Staplestown (Ram)

0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Staplestown (Ram). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Staplestown (Ram) 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.

• 28 May 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250625

• 9 Apr 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention for garage/ store to the side of the existing dwelling

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240379

• 8 Dec 2022Refused

  Permission for erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store and

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221626

• 8 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permisison for the following 1.) Retention of works completed on-site con

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211727

• 14 Aug 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a dwelling house with domestic garage,

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20200933

• 15 May 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (PLAN

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170597

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 Staplestown (Ram).

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Staplestown (Ram).

Architectural heritage

• Sunrise, farm house, 1842–1882 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1882, on an L-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey projecting porch to ground floor; three-bay (south) or single-bay (north) two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1911. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered red brick Running bond central chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on chevron- or saw tooth-detailed red brick cornice retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Slate hung walls; lime rendered surface finish to side (north) elevation. Segmental-headed central door opening into farmhouse with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having oversailing overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in unkempt grounds with lime rendered piers to perimeter having "Cavetto"-detailed shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Staplestown (Ram).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Staplestown (Ram) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Staplestown (Ram) · Baile Stapail (Ram)

Area

299,003 m² (29.9 ha, 73.89 acres)

Civil parish

Kildavin, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Rathaspick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathaspick electoral division: 1,818 people in 634 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Forth Commons, Kildavin Lower, Murntown Upper, Staplestown (Greaves), Staplestown (Morgan)

Placenames

Staplestown (Ram) 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.