Hill
Hill is a townland in the civil parish of Kilturk, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Cnoc.
- Area
- 64.2 ha
- 159 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 3,718 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hill, from 329 m² to 107,257 m² (10.73 ha, 26.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Hill 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
14 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of extension to GAA Clubrooms and all associated
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260031
17 Dec 2025N/a
Permission for the construction of extension to GAA
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251683
11 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of existing shed
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250975
7 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the installation of a private bore well to serve a proposed
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230215
10 Feb 2023Refused
Permission for the proposed construction of a new vehicular entrance
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230128
9 Feb 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of a domestic garage
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230119
19 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced new dwelling house and a domesti
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220504
25 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of an All Weather Outdoor Training facility and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210079
14 Jan 2021N/a
Permission for the construction of 1) An all-weather outdoor training facility a
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210042
6 Dec 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO AN EXISTIN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181683
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 Hill.
Recorded monuments
- WX047-141 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a slight W-facing slope. The cropmark of an enclosure defined by an inner (diam. c. 30m) and outer (diam. c. 50m) fosse features is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (3) 21-5). This may be the rath called the Rath of Ragow in the description of the boundary between Kilturk and Kilmore parishes in the Civil Survey (1654-6) (Simington 1953, 130). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 October, 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Hill.
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 Hill, about 1 in 20 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Hill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Hill · An Cnoc
- Area
- 641,905 m² (64.19 ha, 158.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilturk, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bargy
- Electoral division
- Kilmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,469 people lived in 925 households in the Kilmore electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballask, Ballybought, Ballyseskin, Knocknoran, Lannagh, Tullabards Great
- Placenames
- Hill 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.