# Hooks, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilcowan, barony of Bargy, Co. Wexford; in Irish Na Corráin.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 473,331 m² (47.33 ha, 116.96 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 36,108 m² (3.61 ha, 8.92 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilcowan, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/kilcowan.md
- Barony: Bargy
- Electoral division: Kilcowan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/53974
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 241332
- Centre: latitude 52.225178, longitude -6.597 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

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); 6 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 392002: 382,809 m² (38.28 ha, 94.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/392002.md
- Parcel 386655: 55,087 m² (5.51 ha, 13.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/386655.md
- Parcel 405367: 17,130 m² (1.71 ha, 4.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/405367.md
- Parcel 4967041: 10,784 m² (1.08 ha, 2.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4967041.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

3 applications, newest first.

- 12 Dec 2024, Wexford County Council 20241547: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for development which will consist of: the extension of the. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/128249
- 25 Nov 2024, Wexford County Council 20241453: N/a. Permission. Permission for development which will consist of: the extension. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/128146
- 11 Sept 2023, Wexford County Council 20231080: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for a ten year planning permission for a renewable energy. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/125953

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Hooks.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- WX046-042001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX046-042001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX046-042002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX046-042004-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX046-042005-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX046-042006-. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2886.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wexford/hooks.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/hooks.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/hooks.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Hooks with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Kilcowan Lower: https://everytownland.com/wexford/kilcowan-lower.md
- Kilcowan Upper: https://everytownland.com/wexford/kilcowan-upper.md
- Pembrokestown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/pembrokestown-241861.md
- Richfield (Reclaimed): https://everytownland.com/wexford/richfield-reclaimed.md
- Yoletown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/yoletown-242314.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/wexford/hooks
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/hooks