Sheastown
Sheastown is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcavan, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Sé.
- Area
- 72.9 ha
- 180 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 2,752 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheastown, from 890 m² to 221,274 m² (22.13 ha, 54.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Sheastown 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for a proposed walking track, upgrades to the existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241056
17 Jul 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retentionof an extension to an existing dwelling house and fu
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200798
23 Aug 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED &
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171131
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Sheastown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Sheastown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sheastown.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Sheastown, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Sheastown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Sheastown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Sheastown · Baile Sé
- Area
- 728,845 m² (72.88 ha, 180.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcavan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bargy
- Electoral division
- Harristown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 556 people lived in 211 households in the Harristown electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balloughton, Barrystown, Coolbrock, Kilcavan (Old Mill), Maudlintown, Whittyshill
- Placenames
- Sheastown 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.