Springpark

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Springpark, from 685 m² to 557,609 m² (55.76 ha, 137.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 44 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 Springpark 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.

• 15 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for an existing fully serviced house extension, existing domestic

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251312

• 7 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for works to uprate the existing Great Island - Kellis 220kV

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241230

• 31 Jul 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a shed to be used as a machinery and fodder

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230877

• 24 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for an extension and amendments to an existing agricultural shed to

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221553

• 1 Feb 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of an extension to an existing dwelling house

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210129

• 7 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of extensions and alterations to the existing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201488

• 29 Jul 2016Refused

  CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING LOOSE LIVESTOCK HOUSING SHED TO FACILITATE THE STORAGE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160866

• 19 May 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED TO STORE MACHINERY AND FODDE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160531

• 11 Apr 2016Granted (conditional)

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELLINGHOUSE, THE INSTA

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160356

• 4 Apr 2016Refused

  ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING & ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160333

• 18 Mar 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A ROAD UNDERPASS AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS FOR AG

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160278

• 8 Feb 2016N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WOR

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160110

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 Springpark.

Recorded monuments

• WX030-034 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as Toberball in gothic script. The name may derive from balbh – dumb, but is probably a corruption of Toberdhall – Blind Well. It is situated at the E edge of a wide N-S valley, but is not visible at ground level. It is not known if it was ever venerated. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 August, 2012

• WX030-052 Historic town
  Description

  Old Ross was one of the principal manors of Strongbow’s descendants in Co. Wexford. In the partition of the Leinster estate in 1247 it passed to Maud, the wife of Hugh Bigod, earl of Norfolk, and thereafter to various English families. Accounts surviving from the 1280s and 1290s reveal that it was a considerable settlement with perhaps 60 households. A description in 1305 mentions two old halls, a chapel, kitchen, grange, and gardens. The location is not known precisely, but on the pattern of English rural settlements it probably lay between the motte and bailey (WX030-052001-) and the church site (WX030-053001-). There was also a stone castle (WX030-052002-) from at least the 16th century. Robert Leigh describes the settlement as an old castle out of repair and 50 cabins in the 1680s (Hore, H.F. 1858-9, 453-4). (Hore 1900-11, vol. 1, 9-39; Bradley and King 1990, 134-6) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 August, 2012

• WX030-052001 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  Situated just off the E edge of a plateau and on the W side of a small N-S valley with a stream c. 20m to the E. The castle of Old Ross is first mentioned in 1233 (Hore 1900-11, vol. 1, 2) and repairs to the palisade were carried out in 1281 (ibid. 15). The motte is a flat topped earthen mound (diam. of top 8-9m; diam. of base 35m E-W; H 5.8m at W to 7.7m at E) with some mature deciduous trees and scrub. It has no clearly visible fosse, but soil removal and slippage in the 1970s showed construction layers within the core of the mound (Culleton and Colfer 1974-5). A bailey may have existed to the S (dims. c. 50m N-S; c. 30m E-W) and an enclosure (diam. c. 30m) described as the ‘Site of Castle’ is marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map in this location. The church site (WX030-053001-) is c. 450m to the SE. 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: 16 August, 2012 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1974).

• WX030-052002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  The original castle at Old Ross is the motte (WX030-052001-) but by the 16th century a stone castle had been built (Hore 1900-11, vol. 1, 40-1), and according to the Civil Survey (1654-6) the castle and 1000 acres at Old Ross were the inheritance of William Plunkett of Dublin in 1640 (Simington 1953, 207). Robert Leigh writing in 1684 describes the castle as out of repair (Hore 1858-9, 453-4). The site of the castle is placed just S of the motte (WX030-052001-) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and it is presumably from here that the two gargoyles that are now on the premises of the Royal Society of Antiquaries in Merrion Square, Dublin, were recovered (Hore 1900-11, vol. 1,1, n2). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 August, 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Springpark, about 1 in 10 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 Springpark.

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 Springpark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Springpark · Páirc an Tobair

Area

2,143,501 m² (214.35 ha, 529.67 acres)

Civil parish

Oldross, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Old Ross, the unit of the census

Census 2022

498 people lived in 150 households in the Old Ross electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bushpark, Dunanore or Goldentown, Heathpark, Lacken, Millquarter, Raheenahennedy, Robinstown Great, Robinstown Little

Placenames

Springpark 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.