Hooks

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hooks, from 10,784 m² (1.08 ha, 2.66 acres) to 382,809 m² (38.28 ha, 94.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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 Hooks 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.

• 12 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development which will consist of: the extension of the

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241547

• 25 Nov 2024N/a

  Permission for development which will consist of: the extension

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241453

• 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 the townland of Hooks.

Recorded monuments

• WX046-042001 Church
  Description

  Located on a slight W-facing slope in the valley of N-S stream. This is an early ecclesiastical church site and the parish church of Kilcowan within a subrectangular graveyard (dims 39.5m NW-SE; 32m NE-SW) defined by masonry walls and hedges. It was the church of St. Cuán of Aribhre, who was a contemporary of St. Munna of Taghmon (WX041-008003-) and who raised Ceallachán, the son of the king of the Fothairt (Forth barony) (Ó Riain 2011, 239). His feast day was on the 10th July, but St. Cuan's Well is c. 2 km to the NNE is Longridge townland. The church of Kilcogan in Bargy was one of those granted by Hervey de Montmorency to Christchurch Abbey in Canterbury when he entered it as a monk c. 1183 (Brooks 1950, 37). These churches were granted in turn to the Cistercian abbey of Tintern (WX045-029001-) in 1245 (Hore 1900-11, vol. 2, 27), and Kylcohan is listed amongst Tintern’s possessions at the Suppression in 1540 (ibid. vol. 2, 81; White 1943, 360). According to a Visitation by Thomas Ram, the Protestant bishop of Ferns, in 1615 the vicar Patrick Kelly was guilty of adultery and deprived of office but the state of the church is not mentioned (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 268). The church is a rectangular structure defined by grass covered wall foundations (ext. dims 18m plus E-W; 6.8m N-S). Only the W wall and the adjacent part of the S wall with an elliptical-headed doorway (Wth 0.82m; H 1.67m) survive to a height of 2.3m. There is a granite bullaun stone (dims 0.88m x 0.66m; H 0.23m) with a single basin (dims 0.34m x 0.32m; D 0.2m) set in the ground outside the NW corner of the church. The church and graveyard are towards the E edge of a larger oval ecclesiastical enclosure (diam. c. 160m E-W; c. 110m N-S) defined by field banks W-N-SE, and the cropmark of a bank and outer fosse with a narrower inner drain SE-W, which are visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP, AVK 79, AYK 18). The field bank defining the perimeter of the enclosure has been removed SW-N. Archaeological testing (12E0245) c. 70m E-SE of the graveyard and just outside the ecclesiastical enclosure failed to produce any related material (Cleary 2012). See this web-page access on 15/03/2016: http://www.excavations.ie/report/2012/Wexford/0023608/ (Culleton 1999, 127) 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 revision: 20 August, 2013 Amended: 15 March 2016

• WX046-042002 Castle - motte
  Description

  Kilcowan was held by the service of half a knight’s fee from the Bigod estate. It was held in wardship by Peter Keting in 1247 and by Nicholas de Ketyng in 1307 (Brooks 1950, 37). The motte would have been the centre of the holding until the castle (WX046-041----) was established c. 220m to the NNE. The motte is situated on a level landscape c. 15m E of a canalised NNE-SSW stream and just within the perimeter of the ecclesiastical enclosure (WX046-042005-) of the early church site at SW. This is a flat topped earthen mound (diam. of top 8m; diam. of base 17m; H 3.6m) overgrown with scrub. It has no visible fosse, and a pit is excavated on the summit. 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

• WX046-042004 Graveyard
  Description

  Located on a slight W-facing slope in the valley of N-S stream. The early church and the parish church of Kilcowan (WX046-042001-) is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims 39.5m NW-SE; 32m NE-SW) defined by masonry walls and hedges. The bullaun stone (WX046-042006-) is set in the ground just NW of the church. Archaeological testing (12E0245) c. 70m E-SE of the graveyard and just outside the ecclesiastical enclosure failed to produce any related material (Cleary 2012). See this web-page access on 15/03/2016: http://www.excavations.ie/report/2012/Wexford/0023608/ Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of amended upload: 20 August, 2103

• WX046-042005 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Located on a slight W-facing slope in the valley of N-S stream. The church (WX046-024001-) and graveyard (WX046-042003-) of Kilcowan are towards the E edge of a larger oval ecclesiastical enclosure (dims c. 160m E-W; c. 110m N-S) defined by field banks W-N-SE and the cropmark of a bank and outer fosse with a narrower inner drain SE-W, which are visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP, AVK 79, AYK 18). The field bank defining the perimeter of the enclosure has been removed SW-N. The motte (WX046-042002-) is just inside the perimeter of the enclosure at SW. Archaeological testing (12E0245) c. 70m E-SE of the graveyard and outside the ecclesiastical enclosure failed to produce any related material (Cleary 2012). See this web-page access on 15/03/2016: http://www.excavations.ie/report/2012/Wexford/0023608/ Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of amended upload: 15 March, 2016

• WX046-042006 Bullaun stone
  Description

  There is a granite bullaun stone (dims 0.88m x 0.66m; H 0.23m) with a single basin (dims 0.34m x 0.32m; D 0.2m) set in the ground outside NW corner of Kilcowan church (WX046-042001-) within the graveyard (WX046-042004-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 August, 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Hooks, 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.

No address of the register names Hooks with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Hooks · Na Corráin

Area

473,331 m² (47.33 ha, 116.96 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcowan, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Kilcowan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

525 people lived in 204 households in the Kilcowan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kilcowan Lower, Kilcowan Upper, Pembrokestown, Richfield (Reclaimed), Yoletown

Placenames

Hooks 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.