Deeps

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Deeps, from 47 m² to 267,423 m² (26.74 ha, 66.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Deeps 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.

• 19 Jul 2017Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF A STEEL PORTAL FRAMED AGRICULTURAL

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170944

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
• Special Protection Area: Wexford Harbour and Slobs SPA 004076
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slaney River Valley 000781

Recorded monuments

• WX032-026 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Fernegenel, amounting almost to the barony of Shelmeliere East, was granted by Strongbow to Maurice de Prendergast, but it was held for five knight’s fees by Gerard de Rupe (Roche) from William Valence in 1247, and by George de Rupe in 1324 (Brooks 1950, 145-51). However, Deeps may not have been part of the grant as in 1395 Richard II granted much of the Valence lands in Wexford between the River Slaney and the River Blackwater at Arklow to John de Beaumont, excluding the lands of established lords including the Roches. The Beaumont possessions were later named and included Dipps. Beaumont’s lands returned to the crown in 1485 (ibid. 6-7). The Devereux family became occupiers in the late 16th century and probably re-built the upper storeys of the castle (O’Callaghan 1969, 29). In 1641 Phillip Devereux owned 560 acres in Tikillen parish at Newtown, Castlesow, Ballydicken and Deeps where there was a large castle (Simington 1953, 111). In January 1650 the castle was captured by colonels Cooke and Shelburne for Cromwell, and the property subsequently passed to Francis Randall (Jeffrey 1970, 49), who was a Quaker and is said to have succoured James II on his journey into exile (O’Callaghan 1969, 31-2). The Edermine Meeting to which Randall belonged met at his house until it moved to Forest (WX036-061----), near Taghmon, in 1666 (Goodbody 1971-2, 37; Butler 2004, 64). Deeps had passed to the Frayne family by 1726, probably throught marriage, and the Fraynes may have occupied the castle to the end of that century. It is situated on the S bank of the N-S River Slaney at a point where the river begins a loop to the W, with the stream c. 10m to the N. This is a rectangular structure of three storeys and attic (ext. dims. 15.8m NE-SW; 12.65m NW-SE) with a base-batter on every wall except the re-built NE wall. The N angle and buttresses are recent, and much of the NE and NW walls does not survive. There are two barrel vaulted chambers lacking lofts aligned NW-SE at ground level, but the vaults are now destroyed. These chambers have separate round headed entrances of undressed stone on their SE walls; that on the NE is now blocked, but the SW doorway is protected by a murder-hole. The NE chamber has single lights on all outside walls, but the SW chamber has one light on the NW wall and a large fireplace in the SW wall. A mural stairs in the SE wall of the SW chamber, and a newel stairs at the E angle of the NE chamber lead through lintelled doorways to first floor, which is a single chamber with a fireplace placed centrally on the NW and SW walls. There is a large mullion and transom window, now blocked and probably one of two, in the NW wall facing the river, and there are two small lights in embrasures in the SW wall. A destroyed doorway in the S angle and a lintelled doorway to a small chamber towards the N end of the SE wall may lead to garderobes, but a lintelled doorway at the centre of the SE wall leads to a chamber that commands the murder-hole. The ceiling was supported on granite corbels in the long walls. The newel stairs at the E angle continue to the second floor, which has a large mullion and transom window at the centre of the SE wall, two destroyed examples with traces of hood-mouldings on the SW wall and two destroyed examples on the NW wall. In addition lintelled doorways lead to small chambers with single lights that are probably garderobes at the S angle and towards either end of the SE wall. The walls are rebated to support the ceiling. The newel stairs at the E angle continue to the attic and there is evidence of windows in the NE and SW gables, the latter with hood mouldings, and there was at least one window on the NW wall attached to the chimney stack. The chimney stack in the SW wall has two complete diamond-shaped Jacobean-style flues. 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 2007

• WX032-027 Cist
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of a N-facing slope. One cist containing a cremation and a possible food vessel, together with other possible burials, were destroyed in sand quarrying in 1951 (Hartnett, P.J. and Prendergast, E. 1953, 57). 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: 31 August, 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Deeps.

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

Name

Deeps · Na Doimhneacha

Area

701,898 m² (70.19 ha, 173.44 acres)

Civil parish

Tikillin, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere East

Electoral division

Kilpatrick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilpatrick electoral division: 762 people in 260 households; 90% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydicken Lower, Ballydicken Upper, Newtown Lower, Newtown Upper

Placenames

Deeps 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.