Killowen Lower
Killowen Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Kilgorman, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Cill Eoghain Íochtarach.
Parcel 414289
- Area
- 4,378 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 40 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
- Killowen Lower
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 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 111.2 ha
- 275 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 3,902 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killowen Lower, from 126 m² to 200,072 m² (20.01 ha, 49.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Killowen Lower 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
29 Apr 2026Refused
Permission for retention for the replacement of historical mobile home with
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260527
13 Jul 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a steel framed shed for the purpose of vintage car storage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230807
30 Jun 2021Refused
Permission is sought to erect a storage shed for the storage of vintage cars and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211028
3 Jun 2021Refused
Permission to 1) demolish existing extension, 2) erect an extension to dwelling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210867
10 Jul 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A TWO-STOREY DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190983
9 Jul 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND TO CONSTRUCT A TWO-STOREY
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190967
17 Jun 2019N/a
PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH AN EXISTING SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT DWELLING HOUSE AND TO
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190838
11 Mar 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONVERT THE CURRENT PROPERTY FROM A BUNGALOW TO A DORMER DESIGN. T
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190302
18 Feb 2019N/a
PERMISSION TO CONVERT CURRENT PROPERTY AT STONEY PATH FROM A BUNGALOW TO A
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190200
21 Jan 2019N/a
PERMISSION TO CONVERT CURRENT PROPERTY FROM A BUNGALOW TO A DORMER DESIGN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190057
19 Nov 2018N/a
PERMISSION TO CONVERT FROM A BUNGALOW TO A DROMER DESIGN. THE CONVERSION WILL
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181582
5 Nov 2018Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT A TWO-STOREY DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181526
1 Dec 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH AN EXISTING EXTENSION, ERECT A NEW EXTENSION AND CARRY OU
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171570
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 Killowen Lower.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Killowen Lower.
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1820, on an L-shaped plan with two-bay (south) or single-bay (north) two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1901. Sold, 1902. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1918. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on limewashed rendered slate flagged eaves. Limewashed lime rendered walls. Hipped segmental-headed central door opening with timber mullions supporting carved timber cornice, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights below overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors. Set in landscaped grounds with limewashed rendered piers to "cottage garden" having abbreviated pyramidal capping supporting flat iron gate.
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 Killowen Lower, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killowen Lower.
- 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 Killowen Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Killowen Lower · Cill Eoghain Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,112,385 m² (111.24 ha, 274.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgorman, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Kilgorman, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 890 people lived in 297 households in the Kilgorman electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloneranny, Killowen Upper, Kilmichael, Kilmurry Middle (Co. Wicklow), Kilmurry Upper (Co. Wicklow), Monagarrow Little, Monagarrow Lower
- Placenames
- Killowen Lower 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.