Kereight
Kereight is a townland in the civil parish of Kilpatrick, barony of Shelmaliere East, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Chaoraíocht.
Parcel 408008
- Area
- 1,208 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 148 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
- Kereight
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 100.2 ha
- 248 acres
- Land parcels
- 49
- registered freehold, median 4,807 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kereight, from 109 m² to 124,429 m² (12.44 ha, 30.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Kereight 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
1 Jul 2026N/a
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260862
7 Apr 2026N/a
Permission for retention for the construction of a lake and all associated site
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260414
16 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251156
27 May 2025Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and a domestic
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250621
7 May 2024Refused
Permission for retention for the construction of a lake and all associated site
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240507
14 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of changes to an existing dwelling house
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240278
25 Feb 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF GARAGE WITH LOFT STORAGE SPACE, COVERED WALKWAY
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190231
19 Dec 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE BUILDING WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORK
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181761
8 Dec 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE BUILDING (INCLUDING A GENERAL PURP
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161358
7 Sept 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT TWO SMALL SINGLE STORY EXTENSIONS, ONE 10M2 TO THE EAST
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161001
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 Kereight.
Recorded monuments
- WX037-085 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a broad N-S ridge. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a narrow fosse feature is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX037-085_1 to _3) taken in 2006. It is bisected by an E-W field bank and is not visible on the S side of this in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 December, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kereight.
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 Kereight, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kereight.
- 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 Kereight with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Kereight · An Chaoraíocht
- Area
- 1,001,918 m² (100.19 ha, 247.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilpatrick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelmaliere East
- Electoral division
- Kilpatrick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 762 people lived in 260 households in the Kilpatrick electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydicken Upper, Ballywater, Garrywilliam, Kavanaghspark, Kyle Upper, Mountanna, Newcastle Lower, Newcastle Upper
- Placenames
- Kereight 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.