# Castletalbot, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killila, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile na Móna.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 744,767 m² (74.48 ha, 184.04 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killila, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/killila.md
- Barony: Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division: Castle Talbot, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 987 people lived in 355 households in the Castle Talbot electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/52350
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 240744
- Centre: latitude 52.4548, longitude -6.354467 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castletalbot; 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:


## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Castletalbot 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)

No planning application touches the townland of Castletalbot in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## 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 Castletalbot.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- WX027-029: Structure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX027-029----. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) a ruined stone house in Balinemony, which is probably Castletalbot townland, and 248 acres in Killila parish were owned in 1641 by Francis Talbot, a Protestant (Simington 1953, 53-4. 78). Apart from Balinemony the land was in Ballynagore and the unknown Knockanmacshorige townlands. ‘Castle Talbot’ is marked in gothic script on the 1839 and 1924 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, but this feature is described by John O’Donovan c. 1840 as a rectangular tower ‘13 feet by 13 feet and about 20 feet’ (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 90). It is still extant but is not likely to be part of the original Talbot house. The tower (ext. dims. 4.68m E-W; 4.12m N-S) has three storeys with the upper floors supported on joists that were set into the N and S walls. The round-headed entrance (Wth 1.18m) through the S wall leads to a rectangular room with large windows (Wth 1.33-1.37m) in the N, E and W walls, and a brick fireplace in the NW angle. Access to the first floor was by an external stairs of granite blocks and through a blocked doorway in the S wall. This floor has three round-headed windows. The second floor was reached by an internal wooden stairs against the S wall and has round-headed windows in the E and W walls. Externally there were simple stepped crenelations at roof level. The tower is probably a folly erected on the grounds of Castle Talbot House, a mid 18th century mansion, c. 250m to the ENE, although it may be on the site of the 17th century house that is otherwise unlocated. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 August, 2012
- WX027-030: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX027-030----. Marked only on the 1924 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated in a low-lying landscape. This is a raised D-shaped area (dims. 43m N-S; 42m E-W; H 1.2m) with the straight W side adjacent to a N-S stream. There are traces of a fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.3m) N-NE. It is now planted with coniferous trees and was at one time planted with deciduous trees. Castle Talbot House, an 18th century mansion, is c. 150m to the W and enclosure (WX027-031----) is c. 110m to the NNE. It may be a landscape feature. 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: 17 July 2012
- WX027-031: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX027-031----. Marked only on the 1924 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated in a level, low-lying landscape with a N-S stream c. 20m to the E. This is a raised circular area (diam. 32m E-W; H 1.2 1.5m) with traces of a fosse (at W: Wth of top 5.5m; D 0.4m) S-NW. It is planted with coniferous trees and is situated c. 260m NE of Castle Talbot House, an 18th century mansion, and the enclosure (WX027-030----) is c. 110m to the SSW. It may be a landscape feature. 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: 17 July 2012
- WX027-044: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX027-044----. Marked as St. Bridget’s Well on the 1839 and 1924 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on the NE bank of a small NW-SE stream. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 the pattern was held on the 1st February until c. 1830 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 90-1). This is a natural spring with no evidence of veneration. The church site (WX027-045001-) is c. 80m to the S on the other side of the stream. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 July, 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)

- Castle Talbot, country house, 1750–1755, Regional interest, registry number 15702732, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX&regno=15702732. Detached five-bay three-storey country house, built 1753, on a T-shaped plan; single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return (north). Vacant, 1863. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Hipped slate roof on a quadrangular plan centred on hipped slate roof (north), clay ridge tiles, rendered, ruled and lined buttressed chimney stacks having cut-granite "Cavetto" capping supporting crested terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined wall to front (south) elevation on rendered chamfered plinth with rusticated cut-granite quoins to corners; rendered "sweeps" with ball finial-topped lichen-spotted cut-granite coping; part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast surface finish (remainder). Round- or segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of three cut-granite steps with cast-iron "griffin" bootscrapers, cut-granite doorcase with rusticated pilasters supporting ogee-detailed pediment on fluted dosserets framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and inscribed surrounds centred on keystones framing six-over-six or three-over-six (top floor) timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings between statue-filled round-headed niches ("sweeps") with cut-granite lugged surrounds centred on fluted keystones framing timber boarded doors. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement to rear (north) elevation with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six or three-over-six (top floor) timber sash windows having two-over-two or one-over-two (top floor) sidelights. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having statue-topped cut-granite capping supporting spear head-detailed wrought iron double gates.

## 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 Castletalbot, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3161, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3161.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/castletalbot.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/castletalbot.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/castletalbot.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Castletalbot 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)

- Ballynaglogh: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballynaglogh-240421.md
- Ballynellard: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballynellard.md
- Crosshue: https://everytownland.com/wexford/crosshue.md
- Glebe: https://everytownland.com/wexford/glebe-241198.md
- Monanarrig: https://everytownland.com/wexford/monanarrig.md
- Riesk: https://everytownland.com/wexford/riesk-241984.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.

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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/castletalbot
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/castletalbot