Courthoyle Old

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Courthoyle Old, from 93 m² to 364,910 m² (36.49 ha, 90.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Courthoyle Old 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.

• 8 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251278

• 26 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention of a domestic garage

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250235

• 19 May 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for alterations to the design of the two storey dwelling,

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230547

• 18 May 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together with

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230540

• 29 Mar 2023N/a

  Permission for alterations to the design of the two storey dwelling, Planning

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230317

• 15 Sept 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of the following: ensuite extension to the main house

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221234

• 31 Mar 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a new fully serviced two storey dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220422

• 20 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a single-storey dwelling, detached workshop/store, waste

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211997

• 10 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211442

• 4 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and including

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210885

• 23 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for an extension to existing house with a garage and outhouse and ent

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201618

• 14 Dec 2020N/a

  Permission for an extension to our existing house with a garage and outhouse

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201544

• 11 Nov 2020N/a

  Permission for erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store and associate

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201330

• 6 Oct 2020N/a

  Permission for Erection of a Dwelling house, domestic garage/store and

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20201150

• 2 Apr 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a single storey extension to the existing hou

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200410

• 17 Feb 2020N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200187

• 24 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ENTRANCE TO DWELING HOUSE (ALTERATIONS TO PLANS APPR

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170348

• 24 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)

  PREMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ENTRANCE AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170349

• 20 Jul 2016Granted (conditional)

  ERECTION OF A MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160827

• 11 Jul 2016Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A 21.05M HIGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE, CARRYING ANT

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160782

• 9 Jun 2016Granted (conditional)

  ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLINGHOUSE AND GARAGE

  Outline permission · Wexford County Council, 20160640

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 Courthoyle Old.

Recorded monuments

• WX035-012001 Church
  Description

  Located at the NW foothills of Carrickbyrne Hill, and at the S edge of a small E-W valley with the stream c. 170m to the N. The chapel of Hoel of Karrothobren (Carrickbyrne) is mentioned in the description of the boundaries of the forest of Ross in a charter of Richard Marshal dated 1232-3 (Orpen 1934, 55), and it may have been the parish church of a parish that was subsumed into Adamstown parish by the 17th century and later into Newbawn parish. A small cairn (dims. 2m x 2m; H 0.8m) and the pointed head of a slit window is all that remains of the church, but there is also a granite bullaun stone (dims. 0.5m x 0.35m; H 0.25-0.3m) with a single basin (diam. 0.25-0.3m; D 0.1m) at the cairn. Nearby there is a shale cross (H 1.92m; Wth 0.57m; T 0.04-0.15m) with a wide stem (Wth 0.42m; H 1.35m), short arms (Wth 0.24-0.26m; L 0.1m) and a wheel-shaped head (diam. 0.47m) that has a slightly raised centre (diam. 0.27m) with a simple incised cross on the E face. These are within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 40m E-W; c. 35m N-S) defined by earthen banks with an external stone facing on all sides except the W where there is a masonry wall at the roadside. The site of Tobermurry well (WX035-011----) is c. 170m to the N. Archaeological testing (97E0054) on the other side of the road failed to produce any related material (Henry 1998). 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: 23 October, 2012

• WX035-012002 Graveyard
  Description

  Located at the NW foothills of Carrickbyrne Hill, and at the S edge of a small E-W valley with the stream c. 170m to the N. The chapel of Hoel (WX035-012001-) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 40m E-W; c. 35m N-S) defined by earthen banks with external stone-facing on all sides except the W where there is a masonry wall at the roadside. The site of Tobermurry well (WX035-011----) is c. 170m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 October, 2012

• WX035-012003 Bullaun stone
  Description

  There is a granite bullaun stone (dims. 0.5m x 0.35m; H 0.25-0.3m) with a single basin (diam. 0.25-0.3m; D 0.1m) within the rectangular graveyard (WX035-012002-) of Courthoyle. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 Octiber, 2012

• WX035-012004 Architectural fragment
  Description

  A small cairn (dims. 2m x 2m; H 0.8m) and the pointed head of a slit window is all that remains of the church of Hoyle (WX035-012001-) within a rectangular graveyard (WX035-012002-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 October, 2012

• WX035-012005 Cross
  Description

  Within Courhoyle graveyard (WX035-012002-) there is a shale cross (H 1.92m; Wth 0.57m; T 0.04-0.15m) with a wide stem (Wth 0.42m; H 1.35m), short arms (Wth 0.24-0.26m; L 0.1m) and a wheel-shaped head (diam. 0.47m) that has a slightly raised centre (diam. 0.27m) with a simple incised cross on the E face. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 October, 2012

