# Roperstown, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Edermine, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Roper.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 406,193 m² (40.62 ha, 100.37 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,666 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Edermine, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/edermine.md
- Barony: Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division: Edermine, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/52426
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 242009
- Centre: latitude 52.449784, longitude -6.531817 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roperstown, from 149 m² to 340,605 m² (34.06 ha, 84.17 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 395398: 340,605 m² (34.06 ha, 84.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/395398.md
- Parcel 4928916: 27,187 m² (2.72 ha, 6.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4928916.md
- Parcel 403894: 4,553 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/403894.md
- Parcel 5626135: 4,172 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5626135.md
- Parcel 6082591: 3,930 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6082591.md
- Parcel 2725232: 3,161 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2725232.md
- Parcel 378988: 3,026 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/378988.md
- Parcel 4063729: 2,971 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4063729.md
- Parcel 381216: 2,885 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/381216.md
- Parcel 2410338: 2,448 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2410338.md
- Parcel 373478: 2,392 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/373478.md
- Parcel 365041: 2,172 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/365041.md
- Parcel 404143: 2,095 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/404143.md
- Parcel 374420: 1,795 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/374420.md
- Parcel 390467: 1,401 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/390467.md
- Parcel 378844: 477 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/378844.md
- Parcel 377424: 185 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/377424.md
- Parcel 365042: 149 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/365042.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

3 applications, newest first.

- 25 Jan 2024, Wexford County Council 20240059: Granted (conditional). Permission, 2 homes. Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/126584
- 14 Jun 2023, Wexford County Council 20230661: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission for retention of a domestic garage/store and associated works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/125495
- 21 Sept 2020, Wexford County Council 20201092: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/117474

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 Roperstown.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- WX026-100: Burnt mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX026-100----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX026-101----. 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

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 Roperstown.

## 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 Roperstown, about 1 in 5 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 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2953.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/roperstown.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/roperstown.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/roperstown.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Roperstown 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)

- Ballyvake: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballyvake.md
- Garrynisk: https://everytownland.com/wexford/garrynisk-241169.md
- Riverview: https://everytownland.com/wexford/riverview.md
- Scurlocksbush: https://everytownland.com/wexford/scurlocksbush.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.

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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.

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