Kellystown
Kellystown is a townland in the civil parish of Drinagh, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Cheallaigh.
Parcel 387207
- Area
- 4,772 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 531 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Kellystown
Planning applications on this parcel
20 Jan 2026N/a
Planning permission for structural alterations and the extension of an existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260059
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3058 (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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 37 ha
- 91 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 2,535 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kellystown, from 126 m² to 159,544 m² (15.95 ha, 39.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kellystown 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
20 Jan 2026N/a
Planning permission for structural alterations and the extension of an existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260059
7 May 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a new club house incorporating
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240511
28 Nov 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a single storey extension to side of existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231421
6 Sept 2023Refused
Permission for the proposed erection of a new club house
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231067
25 May 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of single-storey extensions to the rear and side
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230590
15 Oct 2020Refused
Permission for the construction of a 2.47 ha commercial yard, to permit the park
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201193
5 Oct 2020N/a
Permission for the construction of a 2.47 ha commercial yard to permit the
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201139
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 Kellystown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kellystown.
Architectural heritage
- Drinagh Lodge, farm house, 1780–1785 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1782, on an L-shaped plan; single-bay (south) or two-bay (north) two-storey side elevations. Hipped fibre-cement slate roof on an L-shaped plan with concrete ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on slightly overhanging timber boarded eaves. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Segmental-headed central door opening with step threshold, bull nose-detailed timber doorcase, and concealed dressings having concave reveals framing timber boarded double doors having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed cast-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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Kellystown, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3058 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kellystown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Kellystown · Baile Uí Cheallaigh
- Area
- 369,567 m² (36.96 ha, 91.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drinagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Drinagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,114 people lived in 404 households in the Drinagh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Blackhorse, Pollbrean, Rowestown, Sinnottstown
- Placenames
- Kellystown 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.