# Hightown, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Duncormick, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Baile Ard. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 332,536 m² (33.25 ha, 82.17 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,846 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Duncormick, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/duncormick.md - Barony: Bargy - Electoral division: Harperstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/53925 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241313 - Centre: latitude 52.278602, longitude -6.641771 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hightown, from 603 m² to 104,810 m² (10.48 ha, 25.9 acres); 6 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 363006: 104,810 m² (10.48 ha, 25.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/363006.md - Parcel 375578: 58,954 m² (5.9 ha, 14.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/375578.md - Parcel 5019946: 46,224 m² (4.62 ha, 11.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5019946.md - Parcel 379523: 28,417 m² (2.84 ha, 7.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/379523.md - Parcel 407724: 27,522 m² (2.75 ha, 6.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/407724.md - Parcel 2563262: 25,303 m² (2.53 ha, 6.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2563262.md - Parcel 2418219: 10,463 m² (1.05 ha, 2.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2418219.md - Parcel 374171: 5,240 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/374171.md - Parcel 405597: 5,140 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/405597.md - Parcel 369540: 4,552 m² (0.46 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/369540.md - Parcel 2641395: 2,834 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2641395.md - Parcel 369538: 2,515 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/369538.md - Parcel 2418229: 2,372 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2418229.md - Parcel 2418252: 2,252 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2418252.md - Parcel 2418249: 2,202 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2418249.md - Parcel 371267: 1,246 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/371267.md - Parcel 4650754: 654 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4650754.md - Parcel 4650760: 603 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4650760.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Hightown in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 9 Nov 2020, Wexford County Council 20201309: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission for retention for an existing domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/117800 - 9 Nov 2020, Wexford County Council 20201310: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission for retention of an extension to the side of an existing dwelling hou. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/117802 - 18 Mar 2016, Wexford County Council 20160275: Granted (conditional). Permission. PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOM. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/101233 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Hightown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Hightown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Hightown. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Hightown. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wexford/hightown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/hightown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/hightown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Hightown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Garrison: https://everytownland.com/wexford/garrison.md - Moortown Little: https://everytownland.com/wexford/moortown-little-241726.md - Rochestown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/rochestown-242005.md - Waddingtown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/waddingtown.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wexford/hightown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/hightown