 2022

550 people lived in 201 households in the Graignagower electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curraghateskin, Graignagower, Reanadampaun Commons

Placenames

Castlereagh 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.