Wilton

85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Wilton, from 195 m² to 317,772 m² (31.78 ha, 78.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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 Wilton 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.

• 26 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission for alteration to previously approved planning permission Reg No.

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20261129

• 16 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)

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

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260461

• 12 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20201174

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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

• WX025-025 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as a circular wooded enclosure on the 1839 (diam. c. 55m) and the 1924 (diam. c. 45m) eds of the OS 6-inch map, and located on a W-E spur with the SW-NE Boro River c. 300m to the S and Wilton Castle on the other side of the river c. 500m to the E. This is a circular wooded area (diam. 46m N-S) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 3-4.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.8-1.1m) with an external fosse (Wth of top 3.5-4.5m; D 0.5m). There is no visible entrance, and it is probably a landscape feature. 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: 3, July, 2012

• WX025-026001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In 1247 William de Denne held the barony of Kayer by the service of three knights (Colfer 2002, 104), but in 1376 the castle of Keyer, also called Cloghnakayer, was granted to Stephen Furlong. The fief passed to the Butlers at some time in the 16th century (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 560-1) and in 1641 an estate of 2800 acres in Clonmore parish, including the castle at Keyer, was the property of Pierce Butler (Simington 1953, 222). The Butler land was in Keyer (Wilton), Clonmore, Edermine, and Ballilane (Ballyelland?). William Alcock acquired the lands in 1695 from Capt. Robert Thornhill who had been granted the forfeited Butler lands. Alcock built a house which was replaced by the present Gothic mansion in 1840 to a design of Daniel Robertson of Kilkenny. This house was burnt in 1923 but the ruin still survives (Bence-Jones 1988, 285). (Jeffrey 1979, 205 6) The location of the castle of Keyer is not certainly known, but the present Wilton Castle is situated on a platform overlooking the SW-NE Boro River at a point where it turns N, with the stream immediately to the W. There is no evidence of an older structure in the ruin. 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: 3, July, 2012

• WX025-026002 House - 17th century
  Description

  William Alcock acquired the land of the old Keyer fief in 1695 from Capt. Robert Thornhill who had been granted the forfeited Butler lands in the Cromwellian period. Alcock built a house (Jeffrey 1979, 205 6) which was replaced by the present Gothic mansion in 1840 to a design of Daniel Robertson of Kilkenny. This house was burnt in 1923 but the ruin still survives (Bence-Jones 1988, 285). The location of the castle of Keyer is not certainly known, but Alcock’s house is probably on the same site as the present Wilton Castle. This is situated on a platform overlooking the SW-NE Boro River at a point where it turns N, with the stream immediately to the W. There is no evidence of an older structure in the ruin. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3, July, 2012

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Five-arch road bridge over river, extant 1840. Part creeper- or ivy-covered walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers having moss-covered pyramidal capping with rubble stone soldier course coping to parapets. Series of five segmental arches with part creeper- or ivy-covered voussoirs. Sited spanning Boro River with unkempt banks to river.

• Wilton Castle, country house, 1835–1845 · National interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey over basement country house, built 1838-44, on an asymmetrical plan with single-bay three-storey advanced end bays; six-bay two-storey Garden Front (south). Occupied, 1911. Burnt, 1923. Now in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds.

• Wilton Castle, farmyard complex, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, extant 1840, on an L-shaped plan about a courtyard including (north): Attached four-bay single-storey stable outbuilding with half-attic on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Hipped and pitched slate roof with clay or terracotta ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods surviving on slate flagged eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast walls over coursed or snecked rubble stone construction. Square-headed door openings with cut-granite thresholds, and cut-granite surrounds centred on fluted keystones framing timber boarded doors. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber pivot fittings having square glazing bars. Square-headed openings (half-attic) with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing louvered timber fittings; (east): Attached three-bay single-storey coach house with half-attic on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched and hipped slate roof with clay or terracotta ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods surviving on slate flagged eaves. Fine roughcast walls over coursed or snecked rubble stone construction. Series of three segmental-headed carriageways with concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds having stepped reveals framing double doors having overpanels. Square-headed window openings (half-attic) with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber fittings having square glazing bars. Set in grounds shared with Wilton Castle with piers to perimeter having cut-granite capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

• Wilton Castle, steward's house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey steward's house, extant 1840, on a square plan. Occupied, 1923. Renovated, ----, to accommodate continued private residential use. Pyramidal slate roof with clay ridge tiles centred on cement rendered chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed door opening, reclaimed cut-granite doorcase with fluted pilasters supporting dentilated segmental pediment on "triglyph"-detailed frieze on entablature framing replacement timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows replacing eight-over-eight (ground floor) or twenty-over-fifteen (first floor) timber sash windows without horns. Set in grounds shared with Wilton Castle.

• Wilton Castle, gates/railings/walls, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, extant 1840, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of lichen-covered granite ashlar piers on cruciform plans on moulded cushion courses on plinths having "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornices on "triglyph"-detailed friezes on entablatures below abbreviated ball-finial topped capping. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Wilton Castle.

• Wilton Castle, walled garden, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden, extant 1840, on a square plan with part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter having moss-covered rendered rounded coping. Now disused. Road fronted on a corner site opposite entrance to grounds of Wilton Castle.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Wilton.

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

Name

Wilton · Caor

Area

2,418,825 m² (241.88 ha, 597.7 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmore, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Bree, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bree electoral division: 1,509 people in 508 households; 89% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybuckley, Ballynapierce, Bridgetown, Carrig, Carrigmacoge, Clough, Coolteige, Craane, Dunanore, Garr, Park, Stonepark

Placenames

Wilton 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.