Mapestown

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mapestown, from 508 m² to 169,858 m² (16.99 ha, 41.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• G3HA (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 38 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 4 Mar 2021Refused

  retention of the temporary use of the existing hard standing area for the storage and sale of motor vehicles, permission for a garage/workshop, a vehicle storage area, vehicle sales and a shared entrance with the existing house along with all associated site works at

  Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 21161

• 24 Jul 2020Conditional

  for a storey and a half rear extension to existing dwelling house, conversion of existing attic space to habitable area with additional roof lights, demolition of an existing garage, construction of new garage and all other associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 20501

• 28 Jan 2020Conditional

  a new single storey extension to side/rear of existing two storey dwelling and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2035

• 1 Aug 2019Conditional

  the demolition of an existing house and the construction of a new single storey house, a garage, a waste water treatment system and an entrance along with all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 19574

• 26 Jun 2019Conditional

  1) retention planning permission for constructed lean to store 2) full planning permission to construct materials storage shed and all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 19465

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 Mapestown.

Recorded monuments

• WA030-051 Enclosure
  Description

  Visible as a circular feature (diam. c. 50m) in pasture on vertical aerial photographs (OS 9312-13) taken in 1984. It is not visbile at ground level in pasture. Date of upload/revision: 11th August, 2011. Compiled by: Michael Moore.

• WA031-069 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape on the floor of the Cappagh Valley. This is a conglomerate stone with a triangular cross-section at its base (dims. 0.7m NE-SW; 0.7m NW-SE; 0.8m N-S; H 1.6m). The top of the stone has a crest which is oval in plan (dims. 0.75m x 0.35m) and oriented NE-SW. 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: 25th August, 2011.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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_1834 (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 Mapestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Mapestown · Baile an Mhápaigh

Area

770,614 m² (77.06 ha, 190.42 acres)

Civil parish

Kilrush, and its townlands

Barony

Decies Without Drum

Electoral division

Dungarvan Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dungarvan Rural electoral division: 2,096 people in 699 households; 73% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygagin (Garde), Ballynamuck West, Bawnatanavoher, Lackenfune, Luskanargid

Placenames

Mapestown 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.