# Petitstown, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Mayglass, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile an Pheitidigh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 292,647 m² (29.26 ha, 72.31 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,200 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Mayglass, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/mayglass.md
- Barony: Forth
- Electoral division: Mayglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 600 people lived in 195 households in the Mayglass electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54266
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241865
- Centre: latitude 52.248947, longitude -6.490451 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Petitstown, from 100 m² to 59,675 m² (5.97 ha, 14.75 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 422276: 59,675 m² (5.97 ha, 14.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/422276.md
- Parcel 373811: 45,015 m² (4.5 ha, 11.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/373811.md
- Parcel 388064: 42,957 m² (4.3 ha, 10.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/388064.md
- Parcel 361534: 28,184 m² (2.82 ha, 6.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/361534.md
- Parcel 379316: 27,685 m² (2.77 ha, 6.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/379316.md
- Parcel 364716: 12,250 m² (1.22 ha, 3.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/364716.md
- Parcel 4621805: 11,652 m² (1.17 ha, 2.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4621805.md
- Parcel 366598: 10,820 m² (1.08 ha, 2.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/366598.md
- Parcel 4551214: 10,700 m² (1.07 ha, 2.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4551214.md
- Parcel 406136: 5,675 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/406136.md
- Parcel 4977979: 4,026 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4977979.md
- Parcel 388065: 3,300 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/388065.md
- Parcel 373887: 3,100 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/373887.md
- Parcel 420632: 2,279 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/420632.md
- Parcel 400307: 2,273 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/400307.md
- Parcel 412589: 2,194 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/412589.md
- Parcel 366755: 2,068 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/366755.md
- Parcel 2729487: 2,040 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2729487.md
- Parcel 2562903: 1,895 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2562903.md
- Parcel 2444150: 1,739 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2444150.md
- Parcel 408288: 1,367 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/408288.md
- Parcel 425869: 855 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/425869.md
- Parcel 415869: 417 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/415869.md
- Parcel 414834: 100 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/414834.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Petitstown 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.

- 3 Sept 2021, Wexford County Council 20211412: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and all assoc. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/122087

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 Petitstown.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- WX047-016001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX047-016001-. Located in a slight hollow in a gently undulating landscape. The church is depicted as a small rectangular structure described as St. Catherine’s Chapel in gothic lettering within a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 40m NE-SW; c. 30m N-W) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This is a possible Catholic church of the Penal era as it is not listed by Synnott writing c. 1680 about neglected churches in Forth (Hore 1862, 66-9; Hore 1921, 57-61). The church is sited within a raised D-shaped grass and scrub-covered area (dims. 43m E-W; 32m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1.8-2m) and a slight outer fosse (Wth of base 2-2.4m; D 0.6m at W to 1.6m at E) that was a rath which is truncated at S by the E-W Rosslare to Waterford railway line. The church is a rectangular structure (ext. dims 6.2m E-W; 4.9m N-S) defined by low earthen banks (max. H 0.5m), with outer fosses or ditches (Wth 2.1m; max. D 0.4m). There is no evidence of burial. St Catherine's Well (WX047-017----) is c. 220m to the SSE. 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: 17 October, 2013
- WX047-016002: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX047-016002-. Located in a slight hollow in a gently undulating landscape. The possible Catholic church (WX047-016001-) is within a raised D-shaped grass and scrub-covered area (dims. 43m E-W; 32m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1.8-2m) and a slight outer fosse (Wth of base 2-2.4m; D 0.6m at W to 1.6m at E) that was a rath which is truncated at S by the E-W Rosslare to Waterford railway line. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 October, 2013
- WX047-017: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX047-017----. Situated on a level landscape and just 8m NW of the NE-SW R739 Wexford town to Kilmore Quay road. It is marked on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering on both as St. Catherine’s Well. It is a rectangular feature (dims 1.15m x 1.1m; D 1.45m) defined by a concrete wall open on one side, and has water (D 0.7m) with an overflow pipe. A whitethorn tree stands over it, but there is no evidence of veneration. St. Catherine’s chapel (WX047-016001-) is c. 220m to the NNW, The saint is probably St. Catherine of Alexandria. She was a 4th century savant who converted some pagan philosophers. When persecuted on a rack the wheels miraculously fell off the machine – hence she is always represented with a wheel. Eventually she was burned by her persecutors. Her remains were discovered in Egypt in the 8th century and miraculously translated to Mt. Sinai where her monastery continues to this day. Some of her relics came to Europe in the 11th century resulting in the popularisation of her cult. In 1969 she was removed from the Calendar by the Roman Catholic Church, but she was restored in 2002. (Butler, Rev. A 1883, 169) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 October, 2013 Amended: 14 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)

- Farm house, 1700–1840, Regional interest, registry number 15704759, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX&regno=15704759. Detached three-bay single-storey farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having chamfered capping, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on limewashed rendered eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed rendered battered walls. Segmental-headed central door opening over overgrown threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with lichen-spotted sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in unkempt grounds.

## 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 Petitstown, 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.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Petitstown.
- 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/petitstown.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/petitstown.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/petitstown.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Petitstown 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)

- Ballycogly: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballycogly.md
- Ballynaas Great: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballynaas-great.md
- Ballynaas Little: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballynaas-little.md
- Braestown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/braestown.md
- Cooloughter: https://everytownland.com/wexford/cooloughter.md
- Crosstown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/crosstown-241002.md
- Mountpleasant or Tagunnan: https://everytownland.com/wexford/mountpleasant-or-tagunnan.md
- Walshestown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/walshestown-242272.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.

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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.

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