# Ardcolm, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ardcolm, barony of Shelmaliere East, Co. Wexford; in Irish Ard Cholaim. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 515,689 m² (51.57 ha, 127.43 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,237 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ardcolm, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/ardcolm.md - Barony: Shelmaliere East - Electoral division: Ardcavan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 3,011 people lived in 1,125 households in the Ardcavan electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/53659 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 240023 - Centre: latitude 52.374291, longitude -6.434589 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardcolm, from 90 m² to 135,269 m² (13.53 ha, 33.43 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 428116: 135,269 m² (13.53 ha, 33.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/428116.md - Parcel 378203: 129,106 m² (12.91 ha, 31.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/378203.md - Parcel 372665: 101,885 m² (10.19 ha, 25.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/372665.md - Parcel 408436: 75,522 m² (7.55 ha, 18.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/408436.md - Parcel 410228: 14,963 m² (1.5 ha, 3.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/410228.md - Parcel 410812: 12,879 m² (1.29 ha, 3.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/410812.md - Parcel 2563178: 9,191 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2563178.md - Parcel 398975: 3,985 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/398975.md - Parcel 380594: 3,654 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/380594.md - Parcel 2677408: 3,554 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2677408.md - Parcel 403641: 3,309 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/403641.md - Parcel 376908: 2,772 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/376908.md - Parcel 1541057: 2,402 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1541057.md - Parcel 422072: 2,237 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/422072.md - Parcel 388882: 2,228 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/388882.md - Parcel 416754: 2,079 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/416754.md - Parcel 411438: 1,664 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/411438.md - Parcel 392232: 1,575 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/392232.md - Parcel 425016: 1,104 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/425016.md - Parcel 386398: 1,006 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/386398.md - Parcel 4680691: 974 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4680691.md - Parcel 409294: 901 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/409294.md - Parcel 397099: 895 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/397099.md - Parcel 394296: 864 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/394296.md - Parcel 4626389: 323 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4626389.md - Parcel 419333: 129 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/419333.md - Parcel 411256: 90 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/411256.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 3 Jun 2025, Wexford County Council 20250664: N/a. Permission. Permission for the erection of an extension to the side and rear of an existing. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/129106 - 28 Jun 2022, Wexford County Council 20220868: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. Planning permission for the erection of an extension to the side of an existing. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/123793 - 20 Apr 2021, Wexford County Council 20210575: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. Permission for the erection of extensions and alterations to existing single sto. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/120320 - 14 Dec 2020, Wexford County Council 20201537: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission to erect a new detached double domestic garage and associated. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/118052 - 10 Jun 2020, Wexford County Council 20200608: Refused. Permission, 1 home. Permission for the erection of extensions and alterationsto exisiting single. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/115409 - 6 Mar 2020, Wexford County Council 20200267: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission to change the type and location of the proposed wastewater treatment. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/114719 - 17 May 2017, Wexford County Council 20170606: Granted (conditional). Retention, 1 home. PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING FULLY SERVICED DETACHED. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/103789 - 28 Mar 2017, Wexford County Council 20170378: N/a. Retention. PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING FULLY SERVICED DETACHED D. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/103479 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Wexford Harbour and Slobs SPA, site code 004076, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004076 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WX038-001001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX038-001001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX038-001002-. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardcolm. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ardcolm, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3094, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3094.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ardcolm.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ardcolm.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ardcolm.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ardcolm with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballycrane: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballycrane.md - Ballyla: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballyla.md - Johnstown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/johnstown-241359.md - Kilmisten: https://everytownland.com/wexford/kilmisten.md - Knockmore: https://everytownland.com/wexford/knockmore-241525.md - North West Slob: https://everytownland.com/wexford/north-west-slob.md - Oldtown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/oldtown-241834.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ardcolm - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/ardcolm