Roperstown

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roperstown, from 149 m² to 340,605 m² (34.06 ha, 84.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Roperstown 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.

• 25 Jan 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240059

• 14 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of a domestic garage/store and associated works

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230661

• 21 Sept 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201092

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 Roperstown.

Recorded monuments

• WX026-100 Burnt mound
  Description

  Situated in scrubland on the S bank of and close to the source of a small E-W stream, known as the Monroe. Monitoring of topsoil removal (E004785) during the construction phase of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy motorway in October 2016 identified two spreads of burnt stone c. 80m apart. The E feature extended outside the road corridor, and excavation was conducted in November/December 2016 under the same licence. This W spread (dims 9m x 6.4m) was completely excavated and it was the full extent of a kidney-shaped mound (dims 7m E-W; 3m N-S; max. D 0.3m). There was no evidence of a trough directly beneath it, but a small spread (dims 1.4m x 1.2m; max. D 0.2m) of heat-affected sand c. 3m to the W may have been a hearth. A small pit (dims 1.2m x 1m; D 0.25m) c. 25m E of the mound is the only possible trough, from which a sample of ash charcoal produced a C14 date of 2296-2060 cal. BC. No artefacts were recovered. (Turrell and Kavanagh 2018) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 October 2020

• WX026-101 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated in scrubland on the S bank of and close to the source of a small E-W stream, known as the Monroe. Monitoring of topsoil removal (E004785) during the construction phase of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy motorway in October 2016 identified two spreads of burnt stone c. 80m apart. The E feature extended outside the road corridor, and excavation was conducted in November/December 2016 under the same licence. This E feature was only excavated (dims 7m E-W; 3m N-S; max. D 0.3m) within the road take. There was a rectangular trough (dims 1.35m x 1.2m; max. D 0.44m) with round corners, straight sides and a flat base just outside the mound to the W and it was filled with black peaty clays. Most of the burnt mound (total dims 12m x 8m; D 0.22m) spread outside the excavated area to the SE and is preserved in situ under a covering of terram and soil. Hazel and ash were present in the charcoal and a sample of hazel from the bottom of the trough produced a C14 date of 2201-2024 cal. BC. No artefacts were recovered. (Turrell and Kavanagh 2012) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 October 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Roperstown.

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

At the centre of the townland of Roperstown, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2953 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Roperstown · Baile Roper

Area

406,193 m² (40.62 ha, 100.37 acres)

Civil parish

Edermine, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen South

Electoral division

Edermine, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,597 people lived in 537 households in the Edermine electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvake, Garrynisk, Riverview, Scurlocksbush

Placenames

Roperstown 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.