Rathturtin

160 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathturtin, from 23 m² to 440,895 m² (44.09 ha, 108.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rathturtin 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.

• 28 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of a domestic storage shed and permission

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260514

• 11 Feb 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together with all

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250151

• 31 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241631

• 3 May 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of garage/store constructed to the side of existing

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240501

• 11 Oct 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for completion of 2 no dwellings that were erected to floor level on

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221335

• 20 May 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house together with all

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220667

• 19 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)

  Retention of a domestic garage

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220503

• 21 Feb 2020Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION OF (A) CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE AND (B) EXISTING BOUNDARIES AND ALL ANCILL

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200217

• 10 Feb 2020N/a

  RETENTION OF (A) CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE AND (B) EXISTING BOUNDARIES AND ALL ANCILL

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200153

• 27 May 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF TWO DWELLING HOUSES AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20190711

• 17 Dec 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181739

• 23 Jul 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH EXISTING EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND E

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181005

• 16 Jul 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC STOR

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20180973

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rathturtin.

Recorded monuments

• WX030-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a bivallate enclosure (ext. diam. c. 70-75m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and located just off the S-facing slope of a broad plateau. This is a circular area (diam. 45m NNW-SSE) planted with coniferous trees and defined by an earthen bank (at NW: Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H1.1m) separated by a fosse (at NW: Wth of top 6.5m; Wth of base 2.1m; ext. D 1.1m) from an outer bank (at NW: Wth 4.1m; ext. H 1.1m) and outer fosse (at NW: Wth of top 3.5m; ext. D 0.7m). The entrance and causeway through both banks (Wth 6.5m) at WSW is probably modern (max. ext. diam. 65m). Earthwork (WX030-008----) is c. 50m to the SW. 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: 16 August, 2012

• WX030-008 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Marked as small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a S-facing slope. It is not visible at ground level in a fern-covered area that has been quarried, and the quarry may be what is represented. Rath (WX030-007----) is c. 50m to the NE. 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: 16 August, 2012

• WX030-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight NW-SE spur with small NW-SE streams c. 300m to the NE and c. 550m to the SW and the W-E Aughnaglaur River is c. 450m to the S. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. c. 35m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 4m; H 0.5m) planted with coniferous trees and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4m; D 0.4m) SE NW, and by a scarp (H 0.3m) N SE. The entrance (Wth 7m) is at SE. 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: 16 August, 2012

• WX030-010 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Marked as a slight circular enclosure (diam. c. 35-40m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated on a slight S-facing slope. It is not visible at ground level in a root crop. 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: 16 August, 2012

• WX030-025 Moated site
  Description

  Marked as a rectangular embanked or moated enclosure (ext. dims. c. 60m NW-SE; c. 55m NE-SW) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the floor of a NW-SE valley with a stream c. 20m to the SW. This is a rectangular area (dims. 50m NW SE; 33m NE SW) defined by earthen banks (Wth 5-6m; int. H 0.4-1m; ext. H 1.5-1.8m) with an outer moat (Wth of top 5-7.5m; Wth of base 2.2-3m; ext. D 0.3 at NW and SE; 0.8m at SW and 1.5m at NE). There are breaks in the NW and SE banks, but that towards the E end of the NE bank (Wth 3.5m) is the most likely entrance. The interior is planted with coniferous trees. (Barry 1977, 226, WX 107) 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: 16 August, 2012

Architectural heritage

• Palace East Junction Railway Station, railway station, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single-storey barrel-roofed railway station, built 1887; opened 1887, on a T-shaped plan centred on three-bay single-storey "bas-relief" breakfront with single-bay single-storey projecting porch. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Attacked, 1923. Closed, 1931. Closed, 1963. Renovated, ----, to accommodate continued alternative use. Corrugated-iron-covered segmental barrel roof on a T-shaped plan centred on canopy on timber consoles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards. Corrugated-iron-covered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber door. Square-headed window openings with timber sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Set in unkempt grounds.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rathturtin.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

No address of the register names Rathturtin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Rathturtin · Ráth Thoirtín

Area

4,076,786 m² (407.68 ha, 1,007.4 acres)

Civil parish

Killegney, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Clonroche, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonroche electoral division: 1,333 people in 463 households; 73% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballagh, Brocorrow, Clonleigh, Coolnacon, Forestwood, Knockstown, Palace East, Templenacroha

Placenames

Rathturtin 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.