# Muckstown, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tacumshin, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Mhoic. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 188,045 m² (18.8 ha, 46.47 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,185 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Tacumshin, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/tacumshin.md - Barony: Forth - Electoral division: Tacumshin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 507 people lived in 204 households in the Tacumshin electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54441 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241760 - Centre: latitude 52.221291, longitude -6.418491 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muckstown, from 638 m² to 172,935 m² (17.29 ha, 42.73 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 404180: 172,935 m² (17.29 ha, 42.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/404180.md - Parcel 4883791: 5,273 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4883791.md - Parcel 4891760: 3,317 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4891760.md - Parcel 410029: 2,185 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/410029.md - Parcel 416663: 674 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/416663.md - Parcel 3134087: 670 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3134087.md - Parcel 3134186: 638 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3134186.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Muckstown 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) 1 application, newest first. - 5 May 2016, Wexford County Council 20160467: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE AND DOMESTIC OU. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/101524 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 Muckstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WX048-118: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX048-118----. Located on a level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 3-6m) is visible on aerial photographs (MM (5) 25-6; (44) 1-3, 12). It is slightly truncated by a N-S farm road at W. 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. Compilded by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 8 January, 2014 - WX048-149: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX048-149----. Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 30m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX048-149_1 to _6) taken in July 2006. The cropmarks of regular field drains are connected to it, and it may be a small field. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 8 January, 2014 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Muckstown. ## 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 Muckstown, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Muckstown. - 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/muckstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/muckstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/muckstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Muckstown 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) - Bennettstown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/bennettstown.md - Coldblow: https://everytownland.com/wexford/coldblow-240835.md - Cumshinstown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/cumshinstown.md - Hardyglass: https://everytownland.com/wexford/hardyglass.md - Heaths: https://everytownland.com/wexford/heaths.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/muckstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/muckstown