# Staplestown (Ram), Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kildavin, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Stapail (Ram). - Area (Tailte Éireann): 299,003 m² (29.9 ha, 73.89 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kildavin, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/kildavin.md - Barony: Forth - Electoral division: Rathaspick, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54302 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 242129 - Centre: latitude 52.295192, longitude -6.53822 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Staplestown (Ram); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 28 May 2025, Wexford County Council 20250625: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/129066 - 9 Apr 2024, Wexford County Council 20240379: Granted (conditional). Retention. Permission for retention for garage/ store to the side of the existing dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/126937 - 8 Dec 2022, Wexford County Council 20221626: Refused. Permission, 1 home. Permission for erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage/store and. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/124627 - 8 Nov 2021, Wexford County Council 20211727: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. Permisison for the following 1.) Retention of works completed on-site con. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/122472 - 14 Aug 2020, Wexford County Council 20200933: Granted (conditional). Permission, 2 homes. Permission to construct a dwelling house with domestic garage,. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/116533 - 15 May 2017, Wexford County Council 20170597: Granted (conditional). Permission. PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (PLAN. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/103760 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 Staplestown (Ram). ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Staplestown (Ram). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Sunrise, farm house, 1842–1882, Regional interest, registry number 15704216, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WX®no=15704216. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 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: 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, 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/staplestown-ram.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/staplestown-ram.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/staplestown-ram.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Forth Commons: https://everytownland.com/wexford/forth-commons-241118.md - Kildavin Lower: https://everytownland.com/wexford/kildavin-lower.md - Murntown Upper: https://everytownland.com/wexford/murntown-upper.md - Staplestown (Greaves): https://everytownland.com/wexford/staplestown-greaves.md - Staplestown (Morgan): https://everytownland.com/wexford/staplestown-morgan.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/staplestown-ram - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/staplestown-ram