Hillburn
Townland in the civil parish of Taghmon, barony of Shelmaliere West, Co. Wexford; in Irish Sruthán an Chnoic
- Area
- 47.4 ha
- 117 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 64,810 m² (6.48 ha, 16.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hillburn, from 82 m² to 247,749 m² (24.77 ha, 61.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Hillburn 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
No planning application touches the townland of Hillburn in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Hillburn.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Hillburn.
Architectural heritage
- Hillburn House, farm house, 1790–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey over part raised basement farmhouse, dated 1795, on a square plan centred on prostyle distyle Tuscan portico to ground floor; three-bay full-height rear (north) elevation. Damaged, 1798. Vacant, 1815. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1969. Restored, 1970. Hipped slate roof with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, cement rendered red brick Running bond central chimney stack on axis with ridge having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged stepped eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast wall to front (south) elevation bellcast over cement rendered plinth; pigmented lime rendered slate hung surface finish (remainder) bellcast over cement rendered plinth. Bisected round-headed central door opening behind prostyle distyle Tuscan portico approached by flight of seven cut-granite steps between wrought iron railings with cut-granite columns having responsive pilasters supporting creeper- or ivy-covered cornice on blind frieze on architrave, and cut-granite surround centred on keystone framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing reclaimed three-over-three (basement), six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows without horns. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered, ruled and lined piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting ovoid-detailed wrought iron 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Hillburn.
- 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
No address of the register names Hillburn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Hillburn · Sruthán an Chnoic
- Area
- 473,670 m² (47.37 ha, 117.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taghmon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelmaliere West
- Electoral division
- Horetown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Horetown electoral division: 678 people in 213 households; 82% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonerane, Shawstown, Tottenhamgreen, Tracystown West
- Placenames
- Hillburn 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.