Harperstown

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Harperstown, from 95 m² to 294,859 m² (29.49 ha, 72.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Harperstown 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.

• 11 Aug 2023Refused

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

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230929

• 18 Dec 2020Refused

  Permission for change of use from games room to residential unit

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201582

• 15 Dec 2020N/a

  Permission for change of use from games room to residential unit together with a

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201553

• 7 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for (a) The retention of the existing games room and domestic garage,

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201490

• 25 Feb 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE RETENTION OF UNAUTHORISED SUN ROOM

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190239

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 Harperstown.

Recorded monuments

• WX041-024001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  According to Hore (1900-11, vol. 5, 428-9) David le Harpur held three caracutes of the de Valence property in 1323-4 but it passed to the Hore family through the marriage of his daughter, Agatha, to William Hore of Horetown (WX041-048----) in 1309, and the Hores retained it thereafter. References to the castle date from 1526 (Jeffrey 1979, 76 7), and William Hore owned the castle and 120 acres at Harperstown in 1640 (Simington 1953, 143, 163), but he also owned 360 acres with Traceystown castle (WX041-002----) and 300 acres with Ardenagh castle (WX041-020----) in Taghmon parish (ibid. 84). It is situated on a gentle W-facing slope. Parts of the castle were said to be incorporated into Harperstown House (Hore 1900-11, vol. 5, 428-9), but no remains of a medieval structure is visible in the ruins of what was probably an 18th century mansion. 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: 19 March, 2013

• WX041-024002 Church
  Description

  Situated on gentle W-facing slope. A gable that survived at Harperstown House into the 19th century was thought to have been from a chapel associated with Harperstown Castle (WX041-024001-) (Jeffrey 1979, 76-7), but it does not survive in the remains of what is probably an 18th century house, and its location and classification is uncertain.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Harperstown.

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

Name

Harperstown · Baile an Harpúraigh

Area

1,511,923 m² (151.19 ha, 373.6 acres)

Civil parish

Taghmon, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Harperstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Harperstown electoral division: 560 people in 185 households; 91% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughfad, Aughnagan, Harveystown, Newtown, Waddingtown, Youngstown

Placenames

Harperstown 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.