Waddingtown

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Waddingtown, from 3 m² to 172,229 m² (17.22 ha, 42.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Waddingtown 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.

• 2 Apr 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of domestic garage/store as built

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250366

• 14 Jul 2022Refused

  Permission for the erection of a self contained dwelling unit and for works to u

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220959

• 3 May 2022Refused

  Permission for the erection of a self-contained dwelling unit and for works to u

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220569

• 23 Jun 2020Refused

  Permission for 2no. dwellings approx250m2 each with separate waste water

  Outline permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20200670

• 2 Nov 2017Refused

  PERMISSION FOR (I) GROUND AND FIRST FLOOR EXENSION TO AN EXISTING STORAGE SHED T

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171413

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 Waddingtown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Waddingtown.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch with single-bay single-storey higher end bay (east). Occupied, 1990. Now disused. Part chicken wire-covered hipped oat thatch roof (west) with exposed wire stretchers to degraded ridge having exposed scallops, rendered red brick Running bond central chimney stack having corbelled stepped chamfered capping, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops; pitched slate roof (east) with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stack to apex (east) having stepped capping, and no rainwater goods on limewashed eaves. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed off-central door opening into farmhouse. Square-headed window openings with limewashed concrete sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement to rear (north) elevation with concrete or rendered sill, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash window having two-over-two sidelights. Set in courtyard perpendicular to road with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat 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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Waddingtown.

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

Name

Waddingtown · Baile Bhaidín

Area

940,619 m² (94.06 ha, 232.43 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyconnick, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Harperstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Harperstown electoral division: 560 people in 185 households; 91% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughnagan, Garrison, Harperstown, Hightown, Newtown, Philippintown, Rochestown, Tullispark

Placenames

Waddingtown 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.