• WX035-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle W-facing slope at the W foothills of Carrickbyrne Hill. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims. 50m E-W; 44m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-7m; int. H 1.5-2m; ext H 1.4-1.8m) supporting mature deciduous and coniferous trees that is reduced to a scarp (H 1.4m) W-NW. There is a gap (Wth 8m) at N but the original entrance (Wth 2.2m) is at SE. There is no visible fosse. Archaeological testing (05E1135) immediately to the NE revealed a NW-SE ditch (Wth 1.8-.3m; d 0.25m) that might have been associated with the rath although 45m from it (Henry 2008), but further monitoring (05E1135 ext.) by Mary Henry failed to produce any further evidence (Henry 2009). 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: 15 October, 2012

• WX035-014001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a gentle W-facing slope at the W foothills of Carrickbyrne Hill, and at the S edge of the ringwork (WX035-014002-). The Howel family were in Ireland since at least 1180 and held Carrickbyrne by half a knight’s fee from Valence into the 15th century, by which time it had passed to the Walshes of the Mountain at Castlehale, Co. Kilkenny (KK031-026----), with whom they shared an ancestor in Stephen Howel in the late 13th century (Brooks 1950, 100-01). In 1619 Walter Walshe possessed at his death Castlehale in Co. Kilkenny as well as Courthoyle, Raheenaclonagh, Rahindoy (Raheenduff?), and Raherry (Raheevarren?) (Jeffrey 1979, 200). The castle and 500 acres at Courthoyle was owned by Robert Devereux n 1640 of Ballyshannon (WX035-016----) together with 500 acres in Raheenaclonagh and Raheenduff in Adamstown parish (Simington 1953, 202-03). Only the ground floor and the first floor under the collapsed E-W barrel vault remains (ext. dims. 10.3m E-W; 7.8m N-S) but the walls have good granite quoins and a base batter. The original doorway may have been in the E wall where the embrasure is broken out in a wide opening. There is a newel stairs, now destroyed, at the SE angle. There is evidence of six long loops or squints on the three surviving ground floor embrasures and there is a cross-loop on the stairwell. There is a destroyed garderobe chute in the N wall. There are corbels in the N and S walls to support the first floor and a rectangular window survives in the W wall. There is an embrasure with a lintelled floor and destroyed window at the E end of the N wall, and there is a curious hinge stone at the N end of the E wall. See the attached section from the Down Survey (1656-8) parish map (N at top right) 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: 15 October, 2012

• WX035-014002 Castle - ringwork
  Description

  Marked as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 90m E-W; c. 70m N-S) impinged on by farm buildings at the W and S and with the tower house (WX035-014001-) on the perimeter at S on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a gentle W-facing slope at the W foothills of Carrickbyrne Hill. There is no evidence of an enclosure at a developed farm complex, but it is described locally as a low earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; H c. 0.5m) that survived until c. 1970 when a possible souterrain was found running NE from the tower house. This is described as a passage in which a person could crouch, but it may have been a drain. The enclosure may have been a ring-work as the ‘house of Hoyle of Karrothobren (Carrickbyrne)’ is mentioned in a description of the boundary of Ross wood in a charter of Richard Marshal dated 1232-3 (Orpen 1934, 55). The Howel family were in Ireland since at least 1180 and held Carrickbyrne by half a knight’s fee into the 15th century (Brooks 1950, 100-01). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 October, 2012

• WX035-014003 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated on a gentle W-facing slope at the W foothills of Carrickbyrne Hill. There is no evidence of the enclosure (WX035-012001-) at a developed farm complex, but there are local descriptions of a possible souterrain that was found c. 1970 running NE from the tower house. This is described as a stone-built passage in which a person could crouch, but it could be a drain assoiciated with the tower house. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 October, 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Courthoyle Old.

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

Name

Courthoyle Old · Seanchúirt Héil

Area

1,516,130 m² (151.61 ha, 374.64 acres)

Civil parish

Newbawn, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Carrickbyrne, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrickbyrne electoral division: 618 people in 207 households; 86% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagrallagh, Carrigadaggan, Courthoyle New, Moorfields, Raheevarren, Scullaboge

Placenames

Courthoyle Old 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.