Kilcowan Lower

Area

169,749 m² (16.97 ha, 41.95 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

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

Kilcowan Lower

Planning applications on this parcel

• 11 Sept 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a ten year planning permission for a renewable energy

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231080

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

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 4 recorded monuments.

• 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

• WX046-074 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

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 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2886 (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.