Jacketstown
Jacketstown is a townland in the civil parish of Drinagh, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Sheaicéid.
- Area
- 45.1 ha
- 111 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 6,027 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Jacketstown, from 251 m² to 207,338 m² (20.73 ha, 51.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Jacketstown 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
21 Nov 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of alterations to the following items
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241443
15 Nov 2024N/a
Permission for retention of alterations to the following items as approved
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241413
6 Sept 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for new 2 bed (100sq/m) self contained dwelling unit/extension to
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231059
1 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of an extension to the existing Driving Ran
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211689
10 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A 2 STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190469
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Wexford Slobs And Harbour 000712
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Jacketstown.
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three- or four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey gabled windbreak. Occupied, 1990. Vacated, 2004. Now disused. Hipped oat thatch roof overhanging lean-to roofs to window openings to dormer attic with chicken wire-covered degraded stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, central chimney stack now missing, and exposed wire stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls with limewashed buttress to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed off-central door opening in round-headed recess with concealed dressings including timber lintel framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in courtyard.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Jacketstown, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3098 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Jacketstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Jacketstown · Baile Sheaicéid
- Area
- 450,651 m² (45.07 ha, 111.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drinagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Drinagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,114 people lived in 404 households in the Drinagh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bogganstown Lower, Bogganstown Upper, Drinagh Intake, Killiane, Rosslare Intake, Rowestown, Whitestown Lower or Hermitage
- Placenames
- Jacketstown 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.