# Ralphtown, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcowan, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile an Rátha. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 629,930 m² (62.99 ha, 155.66 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 20,283 m² (2.03 ha, 5.01 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 14 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/53982 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241934 - Centre: latitude 52.240383, longitude -6.589336 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ralphtown, from 2,817 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres) to 273,906 m² (27.39 ha, 67.68 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 381598: 273,906 m² (27.39 ha, 67.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/381598.md - Parcel 424201: 78,869 m² (7.89 ha, 19.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/424201.md - Parcel 5563040: 53,753 m² (5.38 ha, 13.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5563040.md - Parcel 5633686: 43,892 m² (4.39 ha, 10.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5633686.md - Parcel 5633688: 42,194 m² (4.22 ha, 10.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5633688.md - Parcel 378972: 27,569 m² (2.76 ha, 6.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/378972.md - Parcel 4867695: 26,652 m² (2.67 ha, 6.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4867695.md - Parcel 383525: 25,935 m² (2.59 ha, 6.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/383525.md - Parcel 5539331: 20,283 m² (2.03 ha, 5.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5539331.md - Parcel 373462: 5,461 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/373462.md - Parcel 388610: 5,058 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/388610.md - Parcel 368704: 4,792 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/368704.md - Parcel 2425037: 4,040 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2425037.md - Parcel 4875119: 3,553 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4875119.md - Parcel 408305: 3,208 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/408305.md - Parcel 4284629: 2,974 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4284629.md - Parcel 377410: 2,817 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/377410.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ralphtown 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) 14 applications, newest first. - 23 Apr 2025, Wexford County Council 20250474: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/128898 - 8 Apr 2025, Wexford County Council 20250406: N/a. Permission, 1 home. Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and shared. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/128820 - 18 Nov 2024, Wexford County Council 20241422: Refused. Permission. Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together with. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/128108 - 19 Jun 2023, Wexford County Council 20230680: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission to amend the design of the approved development (Planning Reg. Ref.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/125523 - 2 Jun 2023, Wexford County Council 20230625: N/a. Permission. Permission to amend the design of the approved development. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/125454 - 23 Nov 2022, Wexford County Council 20221551: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for a solar farm development which consists of the following.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/124550 - 23 Sept 2022, Wexford County Council 20221270: Granted (conditional). Permission, 2 homes. Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/124233 - 17 May 2021, Wexford County Council 20210746: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission for Retention of an extension to the rear of an existing retail outle. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/120922 - 1 May 2019, Wexford County Council 20190593: Granted (conditional). Retention. RETENTION FOR THE REMOVAL OF AN OUTFALL PIPE FROM A PERCOLATION AREA SERVING. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/108472 - 29 Mar 2018, Wexford County Council 20180389: Granted (conditional). Permission. PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC PANEL ARRAYS CONSISTING OF. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/105922 - 28 Mar 2017, Wexford County Council 20170377: Granted (conditional). Permission. PERMISSION FOR A FIELD GATE ENTRANCE FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF AGRICULTURAL USE. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/103491 - 17 Oct 2016, Wexford County Council 20161146: Granted (conditional). Permission. PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A 2 STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/102561 - 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 Ralphtown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WX046-025: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX046-025----. Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30-40m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6 inch map. It is located on a level, low-lying landscape. No antiquity is visible at ground level, although field boundaries now describe a triangle (dims c. 40m N-S; c. 40m E-W) with the apex at S that is open on the N side. 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: 20 August, 2013 - WX046-093: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX046-093----. Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 40m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by single fosse features and with straight edges at W and S, parallel with mapped field banks is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX046-093_1 to _5) taken in July 2006. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 August, 2013 Amended: 1 May, 2014 - WX046-094: Ring-ditch, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX046-094----. Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 8m) defined by a single unbroken fosse feature (Wth c. 2m) is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX046-094_1 to _5) taken in July 2006. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 July, 2013 - WX047-144: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX047-144----. Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of an enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single feature is visible on aerial photographs (WX047-144_1 to _5). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 18 October, 2013 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) - Baldwinstown National School, school, 1867–1901, Regional interest, registry number 15704706, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15704706. Detached three-bay (two-bay deep) single-storey national school, extant 1901, on a symmetrical plan with single-bay single-storey recessed lower porches. Closed, ---- Refenestrated, 2000. Now disused. Hipped slate roof; lean-to slate roofs behind parapets (porches), clay ridge tiles, rendered central "wallhead" chimney stack to rear (west) elevation having stringcourse below capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pot, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings in camber-headed recesses with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door openings in camber-headed recesses approached by two cut-granite steps with concealed dressings framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Road fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front. - Post box, 1881–1901, Regional interest, registry number 15704707, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15704707. Wall-mounted cast-iron "wall box" post box, between 1881-1901; extant 1903, with "VR [Victoria Regina]" royal cipher. Set in limewashed boundary wall. - Bridge, 1900–1910, Regional interest, registry number 15704711, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15704711. Single-span road bridge over railway line, opened 1906, on a skewed plan. Sited spanning railway line with unkempt embankments to railway line. ## 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 Ralphtown, 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 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_2919, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2919.zip (ZIP). - 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/ralphtown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ralphtown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ralphtown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ralphtown 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) - Beckville: https://everytownland.com/wexford/beckville.md - Coolycall: https://everytownland.com/wexford/coolycall.md - Kilcowan Upper: https://everytownland.com/wexford/kilcowan-upper.md - Muchtown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/muchtown.md - Newhouse: https://everytownland.com/wexford/newhouse-241796.md - Newtown Little: https://everytownland.com/wexford/newtown-little.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/ralphtown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/ralphtown