Kilcowan Upper

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcowan Upper, from 2,695 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres) to 106,715 m² (10.67 ha, 26.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Kilcowan 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Kilcowan Upper 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 Kilcowan Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WX046-040 Moated site
  Description

  Marked as a rectangular embanked or moated enclosure (ext. dims c. 60m N-S; c. 60m E-W) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Is situated at the W edge of a plateau that slopes down slightly to a N-S stream c. 80m to the W. This is a rectangular grass-covered area (dims. 44m N-S; 43m E-) defined by back-illed moats (Wth 6-3m; D 0.2-.6m), the outer edges of which are marked by field banks and hedges with a N-S farm lane on the E side (ext. dims 65.5m N-S; 59m N-S). (Barry 1977, 222, WX 74) 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: 20 August, 2013

• WX046-041001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Kilcowan in Bargy was held in wardship by Peter Keting in 1247 and in 1307 Nicholas de Keying held it by half a knight’s fee from the Bigod estate (Brooks 1950, 37). By the 16th century Kilcowan in Bargy seems to have passed to the Keatings of Kilcowanmore or Ballybrennan in Bantry (WX031-009----). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Oliver Keating owned the castle and 240 acres at Kilcowan in 1640 and a total of 755 acres in Kilcowan parish (Simington 1953, 157). The castle is depicted faintly as a rectangular structure (dim. c. 10m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and it is situated on a level, low-lying landscape with a NNE-SSW stream c. 20m to the W. John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 records that it was levelled c. 1825 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 78). There is local knowledge of an area of rubble found when it was cleared of scrub. There are no visible remains at ground level. 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: 20 August, 2013

• WX046-041002 Structure
  Description

  Oliver Keating was the owner of the manor of Kilcowan at the time of his death in March 1629 (Jeffrey 1979, 78-9). This consisted of a castle (WX046-042001-), a hall, an orchard, a messuage or house and appurtenances, and at least two cottages. The hall is probably no more than a stone house and might have been what was described as a tower in another inquisition in 1631 (ibid. 79). Being described as a hall it would be close to the castle and could be regarded as attached to it. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 August, 2013

• WX046-041003 Courtyard
  Description

  According to an inquisition held in New Ross on October 19th 1631 Arthur Keating, the son of Oliver Keating, possessed a court, which may have been a bawn of the castle (WX046-041001-) at Kilcowan (Jeffrey 1979, 78-9). Its location is not known, but it would be close to the castle. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 August, 2013

• WX046-071 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  According to an inquisition held in Wexford town on October 9th 1629 Oliver Keating, possessed a watermill and other property at Kilcowan (Jeffrey 1979, 78-9). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) his grandson Oliver Keating owned two watermills and other property at Kilcowan in 1640 (Simington 1953, 163). A grist mill is located in Kilcowan Upper on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map c. 80m N of the moated site (WX046-041----), but it cannot be demonstrated that an earlier mill is located on the site of the 19th century three bay, four storey mill. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 August, 2013

• WX046-074 Walled garden
  Description

  Oliver Keating was possessed of the manor of Kilcowan at the time of his death in March 1629 (Jeffrey 1979, 78-9). This consisted of a castle (WX046-042001-), a hall (WX046-042002-), an orchard, a messuage (WX046-068----) or house and appurtenances, and at least two cottages (WX046-069----; WX046-070----). The site of the castle was at the W edge of a rectangular wooded area (dims c. 100m E-W; c. 25m N-S) as depicted on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and this area is known locally to have been an orchard before it was removed. It cannot be certain that this is on the site of the original orchard, or that it was defined by a wall. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 August, 2103

Architectural heritage

• Mill (water), 1842–1868 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay three-storey mill with half-attic, extant 1868, on a rectangular plan originally detached. Now disused. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with pressed or rolled iron ridge, and no rainwater goods surviving on limewashed rendered red brick header bond eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed rendered coursed rubble stone walls with flat iron serpentine tie bars; evidence of slate hung surface finish to side (south) elevation. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing six-over-six timber sash windows or timber boarded fittings (half-attic). Set in shared grounds in hollow.

• Farm house, 1842–1868 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1868, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay single-storey projecting porch to ground floor; single-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey lower return (west). Occupied, 1911. Part refenestrated, ----. Pitched slate roof abutting pitched slate roof (west) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having shallow stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, lichen-spotted coping to gable (west) with abbreviated chimney stack to apes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on limewashed rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Limewashed lime rendered battered wall to front (east) elevation; rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings to "cheeks" with concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (west) with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes originally six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in shared grounds in hollow.

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 Kilcowan Upper, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2920 (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 Kilcowan Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Kilcowan Upper · Cill Chomháin Uachtarach

Area

395,086 m² (39.51 ha, 97.63 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcowan, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Kilcowan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

525 people lived in 204 households in the Kilcowan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Hooks, Kilcowan Lower, Muchtown, Newhouse, Ralphtown, Yoletown

Placenames

Kilcowan 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.