Ralph
Ralph is a townland in the civil parish of Fethard, barony of Shelburne, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Ráth.
- Area
- 117.4 ha
- 290 acres
- Land parcels
- 60
- registered freehold, median 2,637 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ralph, from 528 m² to 363,385 m² (36.34 ha, 89.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Ralph 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
3 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260403
31 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of existing domestic garage/store as built and
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231303
11 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for an ecotourism farm diversification development, consisting of the
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210919
23 Jul 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a steel storage bay to side of existing workshop
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200819
2 Jul 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT, THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF CONSTRUCTING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190934
14 Nov 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE RETENTION OF A SIDE EXTENSION AND THE RETENTION OF A REAR
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20181560
13 Nov 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE REAR OF DWELLING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181552
29 Aug 2018Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC WORKSHOP TO THE REAR OF MY HOME AT RAL
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181172
21 Jun 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170793
5 Apr 2017Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC WORK
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170406
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Bannow Bay SAC 000697
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bannow Bay 000697
Recorded monuments
- WX050-008 Enclosure
Description
Located on a slight N-facing slope. Traces of an enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single feature is visible on the vertical aerial photographs (GSIAP: S 3/4), but it is not visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 12 February, 2014
- WX050-010 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located towards the top of a slight E-facing slope. This is a circular scrub-covered area (diam. c. 35m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H c. 0.8m; max. ext. H 2.3m at W) with an external flat bottomed fosse (Wth of base 2.4m; ext. D 1.9m at W). The fosse is less distinct towards the E side (D 0.8m). There is no visible entrance. 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: 12 February, 2014
- WX050-020 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a S-facing slope with a small W-E stream c. 100m to the S. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (27) 19-21), and (ASIAP (101) 3-5) from 2000. 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: 12 February, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ralph.
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 Ralph, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ralph.
- 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
- Ralph, Fethard on Sea5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ralph · An Ráth
- Area
- 1,173,832 m² (117.38 ha, 290.06 acres)
- Civil parish
- Fethard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelburne
- Electoral division
- Fethard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 972 people lived in 387 households in the Fethard electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 36% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Connagh, Fethard, Graigue Little, Haggard, Lambstown
- Placenames
- Ralph 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.