Laurstown

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laurstown, from 7 m² to 186,383 m² (18.64 ha, 46.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Laurstown 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 Jun 2026N/a

  Permission for a proposed residential development, forming the final phase of

  Permission, 36 homes · Wexford County Council, 20260760

• 16 Nov 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of an overground slurry tank

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231373

• 5 Apr 2023Refused

  Permission for the construction of an overground slurry tank (2,525m3 capacity)

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230350

• 19 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention & completion of: (i) change of inter-site boundary tre

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211797

• 15 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development which will consist of A) an approx. 300 metres (m) ex

  Permission, 45 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210552

• 25 Aug 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT A)ERECTION OF 37 NO. DWELLING HOUSES CONSISTING OF TE

  Permission, 37 homes · Wexford County Council, 20160947

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 Laurstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Laurstown.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3022 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Laurstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Laurstown · Baile Láir

Area

599,926 m² (59.99 ha, 148.24 acres)

Civil parish

St. Peter's, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Wexford Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Wexford Rural electoral division: 14,194 people in 5,189 households; 64% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagee, Clonard Great, Hayestown Great, Killeens, Moorfields, Pembrokestown, Rathaspick

Placenames

Laurstown 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.