Youngstown
Townland in the civil parish of Coolstuff, barony of Shelmaliere West, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile an tSiúnaigh
- Area
- 121.3 ha
- 300 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 3,223 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Youngstown, from 454 m² to 329,182 m² (32.92 ha, 81.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Youngstown 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
For the erection of a livery building, loose housing shed, hay shed, arena with
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251365
22 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the development of solar PV. Permission
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251044
10 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to amend the design of the approved development (Planning reference:
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230233
2 Mar 2023N/a
Permission to amend the design of the approved development (Planning reference:
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230202
15 Feb 2023N/a
Permission to amend the design of the approved development (Planning Reference:
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230147
15 Aug 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION PERMISSION OF MINOR ALTERATIONS TO WINDOWS/DOORS DURING CONSTRUCTION
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191156
1 Aug 2019N/a
RETENTION PERMISSION OF MINOR ALTERATIONS TO WINDOWS/DOORS DURING CONSTRUCTION
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191102
1 Sept 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION AT THIS SITE OF CIRCA 32.15 HECTARES WHICH WILL CONSIST OF: A 10-YEAR
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171188
23 Aug 2017N/a
PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT ON SITE OF CIRCA 32.15 HECTARES TO CONSIST OF: A 10 Y
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171128
13 Jan 2017Refused
PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT ON A SITE OF CIRCA 32.15 HECTARES IN THE TOWNLAND OF
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170022
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Youngstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Youngstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Youngstown.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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 Youngstown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Youngstown, Taghmon7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Youngstown · Baile an tSiúnaigh
- Area
- 1,213,219 m² (121.32 ha, 299.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Coolstuff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelmaliere West
- Electoral division
- Aughwilliam, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Aughwilliam electoral division: 587 people in 204 households; 89% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughnagan, Ballyhust, Harperstown, Harveystown, Tincurra, Tracystown East
- Placenames
- Youngstown 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.