# Muchtown, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcowan, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Baile Mór. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 308,286 m² (30.83 ha, 76.18 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 19,057 m² (1.91 ha, 4.71 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcowan, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/kilcowan.md - Barony: Bargy - Electoral division: Kilcowan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 525 people lived in 204 households in the Kilcowan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/53978 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241756 - Centre: latitude 52.236118, longitude -6.59672 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muchtown, from 7,968 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres) to 151,542 m² (15.15 ha, 37.45 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 423855: 151,542 m² (15.15 ha, 37.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/423855.md - Parcel 416661: 64,002 m² (6.4 ha, 15.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/416661.md - Parcel 409490: 27,531 m² (2.75 ha, 6.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/409490.md - Parcel 401736: 19,057 m² (1.91 ha, 4.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/401736.md - Parcel 388602: 13,564 m² (1.36 ha, 3.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/388602.md - Parcel 417597: 9,814 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/417597.md - Parcel 388277: 7,968 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/388277.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Muchtown 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. - 19 Aug 2019, Wexford County Council 20191168: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/110633 - 15 Jul 2016, Wexford County Council 20160811: Refused. Permission. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY CONSISTING OF UP TO 88600M2 OF SOL. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/102038 - 12 Jul 2016, Wexford County Council 20160793: N/a. Permission. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY CONSISTING OF UP TO 88,600 M2 OF S. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/102018 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 Muchtown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Muchtown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Muchtown Bridge, bridge, 1700–1840, Regional interest, registry number 15704640, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15704640. Three-arch road bridge over stream, extant 1840. Part creeper- or ivy-covered walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers to upriver (north) elevation on mass concrete battered plinths with rubble stone soldier course coping to parapets. Series of there segmental arches with lichen-spotted voussoirs. Sited spanning stream with unkempt banks to stream. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Muchtown, about 1 in 10 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: the Geological Survey did not answer. - Terrain model: the Geological Survey did not answer. - 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/muchtown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/muchtown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/muchtown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Muchtown 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) - Kilcowan Lower: https://everytownland.com/wexford/kilcowan-lower.md - Kilcowan Upper: https://everytownland.com/wexford/kilcowan-upper.md - Ralphtown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ralphtown.md - Rathangan: https://everytownland.com/wexford/rathangan.md - Robinstown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/robinstown.md - Shanoo: https://everytownland.com/wexford/shanoo.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/muchtown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/muchtown