Kilgorman

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilgorman, from 237 m² to 88,187 m² (8.82 ha, 21.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Kilgorman 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.

• 13 Jul 2026Refused

  Permission for the following works: a) an extension to the existing holiday park

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260928

• 3 Mar 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of coastal protection works, consisting of the

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260255

• 16 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for ancillary and upgrade works to an existing playing field area,

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251661

• 26 Feb 2024N/a

  Permission for the construction of coastal protection works to be carried out

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240196

• 11 Feb 2022Refused

  Permission for the provision of 7 number new mobile home sites, relocation of 1

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220183

• 25 Jan 2022N/a

  Permission for the provision of 7 number new mobile home sites, relocation of 1

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220079

• 3 Dec 2021N/a

  Permission for the provision of 7 number new mobile homes sites, relocation of 1

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211889

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilgorman River Marsh 001834

Recorded monuments

• WX007-015001 Church
  Description

  Located at the crest of a small hill c. 250m S of the NW-SE Kigorman River, and c. 250m from the sea which is to the SE. This is the Parish church of Kilgorman in the diocese of Dublin, named after St. Gorman, whose pattern was on 25th October, according to John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 2–3) who mentions the remains of a church, now no longer evident. According to a Visitation by Thomas Ram, the Protestant bishop of Ferns, in 1615 Jacob Malone was the priest, but the condition of the church building was not recorded (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 273). The subrectangular graveyard (dims. c. 55m N-S; c. 40m E-W) is defined by an earthen bank, and it has a raised central area (dims 23m E–W; 18m N–S). There is a recumbent graveslab with a ringed cross in relief within the graveyard. The mound site (WX007-046----) is c. 20m to the SE, and the site of Kilgorman Well (WX007-015003-) is c. 20m outside the graveyard at SW. 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: 15 March 2012 Amended: 4 Sep. 2013

• WX007-015002 Graveyard
  Description

  Located at the crest of a small hill c. 250m S of the NW-SE Kigorman River, and c. 250m from the sea which is to the SE. The Parish church of Kilgorman (WX007-015001-) was within the subrectangular graveyard (dims. c. 55m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by an earthen bank. It has a raised central area (dims. 23m E-W; 18m N-S), and there is a graveslab (WX007-015004-) within the graveyard. The mound site (WX007-046----) is c. 20m to the SE, and the site of Kilgorman Well (WX007-015003-) is c. 20m outside the graveyard at SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 March, 2012

• WX007-015003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as the site of Kilgorman Well, and located towards the bottom of the S-facing slope of a small hill and c. 10m outside the boundary of the graveyard (WX007-015002-). The sea-shore is c. 230m to the SE, but there is no visible evidence of a well. Little is known of St. Gormán except that his feast was celebrated on 25 October (Ó Riain 2011, 369), but even this had long been forgotten at Kilgorman according to John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 3). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 August, 2012

• WX007-015004 Graveslab
  Description

  There is a wedge-shaped graveslab (dims. 2.05m x. 0.75-0.95m) with a ringed cross in relief (H 1.9m; Wth 0.8m) within the graveyard (WX007-015002-) of Kilgorman church (WX007-015001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 March, 2012

• WX007-046 Mound
  Description

  John O'Donovan, writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan, 1933, vol. 1, 3), records a mound (diam. of base. c. 18m; H c. 4m) about 'a hundred paces' SE of church site (WX007-0150001-) and a circular feature (diam. c. 20m) is marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map c. 20m SE of the graveyard (WX007-015002-), although it might be a sand-pit. It is not visible at ground level, but the monument may have been a motte. 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: 15 March, 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilgorman.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Kilgorman.

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

Name

Kilgorman · Cill Ghormáin

Area

219,360 m² (21.94 ha, 54.21 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgorman, and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Kilgorman, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Ahare, Clones Upper, Kilbegnet

Placenames

Kilgorman 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.