Kilcavan Upper

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcavan Upper, from 1 m² to 296,278 m² (29.63 ha, 73.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Kilcavan 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.

• 14 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage with

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260449

• 26 Mar 2024N/a

  Permission for retention of the construction of a two-storey dwelling house

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240327

• 5 May 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220590

• 13 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associa

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211444

• 30 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a single storey extension to the rear of our existing split

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210665

• 8 Jun 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a two storey extension to our existing one storey dwelling w

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200594

• 25 May 2018Granted (unconditional)

  1) THE COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED TO SUB-FLOOR LEVEL AND PREVIOUSL

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20130582

• 17 Feb 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20170178

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 Kilcavan Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WX007-011 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the bottom of the NW-facing slope of Tara Hill. The top of the stone (H 0.25m) is protruding through the top of a field bank (H c. 1m) and appears to be oriented E-W. 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

• WX007-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of the NW-facing slope of Tara Hill. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims. 31m NE-SW; 28m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 6m; int. H 0.5m; max. ext. H 1.8m) with bushes, which has an external fosse (Wth of top 4.5m at SE to 7m at NW; Wth of base 2m; D 0.3m) E-S and W-N. There is an outer bank (Wth 4m; H 0.5m) W-N (max. ext. diam. 43m NW-SE). There is no visible entrance, and the fosse and outer bank are incorporated into a SE-NW stream at NE, and curtailed by an E-W field bank 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. Date of upload/revision: 15 March, 2012

• WX007-053 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on a fairly gentle NW-facing slope at the base of Tara Hill. A stone is aligned NE–SW (dims. 0.7m x 0.5m; H 1.1 m). 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: 16 March 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kilcavan Upper, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilcavan Upper.

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

Name

Kilcavan Upper · Cill Chaomháin Uachtarach

Area

1,124,409 m² (112.44 ha, 277.85 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcavan, 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

Ballinacarrig, Ballinglin, Ballywilliam, Cullenoge, Kilcavan Lower, Tarahill

Placenames

Kilcavan 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.