# Blackstone, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killag, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Chloch Dhubh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 398,282 m² (39.83 ha, 98.42 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,211 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killag, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/killag.md - Barony: Bargy - Electoral division: Killag, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 508 people lived in 176 households in the Killag electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/53995 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 240605 - Centre: latitude 52.216908, longitude -6.644946 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackstone, from 194 m² to 100,689 m² (10.07 ha, 24.88 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 368733: 100,689 m² (10.07 ha, 24.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/368733.md - Parcel 5622620: 76,085 m² (7.61 ha, 18.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5622620.md - Parcel 376468: 74,183 m² (7.42 ha, 18.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/376468.md - Parcel 388817: 27,601 m² (2.76 ha, 6.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/388817.md - Parcel 388629: 20,326 m² (2.03 ha, 5.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/388629.md - Parcel 426528: 11,462 m² (1.15 ha, 2.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/426528.md - Parcel 422024: 9,973 m² (1 ha, 2.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/422024.md - Parcel 430648: 8,955 m² (0.9 ha, 2.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/430648.md - Parcel 421350: 8,838 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/421350.md - Parcel 388321: 8,671 m² (0.87 ha, 2.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/388321.md - Parcel 409181: 7,718 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/409181.md - Parcel 412615: 6,106 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/412615.md - Parcel 380537: 4,619 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/380537.md - Parcel 2397384: 3,250 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2397384.md - Parcel 401952: 3,231 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/401952.md - Parcel 406784: 3,191 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/406784.md - Parcel 423401: 2,963 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/423401.md - Parcel 5533655: 2,915 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5533655.md - Parcel 401362: 2,895 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/401362.md - Parcel 396921: 2,643 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/396921.md - Parcel 2408747: 2,401 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2408747.md - Parcel 5622625: 2,140 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5622625.md - Parcel 371371: 2,026 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/371371.md - Parcel 407395: 2,014 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/407395.md - Parcel 417530: 1,330 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/417530.md - Parcel 369228: 1,058 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/369228.md - Parcel 368731: 586 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/368731.md - Parcel 374506: 340 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/374506.md - Parcel 2684089: 333 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2684089.md - Parcel 2397387: 194 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2397387.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Blackstone 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 3 Apr 2025, Wexford County Council 20250369: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission for retention of the following works; (a) Alterations made. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/128776 - 6 Nov 2023, Wexford County Council 20231338: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission for retention and completion of a dwelling house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/126235 - 20 Apr 2022, Wexford County Council 20220515: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. Permission for the construction of a domestic garage/storage building with home. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/123408 - 18 Mar 2021, Wexford County Council 20210385: Granted (conditional). Permission, 2 homes. Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, garage and all. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/119912 - 13 Apr 2016, Wexford County Council 20160367: Refused. Retention, 1 home. RETENTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND SHED AND FULL PLANNING PERMISSI. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/101368 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Ballyteige Burrow SAC, site code 000696, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000696 - Special Protection Area: Ballyteigue Burrow SPA, site code 004020, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004020 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyteige Burrow, site code 000696 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blackstone. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Salt Bridge, bridge, 1845–1855, Regional interest, registry number 15704644, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15704644. Single-arch road bridge over canal, completed 1853. Tuck pointed rock faced limestone ashlar walls between drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar piers with rock faced cut-limestone stringcourses supporting benchmark-inscribed parapets having lichen-covered rock faced cut-limestone coping. Single elliptical arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar crow stepped voussoirs centred on drag edged rock faced cut-limestone keystones. Site spanning Bridgetown Canal with gorse-covered embankments to canal. ## 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 Blackstone, about 1 in 10 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_2852, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2852.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/blackstone.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/blackstone.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/blackstone.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Blackstone, Duncormick: 6 sales, https://everytownland.com/wexford/blackstone-duncormick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cull: https://everytownland.com/wexford/cull.md - Gibberwell: https://everytownland.com/wexford/gibberwell.md - Reahouse: https://everytownland.com/wexford/reahouse.md - Riverstown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/riverstown.md - Seafield: https://everytownland.com/wexford/seafield-242057.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/blackstone - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/blackstone