Houseland

201 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Houseland, from 3 m² to 440,607 m² (44.06 ha, 108.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Houseland 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.

• 26 Mar 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the installation of a new treatment plant and a sand filter

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250338

• 5 Jul 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a single storey extension to the existing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240800

• 31 May 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention of a games and amenity building ancillary to an

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230614

• 16 Dec 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention for alterations to previously granted planning 20201321

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221676

• 12 Dec 2022N/a

  Permission for retention for alterations to previously granted planning 20201321

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221646

• 22 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for installation of windows & roof windows to existing attic storage

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220220

• 7 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the development of a fully serviced dwelling with domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220135

• 17 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a sunroom to the sideof my home and all

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211465

• 26 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for extention to existing dwelling by conversionof attic space and er

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211196

• 29 Mar 2021Refused

  Permission for the development of a fully serviced dwelling house with

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210455

• 10 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a change of house type from previously granted planning 20200047

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201321

• 20 Jan 2020Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200047

• 22 Aug 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR OF DWELLING

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171122

• 8 Aug 2017N/a

  PERMISSION FOR A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF MY DWELLING

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171055

• 29 Nov 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HO

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161325

• 25 Oct 2016Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION OF CHANGE OF USE OF A DWELLING HOUSE TO A RECEPTION AREA FOR ADJOINING

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20161188

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: Hook Head SAC 000764
• Special Protection Area: Seas off Wexford cSPA 004237
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Hook Head 000764

Recorded monuments

• WX049-012001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a slight S-facing slope. This is a possible Catholic church marked faintly as a rectangular feature (dims c. 10m x c. 10m) and described in italic lettering as the 'Site of R.C. Chapel' on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. On a map of 1771 it is in an area called Heuclus, which could be a corruption of the Gaelic Eaglis – meaning a church (Hore 1900-11, vol. 4, 349-50). The foundations were visible c. 1900 (ibid. vol. 4, 345-6) but there are no visible remains now of a structure, enclosure or burials at ground level in pasture. The site of St Helen's Well (WX049-012002-) is nearby. 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. Date of upload/revision: 4 February 2014 Amended: 28 March, 2014

• WX049-012002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated on a slight S-facing slope. A well is marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering on both as St. Helen’s Well. According to Hore (1900-11, vol. 4, 345-6) the dedication was to St. Helen, the mother of Constantine who was the first Roman emperor to embrace Christianity in the early 4th century. She did not convert until late in life after Constantine, fighting under the sign of the Chi-Rho of Christ’s monogram, had defeated the Emperor Maxentius at the battle of Milvian Bridge on the river Tiber in AD 312. Helen devoted the rest of her days to church building in the Holy Land, and discovered the remains of the True Cross on Mount Calvary. She died in 326 or 328 AD. Her feast day is celebrated on August 18 (Butler 1883, 117), but there is no record of a pattern at this site. The well is not visible at ground level in rough pasture. Church site (WX049-012001-) is c. 10m to the NW .Archaeological monitoring (01E0118) c. 100m to the S at the closest point produced no related material (Moran 2001; excavations.ie 2001:1301). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 February, 2014 Amended: 1 December 2020

• WX049-013 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Located on a slight S-facing slope. References to Houseland, then called Northtown as the most northerly townland in Hook parish, date from 1471 when Andrew FitzRedmond held a messuage or house and 80 acres there (Hore 1900-11, vol. 4, 347-8). Hook parish was part of the Templar, and after 1312 the Hospitaller, manor of Kilcloggan. At the Suppression in 1541 Henry Keating possessed 30 acres and the castle at Hounsland (ibid. 285). By 1640 Houseland had become the property of Nicholas Loftus (ibid 350). The castle is described as a tower of four storeys with a vaulted ground floor and a newel stairs (Jeffrey 1979, 151-2). Today, the foundation course of a rectangular structure (ext. dims 5.95m E-W; 5.77m N-S) with an entrance (Wth 0.62m), or perhaps the outlet of a garderobe chute, towards the W end of the N wall and a rubble cairn (diam. 15m; H 1-1.6m) are the only visible remains at ground level. 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: 4 February 2014

• WX049-019 Windmill
  Description

  This feature is not marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and it is situated on a SE-facing slope. Only the S portion of this conical tower survives to the top of fourth floor with opposing doorways (ext. diam. 8.7m; int. diam. 6.85m at base). This is an industrialised pre-fabricated mill imported from the United States and built c. 1890 (Colfer 2004, 57, Fig. 46 E). 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: 4 February 2014

• WX049-024 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Situated on a SE-facing slope. Archaeological monitoring (05N0123) identified an oval pit (dims 3.15m N-S; 1.65m E-W; D 0.3m plus), the upper part of which was filled with brown silty clay that had charcoal flecks and some stones. The feature was preserved in situ (Kearns and Noonan 2005, 8). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 February, 2014

Architectural heritage

• Mill (wind), 1842–1902 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of freestanding single-bay four-stage conical windmill tower, extant 1902, on a circular plan. In ruins, 1922. Roof now missing. Rendered battered walls over coursed rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with rough hewn shallow sills, and concealed dressings including rough hewn lintels with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins with lichen-covered cut-granite beaded corbels (upper stages). Set in unkempt grounds.

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 high, 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 Houseland.

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

Name

Houseland · Fearann Habha

Area

1,351,840 m² (135.18 ha, 334.05 acres)

Civil parish

Templetown, and its townlands

Barony

Shelburne

Electoral division

Templetown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Templetown electoral division: 840 people in 261 households; 82% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 35% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Graigue Great, Portersgate, Templetown

Placenames

Houseland 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.