Kilmichael

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmichael, from 424 m² to 347,821 m² (34.78 ha, 85.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Kilmichael 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.

• 8 Jul 2026Refused

  Permission for retention for 1 no. existing site entrance, includes gates,

  Retention, 6 homes · Wexford County Council, 20260897

• 13 Jul 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a steel framed shed for the purpose of vintage car storage

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230807

• 26 Apr 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of alterations to approved domestic garage/store

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230442

• 13 Jun 2022Refused

  Permission for retention for the change of use and internal alterations

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220786

• 22 Apr 2022N/a

  Permission for an Ecotourism Glamping Site on a site of 4.68 hectares.

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220527

• 19 Apr 2022Refused

  Permission for the conversion and extension of a domestic garage to form a grann

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220511

• 16 Mar 2022N/a

  Permission for a "Ecotourism Glamping Site" on a site of 4.68 hectares.

  Permission, 24 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220348

• 30 Jun 2021Refused

  Permission is sought to erect a storage shed for the storage of vintage cars and

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211028

• 9 Apr 2019Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF : A TOTAL 7.06 HECTARES, WHICH IN

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190462

• 21 Mar 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT AT KILMICHAEL (KILMICHAEL POINT) INCH, GOREY CO WEXFO

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190356

• 1 Dec 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH AN EXISTING EXTENSION, ERECT A NEW EXTENSION AND CARRY OU

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171570

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Kilpatrick Sandhills SAC 001742
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilpatrick Sandhills 001742

Recorded monuments

• WX007B001 Cist
  Description

  A rectangular cist which had two side-stones protruding from the cliff c. 1.5m below the surface was excavated in 2001 by Patrick Power and local enthusiasts. It had a clay base and was open at the top but it produced a ribbed food vessel bowl and some lithics. Any bone that would have been present would probably have been washed away. (Power 2011) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 March, 2012

• WX007B003 Signal tower
  Description

  Located at the tip of Kilmichael Point adjacent to the low rocky coastline with short sections of sandy beach adjacent to the NW and a former coastguard station (NIAH Reg. No. 15700741) located immediately adjacent (c. 50m) to the SW (OD c. 13m). Site located c. 6.5kms to the SSE of the centre of Arklow, Wicklow, and c. 7.2kms SSE of the small village of Coolgreany. The probable\possible site of this former signal station is now mostly eroded\collapsed, and only fragmentary remains survive of what may be a small section of the signal station\tower (see below). The surrounding area is generally composed of level terrain that rises very gradually inland to the W, affording good views in all directions. The surrounding land is comprised mainly of rough pastureland to the SW and S and by pastureland to the NW, both defined by generally linear field boundaries. The adjacent stations in the signal station\tower chain were located at Cahore Point (WX017-021----), located c. 19.8kms to the S\SSW, site now lost to coastal erosion, and at Ardanairy, Mizen Head Wicklow (WI036-022----), located c. 14.9kms to the NNE\N, site now demolished. The site of this signal tower at Kilmichael Point in located c. 3.8kms NNE of the site of a church (WX007-015001-) and an associated graveyard (WX007-015002-) located at Kilgorman, and c. 3.3kms SSE of another church site (WI045-010001-) with an associated graveyard (WI045-010002-) at Ballinabanoge, County Wicklow. The signal station at Kilmichael Point may have been demolished or lost to coastal erosion, and its exact position and its original form is not known. However, a ‘redundant record’ (WX007B002----) for a site on or near the probable site of the signal station records the remains of a small section of what is described as a ‘coastguard station’ that is depicted on the Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map of 1839. Interestingly, the measurements given for this structure ‘ext. dims. 7m plus NE-SW; 5.85m NW-SE’ corresponds very closely with the usual dimensions for purpose-built signal stations\towers along the W and SW coasts of Ireland, which are generally have a ground plan of c. 5.85m x c. 5.85m; this hints that this fragmentary ruin may represent the remains of a signal station, which, later, was incorporated into the coastguard station that is indicated on the Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map of 1839. This structure\ruin is described (2020) as being ‘built of stone (wall Wth 0.6-0.62m) with good granite quoins to the S corner rising to a H of 4m… doorway (Wth 1.14m) 1.16m from the S angle in the SE wall with brick surrounds’. Kerrigan established that a signal tower was under construction at this site by 1804 and that it had not been completed by April 1806. The signal mast had been erected by September 1804 (Kerrigan 1995, 276). Rathbone (2020) suggested that it is possible that the signal station was never finished at this site. The signal station\tower is not named on the Ordnance Survey map first ed. six-inch map, surveyed 1839-40. However, the ‘coastguard station’ mentioned above is depicted and named. This is depicted as an L-plan structure (aligned WSW-ENE along its long axis) with a number of small rectangular-plan enclosures and a flagstaff located c. 90m to the SSE. This coastguard station was later replaced by a new coastguard station (NIAH Reg. No. 15700741), built c. 1875, that was constructed c. 60m to the WSW of the earlier structure; this had a ‘flag staff’ indicated c. 15m to the E on the Ordnance Survey twenty-five inch map of c. 1901. The earlier 'coast guard station' is depicted on this twenty-five inch map as a linear rectangular-plan structure (ext. dims c. 12.2m WSW-ENE x c. 5.8m WNW-ESE) and it has lost the short arm of the 'L', which was to the SE end, by this time. The signal tower was part of a system of over 80 signal stations constructed by the British Board of Ordnance in the first decade of the nineteenth century to warn of the approach of a French invasion fleet. Signalling between sites was accomplished using a naval signal post. The system formed a continuous chain from Malin Head in Donegal to Dublin Bay. It was abandoned by the mid-1810s when the treat of a French invasion diminished (Kerrigan 1995, 157-66). Uploaded on: 06/10/22

Architectural heritage

• Kilmichael Point Coastguard Station, coastguard station, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey coastguard station, ----, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. In alternative use, 1914-8. Burnt, 1922. In ruins, 1940. "Restored", 1999, to accommodate alternative use. Replacement hipped slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks centred on rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, paired rooflights to rear (south) pitch, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on cut-granite eaves on thumbnail beaded terracotta corbels. Repointed coursed rubble limestone walls originally rendered on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on plinth with red brick quoins to corners. Camber- or segmental-headed window openings with cut-granite chamfered sills, and repointed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement one-over-one sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (south) elevation with cut-granite sills, and repointed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement one-over-one timber sash windows. Set in relandscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having chamfered capping supporting arrow head-detailed wrought iron gate.

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 Kilmichael, about 1 in 20 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kilmichael · Cill Mhichíl

Area

1,380,156 m² (138.02 ha, 341.04 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgorman, and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Kilgorman, the unit of the census

Census 2022

890 people lived in 297 households in the Kilgorman electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloneranny, Killowen Lower, Kilmurry Lower (Co. Wicklow), Kilmurry Middle (Co. Wicklow), Kilpatrick

Placenames

Kilmichael 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.