Ardcolm

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardcolm, from 90 m² to 135,269 m² (13.53 ha, 33.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Ardcolm 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.

• 3 Jun 2025N/a

  Permission for the erection of an extension to the side and rear of an existing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250664

• 28 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)

  Planning permission for the erection of an extension to the side of an existing

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220868

• 20 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of extensions and alterations to existing single sto

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210575

• 14 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a new detached double domestic garage and associated

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201537

• 10 Jun 2020Refused

  Permission for the erection of extensions and alterationsto exisiting single

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200608

• 6 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to change the type and location of the proposed wastewater treatment

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200267

• 17 May 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING FULLY SERVICED DETACHED

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170606

• 28 Mar 2017N/a

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING FULLY SERVICED DETACHED D

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170378

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Wexford Harbour and Slobs SPA 004076

Recorded monuments

• WX038-001001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a slight E-facing slope with a small N-S stream c. 30m to the E. This is the parish church of Ardcolm within a raised D-shaped graveyard (int. dims. 35m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by a tree-covered earthen bank (Wth 2-2.5m; int. H c. 1m; ext. H 2m). This is a nave (ext. dims. 10m E-W; 6.45m N-S) and chancel (ext. dims. 6.75m E-W; 5.40m N-S) church with walls (T 0.75-0.85m) of mortared shale, quartz and conglomerate surviving to a H of c. 3m. The original entrance in the W gable is now destroyed. Single undecorated lights survive in the N wall of the nave and of the chancel. The pointed chancel arch (Wth 2.4m) is of uncut stone, and the chancel walls are not bonded to the nave. St Columb's Well, a natural spring at which the pattern was held on the 9th June according to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 307) lies c. 130m to the SE, on the other side of the stream. Archaeological testing (03E1711) (03E1711) immediately S and SE of the graveyard at failed to produce any related material (Stafford 2006). 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: 18 January 2013

• WX038-001002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a slight E-facing slope with a small N-S stream c. 30m to the E. The site of the early church and the parish church of Ardcolm (WX038-001001-) are within a raised D-shaped graveyard (int. dims. 35m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by a tree-covered earthen bank (Wth 2-2.5m; int. H c. 1m; ext. H 2m). St Columb's Well (WX038-002----) lies c. 130m to the SE, on the other side of the stream. Archaeological testing (03E1711) (03E1711) immediately S and SE of the graveyard at failed to produce any related material (Stafford 2006). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 January, 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3094 (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 Ardcolm with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ardcolm · Ard Cholaim

Area

515,689 m² (51.57 ha, 127.43 acres)

Civil parish

Ardcolm, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere East

Electoral division

Ardcavan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardcavan electoral division: 3,011 people in 1,125 households; 79% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycrane, Ballyla, Johnstown, Kilmisten, Knockmore, North West Slob, Oldtown

Placenames

Ardcolm 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.