Blastknock

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blastknock, from 2,194 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 443,528 m² (44.35 ha, 109.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Blastknock 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.

• 23 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of domestic garage/store built to side

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251202

• 20 Dec 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SUN LOUNGE TO SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161423

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 Blastknock.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blastknock.

Architectural heritage

• Blastknock Cottage, farm house, 1600–1650 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey part double-pile farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1653, on an L-shaped plan originally two-bay single-storey part double-pile on a T-shaped plan; four-bay single-storey rear (south) elevation originally six-bay single-storey. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Pitched part double-pile (M-profile) corrugated-iron roof with pressed iron ridges, roughcast off-central chimney stack having paired stringcourses below capping, lichen-spotted concrete or rendered coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards. Creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed battered walls. Square-headed window openings with creeper- or ivy-covered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows with one-over-one timber sash windows to gables to side elevations. Square-headed window openings to rear (south) elevation with concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

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 10 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Blastknock.

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 Blastknock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Blastknock · An Blaschnoc

Area

911,013 m² (91.1 ha, 225.12 acres)

Civil parish

Taghmon, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere West

Electoral division

Taghmon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Taghmon electoral division: 1,201 people in 444 households; 59% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughfad, Ballynagale, Coolaw, Coolcull (Moylers), Newtown, Taghmon

Placenames

Blastknock 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.