# Brownscastle, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Taghmon, barony of Shelmaliere West, Co. Wexford; in Irish Caisleán an Bhrúnaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 998,688 m² (99.87 ha, 246.78 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,479 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Taghmon, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/taghmon.md - Barony: Shelmaliere West - Electoral division: Taghmon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54463 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 240677 - Centre: latitude 52.338749, longitude -6.649769 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brownscastle, from 46 m² to 616,251 m² (61.63 ha, 152.28 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 422187: 616,251 m² (61.63 ha, 152.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/422187.md - Parcel 4968043: 335,971 m² (33.6 ha, 83.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4968043.md - Parcel 393015: 15,023 m² (1.5 ha, 3.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/393015.md - Parcel 401273: 10,864 m² (1.09 ha, 2.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/401273.md - Parcel 402004: 5,547 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/402004.md - Parcel 406521: 4,311 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/406521.md - Parcel 383254: 2,582 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/383254.md - Parcel 375603: 2,376 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/375603.md - Parcel 375601: 1,933 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/375601.md - Parcel 409908: 1,169 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/409908.md - Parcel 364508: 358 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/364508.md - Parcel 385886: 267 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/385886.md - Parcel 362050: 161 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/362050.md - Parcel 430666: 46 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/430666.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Brownscastle 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 26 Mar 2025, Wexford County Council 20250341: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission for the erection of a slatted tank house with cubicles. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/128745 - 5 Dec 2024, Wexford County Council 20241517: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission for the retention of a detached building containing a home office. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/128213 - 23 Mar 2017, Wexford County Council 20170344: Granted (conditional). Permission. PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A SLATTED CUBICLE HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/103437 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Brownscastle. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WX036-037: House - 16th/17th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX036-037----. References date certainly from the early 17th century when a castle, possibly not this structure, was owned by David Synnott (Jeffrey 1979, 99 100). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) David Synnott owned 180 acres at Brownscastle and the castle is described as ‘a small pile of stone out of repair’ (Simington 1953, 82). It is situated on rock outcrop overlooking the E-W Corrock river c. 60m to the N, and a defile through the S escarpment of the steep-sided valley is immediately to the W. The defile now has a roadway leading to Taghmon, c. 2 km to the S, but an old roadway winds up the escarpment from the NE and passes immediately W of the monument before turning SE. This is a small two storey house (int. dims. 8.1m N-S; 2.75m E-W) constructed of shale with no dressed stone. There is a doorway (Wth 1.25m) towards the N end of the W wall, and there was probably a similar doorway at the same point on the E wall. There are two small slit windows in the long walls and one in the end walls at the ground floor. The joists for the ceiling are set directly into the long walls, but there are arches (D c. 1m) attached to the inner faces of the N and S walls, spanning the building. The first floor has two narrow lights on the E wall and one each on the other walls, that on the W wall with a horizontal slit beneath it. There is no evidence of a fireplace or of a stairs. There W doorway opens into a D-shaped enclosure (int. dims 5.9m N-S; 5.7m E-W) defined by masonry walls (T 0.3-0.45m; H 1.5m) with four small lights surviving and an opening (Wth 2.45m), which may be damage, at NW. See the attached section from the Down Survey (1656-8) parish map (N at top) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725) 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: 7 November, 2012 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) - Farm house, 1842–1851, Regional interest, registry number 15703613, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15703613. Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse house, extant 1851, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey lower central return (east). Occupied, 1911. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched slate roof (east) with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having cut-granite capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" strips to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, doorcase with engaged columns supporting shallow cornice on entablature, and rendered "bas-relief" surround framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Brownscastle. - 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/brownscastle.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/brownscastle.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/brownscastle.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Brownscastle 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) - Ballyhennigan: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballyhennigan.md - Bricketstown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/bricketstown.md - Cloghulatagh: https://everytownland.com/wexford/cloghulatagh.md - Forest: https://everytownland.com/wexford/forest.md - Harristown Big: https://everytownland.com/wexford/harristown-big.md - Harristown Little: https://everytownland.com/wexford/harristown-little.md - Poulmarl: https://everytownland.com/wexford/poulmarl.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/brownscastle - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/brownscastle