Halseyrath
Townland in the civil parish of Ambrosetown, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford; in Irish Ráth an Choill
- Area
- 53.4 ha
- 132 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 2,869 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Halseyrath, from 99 m² to 185,446 m² (18.54 ha, 45.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Halseyrath 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Jul 2026N/a
Permission for retention for A) the existing dwelling and storage shed
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260939
3 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced modular type dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251256
15 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an extension to an existing dwelling house to inc
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210548
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Halseyrath.
Recorded monuments
- WX046-006 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in the valley of a N-S stream that is immediately to the E. It is not visible at ground level in a developed farmyard. 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 Marked as a circular enclosure on 1841 OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Halseyrath.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Halseyrath.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Halseyrath, Duncormick5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Halseyrath · Ráth an Choill
- Area
- 533,669 m² (53.37 ha, 131.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ambrosetown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bargy
- Electoral division
- Harristown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Harristown electoral division: 556 people in 211 households; 80% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Commons, Holmanhill, Knockbine, Maxboley, Tullycanna, Walshgraigue, Woodgraigue
- Placenames
- Halseyrath 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.