# Burkestown, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tintern, barony of Shelburne, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile an Bhúrcaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,178,706 m² (117.87 ha, 291.26 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,490 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tintern, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/tintern.md - Barony: Shelburne - Electoral division: Killesk, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Killesk electoral division: 763 people in 291 households; 86% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/53458 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 240690 - Centre: latitude 52.279368, longitude -6.866927 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Burkestown, from 931 m² to 241,008 m² (24.1 ha, 59.55 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 396791: 241,008 m² (24.1 ha, 59.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/396791.md - Parcel 402008: 220,802 m² (22.08 ha, 54.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/402008.md - Parcel 380476: 197,072 m² (19.71 ha, 48.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/380476.md - Parcel 2444338: 161,900 m² (16.19 ha, 40.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2444338.md - Parcel 393444: 124,318 m² (12.43 ha, 30.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/393444.md - Parcel 362414: 69,539 m² (6.95 ha, 17.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/362414.md - Parcel 385890: 53,274 m² (5.33 ha, 13.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/385890.md - Parcel 391217: 31,433 m² (3.14 ha, 7.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/391217.md - Parcel 362095: 7,462 m² (0.75 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/362095.md - Parcel 3286110: 6,348 m² (0.63 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3286110.md - Parcel 407530: 3,832 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/407530.md - Parcel 420274: 2,649 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/420274.md - Parcel 411947: 2,490 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/411947.md - Parcel 412633: 2,411 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/412633.md - Parcel 427048: 2,375 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/427048.md - Parcel 2688690: 2,344 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2688690.md - Parcel 3160932: 2,272 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3160932.md - Parcel 421210: 2,231 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/421210.md - Parcel 429024: 2,091 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/429024.md - Parcel 5663525: 2,033 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5663525.md - Parcel 393311: 1,947 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/393311.md - Parcel 419600: 1,533 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/419600.md - Parcel 2562620: 1,158 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2562620.md - Parcel 417908: 1,093 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/417908.md - Parcel 400505: 931 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/400505.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Burkestown 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 24 Aug 2023, Wexford County Council 20230983: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission for retention for the construction of a single storey extension to. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/125860 - 16 Mar 2022, Wexford County Council 20220352: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for the erection of a commercial vehicle washroom,. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/123234 - 15 Jun 2021, Wexford County Council 20210944: Refused. Permission. Permission for a construction of a commercial vehicle washroom, commercial stora. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/121535 - 21 Jun 2018, Wexford County Council 20180844: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND A DOMESTI. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/106488 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 Burkestown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Burkestown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Burkestown. ## 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 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 Burkestown. - 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/burkestown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/burkestown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/burkestown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Burkestown 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) - Ballygowny: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballygowny.md - Ballytarsna: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballytarsna-240500.md - Coolroe: https://everytownland.com/wexford/coolroe-240910.md - Rathumney: https://everytownland.com/wexford/rathumney.md - Shelbaggan: https://everytownland.com/wexford/shelbaggan.md - Tullerstown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/tullerstown.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/burkestown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/burkestown