Castlequarter

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlequarter, from 416 m² to 315,918 m² (31.59 ha, 78.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Castlequarter 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.

• 1 Aug 2023N/a

  Permission for the replacement of an existing fish screen . The proposed work

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230887

• 19 Jun 2023N/a

  Permission for the replacement of an existing fish screen. The proposed work

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230685

• 29 Jun 2020Refused

  Permission to erect a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic garage/ store a

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200696

• 30 Mar 2020N/a

  PERMISSION TO ERECT AN AGRICULTURAL FEED STORE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE ALTERATIO

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200395

• 23 Feb 2018Granted (conditional)

  1) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A PITCHED ROOF TO EXISTING EXTENSION TO SIDE OF DWELL

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180215

• 6 Nov 2017Refused

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF EXISTING FARROWING HOUSE AND PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171432

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slaney River Valley 000781

Recorded monuments

• WX009-005 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on rock outcrop on the E bank of the NW-SE River Slaney, with the stream c. 180m to the NW, and Ryland castle (WX009-004----) is on the other side of the river c. 400m distant. The manor of Clohamon, although probably derelict, was held by the King from the 1540s (Goff 1987, 126). The Lands of Clohamon were leased by Richard Sinnott of Ballybrennan (WX048-001001-) from 1572 and Clohamon was burnt in 1579 by the Kavanaghs (ibid. 129-30). The lands were leased by Thomas Masterson from 1581. References to Clohamon Castle date from early 17th century, and it was described as a bawn with two towers and a gate in 1610. Masterson sold the property to Sir George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, in 1625 who re-built it (Loeber, Stouthamer-Loeber 1987, 199–200). Lord Blatimore established the colony of Maryland as a Catholic haven in north America in 1634. Clohamon was pillaged in 1643 although described as a 'fair Castle' in the Civil Survey (Simington 1953, 260). The manor was leased in 1637 by Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, to William Swanston, and in the late 1650s he leased it to a London consortium in the hope of developing an iron industry (Lyttleton 2013a). The foundations of one wall (L 6.4m) survive on the E side of a quarry. Archaeological testing (09E0393) revealed that this is the battered facing of the rock-outcrop (H 1.85m) with a rock-cut fosse (Wth 3.7m; D 0.4m) at its base. The fosse had late medieval ceramics and slates in the fill. A curved section of the wall (T 0.8m) of a flanking tower, probably from a bawn, was also uncovered (Lyttleton 2009; 2012). A further season in 2010 led to the re-interpretation of this wall as part of the castle itself, although no further remains of it were found on the rock outcrop. The castle fosse was found extending E as a drain (Wth 2.2m; D 0.9m) which was overlaid by an 18th century NNW-SSE road. (Lyttleton 2009) The shadow of a sill-beam incorporated in a brick-built building that was probably timber-framed (WX009-016----) with an attached kiln was also uncovered in 2011, c. 200m NNE of the castle. The walls survived to two courses of bricks and were bonded with a lime-mortar, as was the shale-flagged floor (dims 4m x c. 5m). The foundations and fill of the attached brick-built kiln produced mid to late-17th century ceramics and tobacco pipes, suggesting that it was abandoned by 1700 AD. This building was probably a malt-house where moist barley was spread on the floor and allowed to sprout before being dried in the kiln as part of the beer-making process. (Lyttleton 2013; 2013a) 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: 5 April, 2012 Amended: 30 December, 2013

• WX009-015 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Located on the floor of the valley of the NW-SE River Slaney with the stream c. 350m to the W. Archaeological testing (05E0842) uncovered a hearth and a pit with prehistoric pottery. (McLoughlin 2008) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 May, 2012

• WX009-016 Maltings
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape with a NE-SW section of the River Slaney c. 150m to the NW. The shadow of a sill-beam incorporated in a brick-built building that was probably timber-framed with an attached kiln was uncovered (09E0393) in 2011, c. 200m NNE of the Clohamon castle (WX009-005----). The walls survived to two courses of bricks and were bonded with a lime-mortar, as was the shale-flagged floor (dims 4m x c. 5m). The foundations and fill of the attached brick-built kiln produced mid to late-17th century ceramics and tobacco pipes, suggesting that it was abandoned by 1700 AD. This building was probably a malt-house where moist barley was spread on the floor and allowed to sprout before being dried in the kiln as part of the beer-making process. (Lyttleton 2013; 2013a, 21-2) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 30 January, 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castlequarter.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2846 (ZIP).

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

Name

Castlequarter · Ceathrú an Chaisleáin

Area

886,514 m² (88.65 ha, 219.06 acres)

Civil parish

Kilrush, and its townlands

Barony

Scarawalsh

Electoral division

Newtownbarry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newtownbarry electoral division: 2,440 people in 919 households; 61% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyrankin, Clohamon, Knockanure, Ryland Lower

Placenames

Castlequarter 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.