Davidstown

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Davidstown, from 81 m² to 134,618 m² (13.46 ha, 33.26 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 Davidstown 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.

• 12 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241113

• 15 Feb 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for dwelling house with associated works also for a green house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240155

• 12 Jan 2022Refused

  Permission for the erection of two fully serviced dwelling houses in a cluster

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220017

• 13 Dec 2021N/a

  Permission for the erection of two fully serviced dwelling houses in a cluster

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211945

• 30 Nov 2021N/a

  Permission for the erection of two fully serviced dwelling houses in a cluster

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211867

• 12 May 2021Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR A SOLAR PV FARM WITH AN EXPORT CAPACITY OF 5MW COMPRISING APPROXI

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20160487

• 31 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development - the proposed development consiste of minor amendmen

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210464

• 4 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190436

• 5 Feb 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190140

• 15 Aug 2018Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181118

• 16 Jul 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180964

• 13 Jun 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT BUILDINGS AND THE CONSTRUCTIO

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180806

• 22 Aug 2017Granted (unconditional)

  ERECTION OF TWO FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSES IN A CLUSTER TYPE ARRANGEMENT TOG

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20120250

• 2 Aug 2016Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION OF EXISTING FRONT PORCH AND ALSO PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF EXISTING

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160870

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 Davidstown.

Recorded monuments

• WX025-022 Moated site
  Description

  Marked as a rectangular embanked or moated site on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and located on a gentle SW-facing slope with a small N-S stream c. 100m to the W. This is a square area (c. 30m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by the remains of infilled moats (Wth 4-7m; D 0.1-0.2m). (Barry 1977, 219, WX 53) 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: 3 July, 2012

Architectural heritage

• Gates/railings/walls, 1790–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, extant 1840, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of part creeper- or ivy-covered piers having cut-granite capping centred on bellcote-topped pointed-arch opening with red brick voussoirs framing arrow head-detailed wrought iron double gates. Road fronted.

• Saint David's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1856, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (east) front. "Improved", 1934, producing present composition. Renovated, 1956, with interior "improved". Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), moss-covered cut-granite "slated" coping to gables on trefoil-detailed gabled "Cavetto" kneelers including moss-covered cut-granite "slated" coping to gable to chancel (west) on trefoil-detailed gabled "Cavetto" kneelers with granite ashlar buttressed gabled bellcote to apex framing cast-bronze bell, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part repointed tuck pointed snecked rubble stone walls with benchmark-inscribed cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-granite Y-mullions, and cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Cusped lancet window openings (west) with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pair of lancet window openings to entrance (east) front with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch window opening (porch) with cut-granite Y-mullion, and cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch opposing door openings to "cheeks" with cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing timber boarded doors. Interior including vestibule (east); square-headed door opening into nave with replacement glazed timber double doors; full-height interior open into roof with carpeted aisles between cruciform-detailed timber pews, grouped Gothic-style timber stations, cut-white marble scroll wall monuments (ob. 1874; 1892) with pair of cut-white marble Gothic-style wall monuments (ob. 1860; 1898), cut-veined white marble stepped dais to sanctuary (west) reordered, ----, with arcaded communion railings centred on cut-veined pink marble panelled altar (1931), and exposed braced scissor truss timber roof construction on cut-granite beaded corbels with wind braced rafters to plywood sheeted ceiling. Set in landscaped grounds with granite ashlar piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting replacement mild steel double gates.

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 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 Davidstown.

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

Name

Davidstown · Baile Dháith

Area

1,183,778 m² (118.38 ha, 292.52 acres)

Civil parish

Rossdroit, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

The Leap, the unit of the census

Census 2022

The Leap electoral division: 1,029 people in 355 households; 86% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyeland, Ballygillistown, Ballyknockan, Boolabaun, Clough, Coolamurry, Garr, Stonepark

Placenames

Davidstown 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.