Kilmacree

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmacree, from 1,649 m² to 320,504 m² (32.05 ha, 79.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Kilmacree 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Kilmacree in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Kilmacree.

Recorded monuments

• WX042-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low-lying, level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 30m; ext. diam. c. 45m) defined by a wide inner fosse feature and a smaller outer fosse is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AYJ 95). Nothing is visible at ground level in pasture. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 28 May, 2013

• WX042-032001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape and on the N side of a minor cul-de-sac road. This is the parish church of Kilmacree within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 45m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by earthen banks and hedges. References date from 1541 when it was attached to St. Selsker’s abbey in Wexford (WX037-032009-) (Hore 1920, 76). According to a Visitation by Thomas Ram, the Protestant bishop of Ferns, in 1615 this church was impropriate to Henry Wallop and the name of the priest, if any, is not recorded. Nor is the condition of the church building recorded (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 268). The church consists of a nave (int. dims. 12m E-W; 4.4m N-S) and chancel (int. dims. c. 4.5m E-W; 3.6m N-S) defined by low grass covered walls (Wth 0.8-1.4m). The pointed chancel arch survives (Wth 1.4m; H 1.9m) with piers of dressed limestone, and there are doorways (Wth 0.7m) towards the W end of the nave walls. The rectangular granite font (ext. dims 0.64m x 0.6m; H 0.41m; int. dims 0.43m x 0.42m; D c. 0.3m) from this site is now (WX042-033002-) at the remains of a Roman Catholic church at Ballykelly (WX042-033001-), c. 600m to the N. (Hore 1925, 11) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 28 May, 2013 Amended: 2 Sep. 2013

• WX042-032002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape and on the N side of a minor cul-de-sac road. The parish church of Kilmacree (WX042-032001-) is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 45m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by earthen banks and hedges. The font (WX042-032003-) from this site is now (WX042- 033002-) at the remains of the Roman Catholic church at Ballykelly (WX042-033001-), c. 600m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 May, 2103

• WX042-032003 Font
  Description

  The rectangular granite font (ext. dims 0.64m x 0.6m; H 0.41m; int. dims 0.43m x 0.42m; D c. 0.3m) from Kilmacree church (WX042-032001-) is now (WX042-033002-) at the remains of a Roman Catholic church at Ballykelly (WX042-033001-), c. 600m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload 28 May, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Graveyard/cemetery, 1766–1980 · Regional interest
  Description

  Graveyard with collection of lichen-spotted markers, ob. 1766-1980. Set in unkempt grounds.

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 Kilmacree, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3059 (ZIP).

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

Name

Kilmacree · Cill Mhic Croí

Area

445,455 m² (44.55 ha, 110.07 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacree, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Killinick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

927 people lived in 339 households in the Killinick electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfinoge Little, Ballykelly, Grange, Killugger, Orristown, Stephenstown

Placenames

Kilmacree 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.