# Riverstown, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killag, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile na hAbhann. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 383,579 m² (38.36 ha, 94.78 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,109 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killag, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/killag.md - Barony: Bargy - Electoral division: Killag, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 508 people lived in 176 households in the Killag electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54007 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241996 - Centre: latitude 52.219391, longitude -6.636666 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Riverstown, from 1,515 m² to 292,986 m² (29.3 ha, 72.4 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5345077: 292,986 m² (29.3 ha, 72.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5345077.md - Parcel 5345076: 43,578 m² (4.36 ha, 10.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5345076.md - Parcel 2680232: 18,106 m² (1.81 ha, 4.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2680232.md - Parcel 378986: 10,270 m² (1.03 ha, 2.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/378986.md - Parcel 422040: 3,920 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/422040.md - Parcel 5875522: 3,109 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5875522.md - Parcel 430360: 3,004 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/430360.md - Parcel 5613471: 2,962 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5613471.md - Parcel 2680224: 2,931 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2680224.md - Parcel 426154: 1,928 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/426154.md - Parcel 409789: 1,515 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/409789.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Riverstown 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) 9 applications, newest first. - 3 Apr 2025, Wexford County Council 20250369: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission for retention of the following works; (a) Alterations made. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/128776 - 21 Feb 2025, Wexford County Council 20250212: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for the erection of an extension to the side of the home. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/128600 - 6 Nov 2023, Wexford County Council 20231338: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission for retention and completion of a dwelling house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/126235 - 18 Mar 2021, Wexford County Council 20210385: Granted (conditional). Permission, 2 homes. Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, garage and all. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/119912 - 9 Jul 2019, Wexford County Council 20190971: Granted (conditional). Retention. PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF CHANGES TO SITE LAYOUT AND SITE BOUNDARIES FROM. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/109828 - 9 Jul 2019, Wexford County Council 20190972: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLINGHOUSE AND GARAGE. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/109822 - 6 Feb 2019, Wexford County Council 20190144: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF HOME AND REPLACE WITH. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/107938 - 16 Jan 2019, Wexford County Council 20190036: N/a. Permission. PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF HOME AND REPLACE WITH. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/107801 - 3 Nov 2017, Wexford County Council 20171427: Granted (conditional). Permission. PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF TWO GABLE WINDOWS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/104936 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 Riverstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WX046-050: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX046-050----. Situated on a rise in a gently undulating but fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by one faintly visible feature can be seen on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDI 89). It is truncated slightly by a NNE-SSW field bank at E, and it is not visible at ground level in pasture. 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 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 Riverstown. ## 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 Riverstown, 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_2852, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2852.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/riverstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/riverstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/riverstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Riverstown 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) - Blackstone: https://everytownland.com/wexford/blackstone.md - Gibberpatrick: https://everytownland.com/wexford/gibberpatrick.md - Gibberwell: https://everytownland.com/wexford/gibberwell.md - Reahouse: https://everytownland.com/wexford/reahouse.md - Redmoor: https://everytownland.com/wexford/redmoor.md - Seafield: https://everytownland.com/wexford/seafield-242057.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/riverstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/riverstown