# Sion, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilpatrick, barony of Shelmaliere East, Co. Wexford; in Irish Sión. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 417,222 m² (41.72 ha, 103.1 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,238 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 12 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilpatrick, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/kilpatrick.md - Barony: Shelmaliere East - Electoral division: Artramon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 807 people lived in 263 households in the Artramon electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/53717 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 242092 - Centre: latitude 52.388705, longitude -6.511486 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sion, from 116 m² to 378,939 m² (37.89 ha, 93.64 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 403565: 378,939 m² (37.89 ha, 93.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/403565.md - Parcel 424680: 73,886 m² (7.39 ha, 18.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/424680.md - Parcel 417546: 8,207 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/417546.md - Parcel 4934666: 3,238 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4934666.md - Parcel 424493: 2,293 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/424493.md - Parcel 4934679: 691 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4934679.md - Parcel 5224840: 116 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5224840.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Sion 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) 12 applications, newest first. - 22 Jul 2026, Wexford County Council 20260974: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission for the Retention of a single storey standalone building to the rear. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/131671 - 23 Jun 2020, Wexford County Council 20200668: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. Permission for the construction of a road underpass for agricultural purposes. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/115538 - 14 May 2020, Wexford County Council 20200504: N/a. Permission. Permission to construction of road underpass for agricultural purposes, to cross. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/115299 - 19 Nov 2018, Wexford County Council 20181589: Granted (conditional). Permission. PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWIN, 1) ERECTION OF A COMMUNITY HALL WITH SEWERAGE SYSTE. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/107478 - 8 Nov 2018, Wexford County Council 20181542: N/a. Permission. PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING 1) ERECTION OF A COMMUNITY HALL WITH SEWERAGE. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/107423 - 13 Aug 2018, Wexford County Council 20181107: N/a. Permission. PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A COMMUNITY HALL WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITHI. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/106834 - 8 Mar 2018, Wexford County Council 20180268: N/a. Permission. PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A ONE CLASSROOM EXTENSION TOT HE REAR OF EXISTING. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/105757 - 25 Jan 2018, Wexford County Council 20180079: Refused. Permission. PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A COMMUNITY HALL WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITHI. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/105465 - 9 May 2017, Wexford County Council 20111160: Granted (unconditional). Extension of duration. PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF A PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PASTORAL CENTRE TOGETHER. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/103718 - 25 Apr 2017, Wexford County Council 20170519: N/a. Permission. PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE CLASSROOM EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/103670 - 19 Dec 2016, Wexford County Council 20161412: N/a. Permission. PERMISSION FOR CHANGES TO PROPOSED BUILDING GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PL. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/102897 - 21 Nov 2016, Wexford County Council 20161297: N/a. Permission. PERMISSION FOR CHANGES TO PROPOSED BUILDING GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING RE. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/102756 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 Sion. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Sion. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Sion House, farm house, 1840–1850, Regional interest, registry number 15703237, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15703237. Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse, rebuilt 1845, on a T-shaped plan; three-bay three-storey rear (west) elevation. Sold, 1850. For sale, 1882. Occupied, 1901. Vacant, 1911. Sold, 1912. Vacant, 1912-29. Renovated, ----. Replacement hipped artificial slate roof abutting replacement hipped artificial slate roof on a U-shaped plan (west) with ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks on axis with ridge having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on eaves boards on overhanging eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Replacement cement rendered walls. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of four steps with cut-granite step threshold, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled double doors having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing nine-over-six (ground floor) or six-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows with replacement uPVC casement windows to rear (west) elevation replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central entrance hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and egg-and-dart-detailed decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling; segmental-headed opening into staircase hall with carved timber Classical-style surround framing timber panelled folding double doors having fanlight; staircase hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, cantilevered staircase on a dog leg plan with turned timber "spindle" balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in volute, and carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds. - Catholic Church of Saint Patrick and Saint Bridget, church/chapel, 1910–1915, Regional interest, registry number 15703238, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15703238. Detached seven-bay double-height Catholic church, designed 1912; built 1912-4; opened 1914, on a rectangular plan comprising six-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (north). Renovated, 1976, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roofs with perforated crested clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables on cut-granite ogee corbel kneelers with Cross finials to apexes including cut-granite coping to gable to entrance (south) front on cut-granite ogee corbel kneelers with granite ashlar buttressed gabled bellcote to apex framing embossed cast-bronze bell ("----"), and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Cut-granite banded tuck pointed snecked rock faced conglomerate stone walls on margined rock faced cut-granite cushion course on battered plinth with margined rock faced cut-granite buttresses including margined rock faced cut-granite buttresses to corners having cut-granite "slated" coping. Lancet window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Lancet "Trinity Window" to chancel (north) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing iron mesh storm panels over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (south) front with cut-granite step threshold, and drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding over on monolithic label stops framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Lancet flanking window openings, drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Lancet "Trinity Window" to gable, drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Interior including vestibule (south); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors having sidelights on panelled risers below overlights; full-height interior open into roof with arcaded choir gallery (south) on a half-octagonal plan on chamfered timber pillars, encaustic tiled central aisle between Maltese Cross-detailed timber pews, timber panelled wainscoting supporting carved timber dado rail, paired Gothic-style timber stations between frosted glass windows, exposed pointed-arch braced scissor truss timber roof construction on beaded "Bowtell" corbels with wind braced diagonal timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling in carved timber frame on carved timber cornice, and mosaic tiled cut-veined white marble stepped dais to sanctuary (north) reordered, 1976, with pointed-arch chancel arch framing Gothic-style reredos below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (1913) in mosaic tiled surround. Set in landscaped grounds with drag edged dragged limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having roll moulded gabled capping supporting wrought iron double gates. - Graveyard/cemetery, 1840–2009, Regional interest, registry number 15703240, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15703240. Graveyard with collection of cut-limestone markers, ob.1840-2009. Set in landscaped grounds centred on inscribed altar ("1765") with cylindrical piers to perimeter having conical capping supporting wrought iron double gates. - Tanglewood, house, 1760–1840, Regional interest, registry number 15703241, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15703241. Detached two-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. Now disused. Hipped fibre-cement slate roof with lichen-spotted concrete ridge tiles centred on grey brick Running bond chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on roughcast slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed off-central door opening into house. Square-headed window openings including paired square-headed window openings (half-dormer attic) with sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Road fronted on a corner site with unkempt verge to front. ## 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 Sion, 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. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Sion. - 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/sion.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/sion.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/sion.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Sion 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) - Ballyshane: https://everytownland.com/wexford/ballyshane-240486.md - Crossabeg: https://everytownland.com/wexford/crossabeg.md - Garrycleary: https://everytownland.com/wexford/garrycleary.md - Garrywilliam: https://everytownland.com/wexford/garrywilliam.md - Kyle Upper: https://everytownland.com/wexford/kyle-upper.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/sion - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/sion