Kyle Upper

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kyle Upper, from 385 m² to 414,324 m² (41.43 ha, 102.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Kyle Upper 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.

• 6 May 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the addition of a single-story porch to the front (9m2) and the

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260574

• 7 Apr 2026N/a

  Permission for retention for the construction of a lake and all associated site

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260414

• 15 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to decommission existing septic tank system and upgrade to a tertiary

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250872

• 17 Jun 2025N/a

  Permission to decommission existing septic tank system and upgrade to a tertiary

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250737

• 6 Jun 2025N/a

  Permission to decommission existing septic tank system and upgrade to a

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250680

• 10 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20241096

• 7 May 2024Refused

  Permission for retention for the construction of a lake and all associated site

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240507

• 20 Dec 2021Refused

  Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and

  Permission, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20212017

• 22 Jun 2021Refused

  Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic garage and

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210977

• 25 Feb 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF GARAGE WITH LOFT STORAGE SPACE, COVERED WALKWAY

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190231

• 14 Sept 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM TO EXISTING DWE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181252

• 7 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170275

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 Kyle Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kyle Upper.

Architectural heritage

• Kyle, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Hipped gabled slate roof; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, rendered central chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on roughcast eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening with rendered "bas-relief" surround framing timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with chamfered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron gate.

• Kilpatrick Church, church/chapel, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Ecclesiastical Commissioners' Church of Ireland church, built 1844; dedicated 1844, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (west) front. Deconsecrated, 1971. Pitched slate roof with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, lichen-covered cut-granite "saddleback" coping to gables on cut-granite battlemented ogee corbel kneelers including lichen-covered cut-granite "saddleback" coping to gable to entrance (west) front with lichen-spotted cut-granite gabled bellcote to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part repointed tuck pointed coursed rubble "Old Red Sandstone" walls on benchmark-inscribed cut-granite chamfered plinth with hammered granite or "Old Red Sandstone" flush quoins to corners. Lancet window openings with cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch window opening (east) with interlocking timber Y-mullions, and cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on engaged octagonal label stops framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site.

• Farmyard complex, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, extant 1840, on a U-shaped plan including: Pair of detached five-bay single-storey outbuildings with half-attics in rectangular plans. Now disused. Pitched corrugated-iron roofs with pressed iron ridges, rendered or slate-covered coping to gables (north) with red brick Flemish bond chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below rendered capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on red brick header bond eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with red brick flush quoins to corners. Square-headed door openings including square-headed central loading door openings (half-attic) with red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber boarded doors. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing wrought iron bars (ground floor) or louvered timber fittings (half-attic). Set on a corner site centred on screen with pair of square-headed door openings centred on elliptical-headed gateway.

• Farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1840, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay full-height gabled breakfront on a shallow half-octagonal plan; three-bay single-storey lean-to return along rear (north) elevation. Occupied, 1911. Refenestrated, ----. Now disused. Pitched slate roof centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, grouped rendered diagonal chimney stacks (north) on rendered panelled base supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gable on timber purlins, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on limewashed red brick header bond eaves. Limewashed rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement fixed-pane timber fittings. Set in unkempt grounds.

• Broomly Cottage, country house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single- and two-storey country house with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor abutting single-bay single-storey recessed end bay (north) or single-bay two-storey gabled projecting end bay (south); single-bay single-storey (north) or four-bay two-storey (south) side elevations. Occupied, 1911. Replacement pitched artificial slate roofs on a T-shaped plan with ridge tiles, rendered or slate hung chimney stacks having lichen-covered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on decorative timber eaves boards on slightly overhanging eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Slate hung walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening with step threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings (south) with shallow sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings on consoles framing casement windows having margins centred on lattice glazing bars. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows having margins. Set in landscaped grounds with looped cast-iron piers to perimeter supporting "sun burst"-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

At the centre of the townland of Kyle Upper, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Kyle Upper · An Choill Uachtarach

Area

910,538 m² (91.05 ha, 225 acres)

Civil parish

Kilpatrick, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere East

Electoral division

Kilpatrick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

762 people lived in 260 households in the Kilpatrick electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydicken Upper, Garrycleary, Garrywilliam, Kereight, Kyle Middle, Sion

Placenames

Kyle Upper 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.